Northwestern University is receiving a $25 million grant from the Howard and Paula Trienens Fund to advance global sustainability and energy solutions at one of the University’s flagship research institutes.
Presidential inaugurations are rare events at Northwestern: Michael H. Schill is only the 17th president in the institution’s 172-year history. Inaugurations provide an opportunity to reflect on that history, while celebrating the University’s successes and laying out a vision for its future.
The Department of African American Studies celebrated its renaming to Black Studies in a Friday symposium titled “Black to Front.” In April 2008, the department voted unanimously to change its name. According to the formal name change proposal, the new title aims to better reflect “the breadth of its scholarship and teaching” by expanding beyond.
The African American Studies department will officially change its name to the Black Studies department in the next few months pending final approval by Northwestern’s Board of Trustees, according to a Thursday news release. The department’s new title aims to better reflect “the breadth of its scholarship and teaching,” according to the formal name change.
Newton Minow (Communication ’49, Pritzker ’50), a Northwestern trustee and the Walter Annenberg Professor Emeritus, died Saturday at age 97. Minow, who received the Northwestern Alumni Medal in 1978, joined the Board of Trustees in 1975 and became a life trustee in 1987. “We mourn the loss of Newt, who was a beloved member of.