Growing up in Chicago, Kevin McLean often spent his afternoons tinkering with small creations in his grandfather’s tool shed. His interests in mechanics carried into adulthood, pushing him to become a facilities technician at Northwestern, where he worked for 14 years. “Kevin could have been successful with any career path he wanted to pursue,” said.
As the last bell rings at Orrington Elementary School, crowds of kids begin their walks home through the neighborhood. A young girl with round glasses and a big smile zooms by on a scooter and shouts, “That’s where the fairies live!” She is looking at an elaborately decorated tree located at 2608 Orrington Ave., just.
Before high school, Tanairi Cornwell said their teachers never discussed the LGBTQ+ community in class — an experience they said many incoming freshmen share. “If we’re going to have this tight community and get our students to be safe in the community, we have to know about why we are the way we are now,.
The chirping of birds, the churning of Lake Michigan, the roaring of a plane overhead — these are sounds overheard on Northwestern’s campus nearly every day, but often go unnoticed. About 30 NU students, staff and faculty met in front of the Ryan Center for the Musical Arts Tuesday afternoon to pause and truly listen.
In past winters, Scott Meier cut holes through a frozen pond to show his students the phytoplankton and zooplankton living under the ice. Meier, an Evanston Township High School biology teacher, said the exercise at the ETHS Nature Center showed students parts of the ecosystem they didn’t previously expect. “The water is actually still alive,”.