Jeri Ward (McCormick M.E.M. ’01, Kellogg ’01) is stepping down as Northwestern’s chief communications and marketing officer on Dec. 31, the University announced Monday. Ward, who is also vice president of the Office of Global Marketing and Communications, joined the University administration in 2018. In a news release, Ward said she is leaving to focus.
Neuroscience third-year Ph.D. student Peter Salvino has been reported missing by his family since early Sunday morning, Northwestern announced Monday in a call for community members to help locate Salvino. According to the Chicago Police Department, Salvino was last seen shortly after midnight Sunday around the 800 block of West Lill Avenue in Lincoln Park..
Zeta Tau Alpha’s Northwestern chapter is shutting down at the end of Fall Quarter, the sorority announced Nov. 17. Zeta cited low membership numbers and decreasing interest in Greek life on campus as the reasons for closure. The sorority’s National Council and NU Zeta’s current members made the decision together, according to a news release.
Jennifer Del Prete, an Illinois woman whose murder conviction was overturned after a Medill Justice Project investigation, had her retrial criminal case dismissed and all charges against her dropped Wednesday. Del Prete spent more than nine years in prison after her 2005 conviction for first-degree murder. Authorities accused her of shaking a 4-month-old child at.
When former African American studies Prof. Debra Thompson first accepted an offer a few years ago to become a political science professor at Montreal’s McGill University, she experienced mixed emotions about returning to her home country of Canada. She said she felt relief at leaving the U.S. during a turbulent political moment but also a.