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A report from Public Information Officer Cara Cruz with the Pittsburgh Police Department from Zone 1.

When people hear you’re going to Northwestern, they might think you’re going to school in Chicago. The billboards throughout the Chicagoland area that call NU “Chicago’s Big Ten Team” might lead to even more confusion. However, NU is in Evanston, and it’s important to learn about the community you’ll be entering and staying in for...

Northwestern is known for having one of the best theater programs in the country, but outside of the major, there are plenty of opportunities for students to get involved in the robust drama scene on campus.  While each board or theater group has a different petition or audition process, all are eager to recruit freshmen...

NU Prof. Fatima Khan creates online Arabic dictionary July 26, 2021 As a non-native speaker, Arabic Prof. Fatima Khan needed a good Arabic dictionary when she was a student. When she couldn’t find any, Khan decided to create one herself in 2015 for other non-native-speaking students. The project took Khan five years to complete and required her to pick up some coding skills along the way. Because Arabic is a root and pattern language, where one root could be part of many different words and used in different contexts, Khan said it can be time consuming and expensive to use a traditional dic...

Northwestern Medicine starts project to mitigate food deserts in Chicago July 20, 2021 Northwestern Medicine investigators have started a new project to mitigate food deserts and improve outcomes for patients with kidney disease in Chicago, according to a Thursday news release.  The project, which is a partnership between Northwestern Medicine’s African American Transplant Access Program, NUGoKidney and the Endeleo Institute, aims to provide those in Chicago — with an emphasis on predominantly Black communities — with access to healthy food. It will also provide support groups and educ...