"Beliefs aren’t facts." That would be an unremarkable title for an unremarkable column except for who wrote it. In a new column in Persuasion, Northwestern University President Morton [.]
“Beliefs aren’t facts.”
That would be an unremarkable title for an unremarkable column except for who wrote it. In a new column in
Persuasion, Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro took on the illiberal tyranny that permeates most of higher education.
Schapiro, you may remember, is the one who told his incoming freshmen to “look for safe spaces” and pledged that “if you can’t find them, we will help you find them.” Regarding traumatic ideas, Schapiro said, “If they say that…you shouldn’t be warned to prepare yourself psychologically for that, that somehow that’s coddling, those people are lunatics.” As for microaggression, he told students that those who deny the existence of microaggressions are “idiots.”
Apr 27, 2021Julianne Hill
Allen Taflove, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern Engineering who conducted pioneering work in the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, passed away at age 71 on April 25, 2021. He will be remembered for his groundbreaking research and dedication to education and advising.
Taflove’s roots at the McCormick School of Engineering ran deep, receiving his bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD here. After serving as a researcher at IIT Research Institute, Taflove returned to Northwestern and became a full professor in 1988.
In research, Taflove developed fundamental theoretical approaches, algorithms, and scientific and engineering applications of the FDTD method computational solutions of the fundamental Maxwell s equations of classical electrodynamics. He was celebrated by the IEEE, becoming the first fellow for FDTD technique work as well as receiving the group’s Electromagnetics Award. His groundbreaking research has bee
Northwestern Now
In his 22nd Conversations with the President event Tuesday (April 13) held remotely for the second consecutive year due to COVID-19 safety precautions Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro reflected on the pandemic’s impact on campus safety, what we’ve learned as an institution and where we’re headed as restrictions begin to loosen.
“I think one of the safest places in the world has been Northwestern, and we have the numbers to show that,” President Schapiro said, referencing the low positivity rate on campus since students returned for Winter Quarter (only 567 positive cases out of 145,000 COVID tests) and the increase in vaccinations received by members of the Northwestern community both on and off campus.
Part of the city’s reparations plan is to use funds from a 3 percent tax on marijuana sales to finance a $10 million initiative called the Restorative Housing Reparations program. This would oversee the distribution of $25,000 worth of housing funding per resident.
Should the housing plan pass, it would make Evanston the first city to formally issue reparations to rectify previous discriminatory housing policies.
The option of implementing reparations in the form of government investment was touted during the Black Lives Matter protests in the Summer of 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Floyd’s death, a symbol of the centuries of racist policing and law enforcement policies in the U.S., highlighted institutional racism as an insidious and lingering artifact of a time in the country when slavery was legal.