Prof. Charlie Moskos, a nationally renowned military sociologist and popular NU professor, died Saturday morning after a long battle with prostate cancer, his wife Ilca said today. He was 74. Moskos, a Princeton University and University of California Los Angeles alumnus, came to Evanston in 1966 from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.…

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UPDATED 11:18 p.m. Wednesday | ASG senators defeated a constitutional amendment to create a vice president for the organization Wednesday night but created the office by changing the ASG code, bringing a three-week long debate and amendment process to a close. The amendment failed by a vote of 23-1-4, falling four votes short of the two-thirds majority required for passage of a constitutional amendment.…

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FRIDAY 12:04 a.m. | The death of SESP freshman Matthew S. Sunshine, who was found late Tuesday morning in his Foster House dorm room, was caused by alcohol intoxication, a spokesman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's office said today. See images from a Thursday night vigil for Sunshine by clicking here.…

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Janice Frost works in a pre-K class for disabled students, where she has gained considerable experience working with autistic children. She understands the symptoms, causal factors and traditional methods of treatment. What she understands more than anything, though, is that for the boy she is currently working with, treatment is not working.…

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After 20 years of friendly and mutually beneficial relations, a lawsuit filed by the National Safety Council against Northwestern's Center for Public Safety threatens to damage the relationship between the two organizations. The NSC suit alleges that the Center for Public Safety began to offer courses not developed by the NSC after the contract between the two organizations lapsed June 5, in violation of a 90-day no-compete clause.…

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TUESDAY 8:05 p.m. | A male student was found dead late this morning inside Foster House, university officials said this afternoon. The student was identified as Matthew S. Sunshine, a SESP freshman from Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., according to an e-mail sent to the Evanston campus by Vice President for Student Affairs William Banis.…

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Northwestern students received firsthand advice Thursday from a panel of successful entrepreneurs dressed in business casual attire. These entrepreneurs have started and run multiple businesses, yet they are still undergraduates themselves. InNUvation, the club for entrepreneurship and innovation at NU, held its second Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Panel from 5 p.…

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With slightly more than five months until the presidential election, Northwestern students aren't the only people on campus involved with campaigns. At the School of Law, professors Steven Calabresi and John McGinnis serve on Sen. John McCain's Justice Advisory Committee.…

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After four years at Northwestern, economics Prof. Lillian Kamal will be leaving to pursue what she said is "a tenure-track position at a university in the Northeast." Kamal began teaching at NU in Fall 2004, right after completing graduate school. "Northwestern is a fantastic school," she said.…

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Innovation and leadership are nothing new to Adam Goodman, the Undergraduate Leadership Program's current director, who has been revamping the program's curriculum since he began work in August 2007. ULP is a certificate program that combines coursework, retreats and self-study with the goal of building leadership skills among undergraduate students.…

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Three years ago, students at Yale University and Stanford University were concerned about U.S. policies, including the war in Iraq and the state of the economy - and they decided to do something about it. They created the Roosevelt Institution, the first national nonpartisan network of student think tanks, said Weinberg sophomore Matthew Fischler.…

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For McCormick senior David Evitt, building an award-winning race car and entering it in an internationally renowned competition is simply an extension of his classroom learning experience. "It's a unique opportunity to participate in a design process," he said.…

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