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2 days ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg
Officials in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have instructed the National Institutes of Health staff to pause all agency awards to universities whose funding the Trump administration froze, according to an internal email verified by multiple news outlets. The email, first posted on X by Nature reporter Max Kozlov, was sent to grant management officers by Michelle Bulls, director of an NIH office that oversees compliance and manages grant policy.
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1 week ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg
Early Monday morning, Northwestern University Police responded to reports of vandalism — including “hateful” graffiti and flyers — outside University Hall and Kresge Hall. The area south of University Hall, including The Rock, was cordoned off Monday morning as NU Facilities Management removed red spray paint from the steps of the building.
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1 week ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Dov Elul |Finian Hazen |Nineth Kanieski Koso |Isaiah Steinberg
Why are student visas being taken away? What is going on with the Trump administration and the $790 million funding freeze? When will Deering Library reopen? The Daily answers these questions and recaps other top stories from the last week. DOV WEINSTEIN ELUL: On today’s episode: The federal government terminates several Northwestern student visas. The HHS cites incidents of antisemitism while confirming the Northwestern federal funding freeze.
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1 week ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg
As the Northwestern community attempts to grasp the implications of the Trump administration’s funding freeze, two University administrators advised researchers and principal investigators to delay staffing changes and reduce spending in a Friday afternoon email obtained by The Daily.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg
After reports first surfaced Tuesday that the Trump administration had frozen $790 million in federal funding from Northwestern, even the University’s top officials said they’d been left in the dark of any official communications from the federal government. But on Wednesday, further details emerged confirming the freeze.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Dov Elul |Isaiah Steinberg |Hannah Webster
April 9, 2025 In this episode, The Daily summarizes major headlines covering Prof. Steven Thrasher termination, graduate student deferral and the Evanston Mayoral Election. What is going on with Medill professor Steven Thrasher and his termination? Why are graduate students’ enrolment offers being deferred? Who won the Evanston elections? The Daily answers these questions and recaps other top stories from the last week.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Lily Ogburn |Isaiah Steinberg |David Samson |Nineth Kanieski Koso
Several current and former Northwestern students’ visas have been terminated by the Department of Homeland Security, a University spokesperson confirmed to The Daily. The spokesperson said the University learned of the terminations during a recent check of the Student Exchange Visitor Information System. The University routinely monitors the status of NU’s international students using SEVIS, according to the spokesperson.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg
President Donald Trump’s current attacks on higher education mirrors decades of conservative attempts to differentiate “equality” from “quality” in higher education, according to two recent studies co-authored by SESP Prof. Quinn Mulroy and Heather McCambly (SESP Doctorate ’21). The pair coined the term “(e)quality politics” to describe how politicians have viewed the intersection between the quality of education and equality of representation in higher education over time.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg |Miguel Tsang
To kick off Spring Quarter, the Associated Student Government Senate elected SESP freshman JJ Nabors-Moore as parliamentarian at its Wednesday meeting. “I’m excited to take this position and I have a good hope for the future,” Nabors-Moore said. Nabors-Moore, who ran unopposed, previously served as judicial pro tempore. He said he hopes to expand ASG’s judicial branch, which currently only consists of its Rules Committee.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg
About 15 students protested Tuesday evening at The Rock to demand an explanation after Northwestern canceled Medill Prof. Steven Thrasher’s Spring Quarter classes. On Monday, Medill Dean Charles Whitaker informed Thrasher in a letter that his Spring Quarter classes — an undergraduate class on LGBTQ+ health reporting and a doctoral-level seminar on public scholarship — were canceled. Whitaker also wrote that Thrasher would not be assigned classes in 2025-2026.
