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15 hours ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Jerry Wu
Only months after capping its second-most successful fundraising campaign in fiscal year 2024, Northwestern turned to the debt market in March, borrowing an additional $500 million in taxable fixed rate bonds. Weeks later, as the University now stares down a $790 million federal funding freeze, the transaction could prove even more timely.
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1 day ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Jerry Wu
University President Michael Schill joined more than 200 academic leaders in a letter, released Tuesday, condemning the Trump administration’s recent “overreach” in higher education institutions. The signatories included the heads of colleges and universities across the country who have had to grapple with the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against their campuses.
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1 week ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Jerry Wu
Northwestern officials announced Wednesday that the Department of Energy could terminate all of NU’s research awards unless it adopts a new, substantially reduced indirect research cost rate of 15% by the middle of next month. The decision marks a significant escalation by the Trump administration to take further aim at NU’s research funding, as the University reels from the aftermath of a $790 federal funding freeze last week.
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1 week ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Jerry Wu
April 11, 2025 University President Michael Schill is in Washington D.C. for a meeting today with U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon amid the Trump administration’s Tuesday freeze on $790 million in federal funds for Northwestern, according to people familiar with the matter.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Jerry Wu |Leah Schroeder
The same day the Trump administration froze $790 million in funding for Northwestern on Tuesday, more than 100 research projects have received stop-work orders from the Department of Defense since then, according to a Thursday afternoon email from University President Michael Schill.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Jerry Wu
The same day the Trump administration froze $790 million in funding for Northwestern on Tuesday, some research projects received stop-work orders from the Department of Defense. The Daily was unable to immediately confirm the total number of stop-work orders enforced at the University. Students and faculty told The Daily that the orders have mostly affected graduate departments under the McCormick School of Engineering.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Jerry Wu
The Northwestern University Graduate Workers union voted Wednesday to approve a letter urging the University to protect its non-citizen students amid the federal government’s recent terminations of NU students’ visas. The letter is set to be sent to University President Michael Schill.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Jerry Wu
Skip to Content April 8, 2025 The Trump administration has frozen $790 million in federal funding for Northwestern, The New York Times first reported on Tuesday. The freeze comes amid recent attacks on some of the nation’s elite universities by the Trump administration, with more than $3.3 billion in federal funding having been paused or completely cancelled thus far. Also on Tuesday, the administration froze more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell University.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Jerry Wu
At least one McCormick School of Engineering graduate program was told by Northwestern officials to defer the enrollment of its outstanding offers for students after closing in on its target enrollment numbers Thursday. The latest incident confirms how NU is reviewing its graduate schools to see which programs to prematurely cap incoming enrollments in the face of its budget uncertainty and research cuts from the federal government.
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3 weeks ago | 
medillonthehill.medill.northwestern.edu | Jerry Wu
Over six decades, Mark Foreman has turned to the Department of Veterans Affairs to recover from the consequences of a bullet wound to the hip sustained fighting as a Marine in Vietnam. It took endlessly long, infectious days for him to get out of deep, cavernous mountains after getting shot, three weeks straight of surgeries in Japan, and years of medical care to try to move on from his wound.
