This year, Northwestern has received 179 awards totaling $91.9 million under the new federal stimulus program. The university says they will use the money to hire more scientists and further research.

Northwestern’s Asian Pacific American Coalition (APAC) held a forum Tuesday evening to discuss racial profiling and discrimination in employment. The event featured four panelists who spoke of their experiences and opened the floor up for questions from the audience in the Multicultural Center.
APAC organized the forum in light of the struggle between Freddie Lee and [...]

To Prajwal Ciryam, a 2006 Weinberg graduate and member of the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern, the process of applying for Fulbright grant last year through the Northwestern Fellowship Office was as important as the result itself.
“Every [Northwestern Fulbright applicant] goes through a process of identifying a [research] question, struggling with how that [...]

The scene at Sheridan and Foster at around 8 p.m. Photo by Matthew Connolly / North By Northwestern.

Updated at 8:30 p.m. with a photo.
A woman was hit by a car on Sheridan Road at around 7 p.m. this evening and taken away by ambulance, according to witnesses. An Evanston police officer at the [...]

Update: According to the Chicago Police Department, the report of a sexual assault of a student has been deemed “not bona fide,” said Alan Cubbage, vice president for University Relations, in an e-mail. The news officer of the Chicago Police Department told Cubbage that after detectives interviewed the student, they determined it to be “not [...]

After reaching a peak of $7.4 billion in April 2008, Northwestern lost a significant portion of its endowment during the fall of 2008. The recent growth of the endowment could be a sign of a slow recovery.

This was the first year Dance Marathon offered registration online. According to a press release, the organization is moving towards a paperless registration system in the future.

Of 109 applicants, 32 Northwestern students won Fulbright scholarships, more than any other school in the nation.

Located at 610 Haven Street, the Great Room, a refurbished historic dining hall which previously served as a reading room in the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, will offer food, TV and wireless access to Northwestern students. The room will be open from 5 pm to 2 am Sunday-Thursday.

Medill Innocence Project students’ notes, interviews, academic information have been subpoenaed by the Cook County state attorney’s office. Northwestern has turned over the documents related to on-the-record interviews, but is battling the subpoena on the students’ academic information.

Communication senior Alex Weisman took home the Best Actor in a Supporting Role trophy at the Jeff Awards, a Chicago theater awards ceremony. Several Northwestern alums and faculty members also won awards for work on stage and behind the scenes.

Homecoming events began Sunday with Make a Difference Day, and will include improv on Tuesday and a parade on Friday. The Grand Marshal of this year’s parade is Chicago Bears football player and Weinberg ‘07 graduate Nick Roach.

Northwestern University Press is unsure of its rights to one of the novels of Herta Müller, recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Northwestern’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions adopted a new early decision policy starting with the class of 2013, allowing applicants to be deferred to regular decision when applying early. Under the old policies, applicants were either rejected or accepted outright.
Students who get deferred and later admitted do not have the binding commitment of early decision. Deferred [...]

Hundo will close its doors at its Northwestern-owned 1800 Sherman Ave. location in March 2010. The University opted not to renew Hundo’s lease. Owner Tony Anton plans to “go out with a bang” and is looking for a new location in Evanston.