Federal funding cuts force MIT, Northwestern, and other universities to freeze hiring and reduce spending - Ex-Northwestern professor's murder conviction overturned, case sent back to trial court - Northwestern hires Villanova athletic director Mark Jackson as its new AD - Northwestern president has testy exchange during campus antisemitism hearing - Northwestern professor, whose school gave in to anti-Israel agitators, is son of notorious terrorist radicals - Northwestern being investigated by US Department of Education over accusations of campus antisemitism amid Israel-Hamas war - Police respond to reports of shots fired on Northwestern's Chicago campus