Lindsey Byman

1 week ago | northbynorthwestern.com | Lindsey Byman |McIntosh apples

As Mahdi Haseeb sat in an economics lecture during Winter Quarter, he made a mental grocery list for the way home: fennel, orange, pomegranate, almonds. Seeing the leafy fennel stalks at Whole Foods reminded him of a salad his friend’s mom made a year prior. The Weinberg fourth-year would recreate it to serve with pasta. For Haseeb, cooking offers both emotional and physical fulfillment. He “craves” a return to the kitchen after going a few weeks without a large undertaking.

3 weeks ago | northbynorthwestern.com | Lindsey Byman |McIntosh apples

Northwestern administration sent an email on May 1 saying an Arab cultural performance left it “shocked and appalled.” Students are now divided on whether the University’s attempt to protect them from “unwelcome and inappropriate political expression” represses Arab, specifically Palestinian, heritage. The school-sponsored event took place at Sargent Dining Hall on the evening of Tuesday, April 29, wrapping up Northwestern’s third annual Arab American Heritage Month celebration.

3 weeks ago | thelocalnews.news | Lindsey Byman

- Advertisement -Please Support Local Advertisers After Boxford resident Doug McIlvaine was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2019, he and his wife, Dolly, tried to re-center themselves in their service-oriented lives. Doug did not want people to pity his diagnosis, but speaking at an ALS event showed him that sharing his story was the best way he could help cure the neurodegenerative disease. “When you turn inward and feel sorry for yourself, that’s not what feeds us,” Dolly said.

1 month ago | northbynorthwestern.com | Lindsey Byman |McIntosh apples

VIDEOThis feature-style video explores why Bienen dual degree students plan to pursue non-musical careers after dedicating so much time to the instruments they love. It draws its claims from data and interviews with Bienen professors and students to tell compelling and aesthetic stories.

Sep 19, 2024 | northbynorthwestern.com | Lindsey Byman

When Rhonda Flatberg died in 2018, her best friend passed Flatberg’s sourdough starter to a mutual friend, Melissa Griffiths. Flatberg and her friends had shared the fermented culture of flour and water for some 27 years, so the novice kneader felt she needed to keep it alive. “I couldn't let it die because it was like a little piece of her,” Griffiths says. The starter, which filled half a pint jar, sat untended in Griffiths’ refrigerator for almost 18 months.