In tough times, influential women unite to inspire one another
By Caroline Tanner Medill Reports CHICAGO – “Every woman is a pioneer,” rang loudly through the Chicago Theatre on October 24, during a night of
Chicago artists let their freak flags fly at Halloween Arts in the Dark parade
By Naomi Waxman Medill Reports Chicago celebrated the wicked, the wild and the weird Saturday, as artists from across the country strutted their stuff before
Chicago police to roll out body cameras ahead of schedule
By Em Steck Medill Reports The Chicago Police Department says it will roll out its body camera program across all districts before the end of
From YouTube consumer to vlogger, David Budimir taps back to his sixth-grade roots
By Caroline Tanner Medill Reports WASHINGTON, DC — A content marketer for a D.C.-based tech company by day, Columbia Heights resident David Budimir, 26, has
At 76, Chinese dance instructor lives her passion and passes it on
By Dena Khalafallah and Tiffany Chen Medill Reports At 11 years old, Jin Qui Yue discovered her passion for dance and has followed it throughout
Northwestern’s solar-powered house heads to the Solar Decathlon in Denver
By Lakshmi Chandrasekaran The house came down piece by numbered piece. In mid-September, the House by Northwestern (HBN) team dismantled the entire home they built over
NU symposium honors chemist Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff who helped win World War II
By Lakshmi Chandrasekaran Chemists Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff and Herman Pines, both immigrants to America, put their brilliant minds to work creating a special aviation fuel,
Build a better planet one photo at a time – Add yours to the global view
By Lakshmi Chandrasekaran “Think of how it wraps completely around our planet, connecting us all as one global family – living and breathing under one
Video Assistant Referee makes full MLS debut
By Sye Bennefield Jr. On Tuesday night during the 2017 MLS Homegrown match, viewers at home and on hand had the opportunity to witness the
MLS and La Liga stars hit the beach
By Sye Bennefield Jr. Imagine a Copa Del Rey Champion, a World Cup winner, a MLS Cup Champion and a Gold Cup Champion having a
Freeze-casting materials in space: Meeting the challenges of vacuums and microgravity
Northwestern University’s SpaceICE team, led by Northwestern Professor David Dunand, is preparing to test freeze-casting of materials in space, in collaboration with the University of
Severe storms lab developing remote flash flood sensing system
By Puja Bhattacharjee Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, the oldest church camp in Oklahoma, hosts more than 50,000 kids and teens who come for summer