• Brent E. Huffman Receives Teaching Professorship from The Alumnae of Northwestern University

    The Alumnae of Northwestern University is proud to announce that Brent E. Huffman is the recipient of its Teaching Professorship.  Huffman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and a passionate professor of documentary filmmaking. Huffman aims to train “leaders in documentary journalism who will advance the medium creatively and responsibly,” his nomination states. (excerpt from Northwestern News)
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  • Denise Bouras Receives the 2023 Curriculum Innovation Award from The Alumnae of Northwestern University

    Centering the community in advanced Spanish language curriculum - Denise Bouras is an associate professor of instruction in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Spanish and Portuguese. 
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  • Jeremy Keys Receives the 2023 Curriculum Innovation Award from The Alumnae of Northwestern University

    Re-inventing Mechanical Engineering 240: Increasing engineers’ inductive learning through product archaeologyJeremy Keys is an assistant professor of instruction in the McCormick School of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.Administered by the Office of the Provost, the award recognizes and supports faculty who have innovative ideas for new courses, methods of instruction and components of existing classes. 
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  • Carol Liu, Alumnae Scholar

    Carol Liu, from Chicago, Ill., Class of 2024, is the recipient of The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s Undergraduate Scholarship. This award, established in 1997, provides undergraduate scholarships with preference to a woman whose family member (her brother in this case) has attended Northwestern University. The three-year award, chosen by the Office of Financial Aid, honors a student in good academic standing. Carol is the 9th Alumnae Undergraduate Scholar.
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  • Continuing Education Students Learn about American Music.

    Drew Davies, Assoc. Professor, MusicologyAssoc Prof Drew Davies and Sheila Gideon, CE co-chair, Curriculum, celebrating Czech composers. Students in this The Alumnae of Northwestern University's Continuing Education Spring quarter course learn about the Second Great Awakening from Assoc. Professor of Musicology,  Drew Davies. 
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  • Peter Slevin, professor of journalism, with his doppleganger during his Continuing Education course on Dilemmas of American Power.

    Peter Slevin, professor of journalism, with his doppleganger (created by The New Yorker magazine) talking to The Alumnae's Continuing Education students about the Dilemmas of American Power. The Alumnae of Northwestern University offers Continuing Education courses open to the public Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters.  They are in-person and on-line.
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  • Nina Kraus 2022 Alumnae Award Recipient with Ann Bradlow and E. Patrick Johnson

    EVANSTON, Ill. --- Nina Kraus, Hugh Knowles Professor of Communication Sciences, Neurobiology, and Otolaryngology, is the recipient of The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s 2022 Alumnae Award. As a biologist and amateur musician, she thinks about sound and brain health. Kraus is a role model for women in science and technology.
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Mon, 12/12/2022 - 6:20pm

Tue, 02/21/2023 - 6:47pm

Click here to read about these Award Recipients and Their New Curriculum Ideas.
Wed, 12/21/2022 - 4:37pm

Alumnae Continuing Education Parking and Busing have been cancelled due to a low level of interest in the busing option. We apologize for the inconvenience. 
Mon, 10/31/2022 - 3:40pm

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Nina Kraus, Hugh Knowles Professor of Communication Sciences, Neurobiology, and Otolaryngology, is the recipient of The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s 2022 Alumnae Award. As a biologist and amateur musician, she thinks about sound and brain health. Kraus is a role model for women in science and technology. Through her diverse partnerships, her work on the effects of music experience on the nervous system has targeted African American and Latino children living in low-income areas. Her research on HIV takes place in under-resourced communities in China and Tanzania.

 

Her latest book, Of Sound Mind – How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World, which was written for the intellectually curious, has received national recognition. When talking about her book, Kraus notes in the Evanston Round Table: “This is my love-letter to sound, how sound connects us, its biological impact on making us us, and how it affects the world we live in. Sound is an underrecognized, powerful force in our lives. The hearing brain engages how we think, feel, move and integrate our other senses.” A Wall Street Journal review of the book notes: “Of Sound Mind offers a deeply scientific yet often poetic look at the hearing brain and provides an in-depth narrative about why such explorations are important.”

To read the complete news release, click here.

To visit her website, click here: brainvolts.
Fri, 09/16/2022 - 12:03pm

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