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Three faculty have been named as recipients of The Alumnae of Northwestern University's Award for Curriculum Development for 2019: James Hambleton, Megan Bang, and Shirin Vossoughi. Click HERE to read the article in Northwestern Now, January 11, 2019. (The Award was renamed the Curriculum Innovation Award by the University in the spring, 2019).
Eight Northwestern students granted STEM scholarships by The Alumnae of Northwestern University
EVANSTON, Ill. --- The Alumnae of Northwestern University has selected eight students to receive 2018-2019 Alumnae of Northwestern University STEM scholarships, which are awarded to students who excel in a STEM major (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). Criteria for selection include academic excellence and financial need. The intent of this scholarship is to free students from work commitments so they may more vigorously pursue their chosen area of study and other university endeavors.
“Our members are proud to support these talented and hard-working students pursuing STEM careers in diverse fields, allowing them to continue their studies, do research and actively participate in campus life,” said Ida Cardone, 2018-2019 chair of The Alumnae’s STEM Fellowship Committee. “It was challenging for our committee to select eight recipients from a large field of deserving applicants.”
2018-2019 Recipients:
Victoria Blaga, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences ’20, neuroscience, from West Bloomfield, Michigan, has distinguished herself at Northwestern by being on the dean’s list every quarter between Fall 2017 and Winter 2018. Further, she is a QuestBridge Scholar, a 2017-1018 STEM Scholar, and she has earned the Rensselaer Medal Award in Math and Science. She began a Ukrainian Club at Northwestern in order to bring her rich culture to campus. She plans to attend medical school and begin her own practice. She is exceptionally enthusiastic about neuroscience and wishes to make it part of her future career.
Kayla Carter, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ’20, chemical engineering, from Lake Oswego, Oregon, is a prior STEM Scholar Awardee (2017-2018). Further, she won the D. Mickelson Engineering Scholarship and the 2017 Summer Undergraduate Research Grant. She describes a devastating amount of adversity that she has overcome with resilience, strength and hope. She is committed to pursuing the area of synthetic biology and nanobiotechnological engineering research in graduate school. She also plans to advocate for women and minorities in STEM.
Claire Hilburger, McCormick ’20, biomedical engineering, from Naperville, Illinois, was awarded a University Research Assistant Program grant for summer research last year, and last quarter, she received the McCormick High Honors Award for achieving a 4.0 grade average. She is eager to pursue graduate studies. She currently works in a bioengineering lab, where she attempts to optimize artificial carriers for future use in drug delivery. She has remained fully confident in herself regardless of what she describes as societal barriers to women in STEM. She seeks to become a role model for other women with aspirations in STEM.
Phoebe (Siyoon) Kwon, Weinberg College ’20, materials science, from Scottsdale, Arizona, has distinguished herself by being on the dean’s list for all seven quarters she has been at Northwestern. She also received the J.G. Nolan Endowed Scholarship for the 2017-2018 academic year. Last summer she was part of the Posner Fellowship, where she researched synthetic organic chemistry and drug development for Human African Trypanosomiasis and was accepted into the Mayo Clinic’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Her primary goal is to attend graduate school to seek out research opportunities to find new drugs, therapeutics and technologies to enhance medical care, especially for the underserved. She independently found mentors to support her endeavors in a climate that she describes as lacking in support for women and underrepresented minorities. She is a part of the Northwestern University Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers.
Andre Schweitzer, McCormick ’20, industrial engineering, from Rio De Janeiro, hopes to simultaneously obtain a master’s degree in transportation systems. While in high school, he led a community service organization that received first place in the Brazil Prudential Spirit of Community Award competition. He was selected as salutatorian and best performing math student in his high school graduating class. At Northwestern, he was on the dean’s list three times and received two high honors in math. He hopes to work in developing economies, especially in Latin America, to create and maintain efficient transportation systems, especially in terms of logistic planning and long-term returns. He describes the challenges he has faced as an international student to “catch up” with classmates who have stronger backgrounds than he, for example, in chemistry.
Lauren Virginia Simitz McCormick ’21, chemical engineering, is from Walnut Creek, California. In high school, she was class valedictorian and received her district’s highest math award. At Northwestern, she was on the dean’s list with honors for fall and winter quarter. In freshman year, she was awarded a $4,000 grant from the Environmental Engineering Department and received a design award with her team for a solar-powered car. She was selected for the University of California Berkley’s graduate business program for aspiring entrepreneurs and aspires to be an environmental expert, investigating sustainable technology and creating green legislation. She plans to pursue graduate work abroad that focuses on the preservation of health and the planet. Being female and Native American has led to challenges for Simitz. She has sought support by working with the student government and the Society for Women Engineers.
Abigail Smith, McCormick ’21, industrial engineering, from Aurora, Colorado, was valedictorian of her high school class, received multiple departmental awards and was a four year varsity athlete. At Northwestern, she was selected to be a Murphy Scholar through the Murphy Institute within McCormick. Further, she has started her own company, RefundGenius. Through her STEM studies, she hopes to have the tools to answer difficult questions through unconventional solutions. In her first quarter of freshman year, she reports learning a vital lesson through her design class. The requirement was to overcome a problem and work as a team with a real-world client. She and her team needed to work with a plethora of professional people and make the best decisions they could.
Javan Whitney-Warner, McCormick ’20, chemical engineering, from Columbia, Missouri, is a QuestBridge, Ryan, and National Merit Scholar. Additionally, she made the dean’s list for two quarters and is an active member of Engineers for a Sustainable World’s Smart Tree Project team. She has two main goals as she pursues her studies in chemical engineering: to save the world through green technology and to improve the livelihoods of people with chronic illnesses through drug development. An important challenge for her is that no one in her family has had the education she now pursues. Further, she has a painful medical condition, but that did not prevent her from taking a significant chemistry exam – an accomplishment she considers one of her greatest while at Northwestern. rev. 6/2021
The Alumnae of Northwestern University is one of the sponsors of Pop América, 1965–1975.
Pop América, 1965–1975 challenges and reframes familiar notions of Pop Art by bringing together artists from North and South America, as well as the Caribbean. Pop América is the first exhibition to unify Latin American and Latinx expressions of Pop and explore how artists working across the hemisphere embraced its bold and colorful imagery, references to mass culture, and representations of everyday objects, signs, and symbols. The exhibition makes a timely and critical contribution to a deeper understanding of this period and the impulses behind Pop Art from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s.
Pop América features nearly 100 artworks by artists working in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and the United States, sparking an expansion and reconsideration of Pop as a U.S. and British phenomenon. The exhibition reshapes debates over Pop’s perceived political neutrality and aesthetic innovations. The artists in the exhibition create vital dialogues that cross national borders and include Antonio Dias, Rubens Gerchman, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Cildo Meireles, Marta Minujín, Hugo Rivera-Scott, and Andy Warhol, among others. United by their use of Pop’s visual strategies, these artists have made bold contributions to conceptualism, performance, and new-media art, as well as social protest, justice movements, and debates about freedom.
Pop América opened in October 2018 at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, and will be on view at the Nasher Museum at Duke University until July 2019 before traveling to the Block Museum at Northwestern University.
from https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/2019/pop-am%C3%A9rica,-19651975.html
Jay Walsh, VP of Research, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Karl Scheidt, Professor of Chemistry gave the final lecture of Spring 2019 for the New Frontiers in Science course. Karl Scheidt received The Alumnae of Northwestern University's Teaching Professorship Award from 2009-2012.
January 15, 2019 Click the link to read about 2018-19 Alumnae Graduate Fellow, Alexzandra Wallace, by Julie Deardorff. https://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/news-center/news/2019/01/wallace-recei...
From The Alumnae of Northwestern University
For Immediate Release: October 26, 2018
Dr. Maria Carrillo to Receive 2018 Alumnae Award
EVANSTON, Ill. --- Dr. Maria Carrillo, Chief Science Officer, Medical and Scientific Relations, Alzheimer’s Association National Office, Chicago, Illinois, is the recipient of The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s 2018 Alumnae Award.
The Alumnae Award recognizes a woman who has brought honor to Northwestern University through outstanding professional contributions in her field and who has attained national recognition. Established in 1976, the Alumnae Award has been presented every year to an alumna who has had a significant impact in her field of endeavor. Educators, journalists, doctors, and artists are included among The Alumnae’s roster of award recipients.
Dr. Carrillo holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology, with a minor in biology, from the University of Illinois, and a doctorate in neuroscience from the Neuroscience Institute, Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology department, Northwestern University.
Dr. Carrillo was named Chief Science Officer in 2015. Prior to that she was vice president, senior director and director, Medical & Scientific Relations, at the Alzheimer’s Association National Office. She served as an assistant professor at Rush University Medical Center’s Department of Neurological Sciences; and instructor and post-doctoral fellow at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center’s Department of Neurological Sciences.
“As Chief Science Officer of the Alzheimer’s Association, Maria Carrillo’s strategic thinking and grasp of the field have made the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) the place to be for all serious workers in Alzheimer’s disease,” notes Marek-Marsel Mesulam, Director, Cognitive Neurological Alzheimer’s Disease Center, The Ruth Dunbar Davee Professorship in Neuroscience, Feinberg School of Medicine.
“Maria has become an effective spokesperson for the importance of preclinical and clinical research to head off the approaching Alzheimer’s Disease epidemic, markedly increasing Alzheimer’s Disease federal research funding,” says John F. Disterhoft, Magerstadt Memorial Research Professor, Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. “In addition, she is an outstanding example of work/family balance and community involvement.”
For more information: Michele Bresler, President and Public Relations Chair, The Alumnae of Northwestern University. 847/869-1010; [email protected]
Dr Teresa Woodruff. Dean of The Graduate School, and Associate Provost for graduate education (as of Sept. 1, 2017), 2008 Alumnae Award Recipient
Theresa Woodruff, PhD, is the Thomas J Watkins Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, which features the latest advances in sex and gender-based medicine. Through the Women’s Health Research Institute there, science educational programs, policy efforts, and outreach activities help elevate women’s health research throughout the world. Dr. Woodruff advocates for sex inclusion in all levels of science. She has received numerous awards and honors, including a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, presented by President Barack Obama. dean of The Graduate School and associate provost for graduate education at Northwestern, effective Sept. 1.
Dr. Maria Carrillo, Chief Science Officer, Medical and Scientific Relations, Alzheimer’s Association National Office, Chicago, Illinois, is the recipient of The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s 2018 Alumnae Award.
The Alumnae Award recognizes a woman who has brought honor to Northwestern University through outstanding professional contributions in her field and who has attained national recognition. Established in 1976, the Alumnae Award has been presented every year to an alumna who has had a significant impact in her field of endeavor. Educators, journalists, doctors, and artists are included among The Alumnae’s roster of award recipients.
Dr. Carrillo holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology, with a minor in biology, from the University of Illinois, and a doctorate in neuroscience from the Neuroscience Institute, Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology department, Northwestern University.
Dr. Carrillo was named Chief Science Officer in 2015. Prior to that she was vice president, senior director and director, Medical & Scientific Relations, at the Alzheimer’s Association National Office. She served as an assistant professor at Rush University Medical Center’s Department of Neurological Sciences; and instructor and post-doctoral fellow at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center’s Department of Neurological Sciences.
“As Chief Science Officer of the Alzheimer’s Association, Maria Carrillo’s strategic thinking and grasp of the field have made the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) the place to be for all serious workers in Alzheimer’s disease,” notes Marek-Marsel Mesulam, Director, Cognitive Neurological Alzheimer’s Disease Center, The Ruth Dunbar Davee Professorship in Neuroscience, Feinberg School of Medicine.
“Maria has become an effective spokesperson for the importance of preclinical and clinical research to head off the approaching Alzheimer’s Disease epidemic, markedly increasing Alzheimer’s Disease federal research funding,” says John F. Disterhoft, Magerstadt Memorial Research Professor, Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. “In addition, she is an outstanding example of work/family balance and community involvement.”
News Release, EVANSTON, Ill.
For Immediate Release
October 26, 2018
For more information:
Michele Bresler, President and Public Relations Chair
The Alumnae of Northwestern University
847/869-1010; [email protected]
ALL ABOUT THE CELEBRATION - Click on Read more to get the latest information on the 50th. The 50 year history of The Alumnae of Northwestern University's Continuing Education program is available in the attachment on that page.
The Alumnae's celebration of 50 years of Continuing Education begins with this Special Lecture Event. You won't want to miss this opportunity to hear Sergio Rebelo! The Tokai Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance, Kellogg School of Management, will speak on "What Can We say About the Future?" The world economy is undergoing large structural transformations. This lecture includes ongoing changes in the labor and energy market, the impact of population again, and the promises and challenges associated with auromation and artificial intelligence.
Thursday, September 27, 2018, 9:30 p.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Tickets can be purchased online for $30 each through the Norris Box office. Sign up using this link: https://nbo.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event.asp?id=2360&cid=114