The Alumnae Awards 8 STEM Scholarships for 2014-15
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Celebration Booklet - Toast to the Past and to the Future - May, 2020
The Alumnae of Northwester of University published a Celebration Booklet in conjunction with the university's celebration of 150 years of women. The booklet highlights updates from a few of the women who received its awards in past years and lists the recipients of its awards for 2020. Click HERE to read about these outstanding women and their achievements and to see names of the 2020 recipients. The Alumnae of Northwestern Univer
Sepehr Vakil
Curriculum Innovation Award Recipient, 2020
From the Office of the Provost
Sepehr Vakil, Assistant Professor, School of Education and Social Policy
“Encouraging students to critically engage with contemporary ethical challenges in computing”
"Vakil and Sarah Van Wart will develop an ethics course for undergraduate Computer Science majors. This course will provide students with the opportunity to consider the social implications of computing technologies, and the far-reaching, unintended consequences these systems might have.
The goal of this course will be to provoke and inspire students to critically engage with contemporary ethical challenges in computing. Students will analyze case studies of current and enduring socio-technical dilemmas such as bias in algorithms, surveillance technologies, applications of facial recognition technologies, privacy breaches, etc. In addition, students will use real-world datasets to examine various social values within algorithms, computational techniques, and design decisions. Through these experiences, students will learn to recognize the ethics built into the various technologies they use and understand the responsibility of software engineers to act in the interest of all those affected by their products.
Vakil’s research examines the intersections of learning, identity, race, power, and ethics in secondary and post-secondary engineering and computer science contexts."
Click here to read SESP'S announcement of The Alumnae's award to Sepehr.
Read about Sepehr in SESP's announcement of this award. https://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/news-center/news/2020/07/vakils-award-supports-ethics-in-computing-course.html
Jennifer Lackey, Sepehr Vakil, and Sarah Van Wart have been named the 2020 recipients of The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s Award for Curriculum Innovation for helping create courses for undergraduate students.
The Alumnae of Northwestern University Awards $125,000 in Grants for NU projects
EVANSTON, Ill. --- After a review of 76 proposals, The Alumnae of Northwestern University has awarded full or partial funding to 26 projects sponsored by Northwestern entities or schools, including Alice Millar Chapel, the Bienen School of Music, Block Museum of Art; Chicago Botanic Garden, School of Communication, McCormick School of Engineering, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications; Norris University Center, Office for Research, Pritzker School of Law, Public Health Program, and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
The Alumnae of Northwestern University Awards Five 2020-2021 Academic Enrichment Grants
EVANSTON, Ill. --- The Alumnae of Northwestern University has awarded funding for five programs that will bring guest artists and distinguished scholars and speakers to campus to enhance the undergraduate experience.
These intriguing programs also will be of interest to faculty, graduate students, other Northwestern community members, and, in some cases, the general public.
To read about the five recipients click HERE.
Eighteen Northwestern Students Granted 2019 Summer Internships by The Alumnae of Northwestern University
EVANSTON, Ill. --- The Alumnae of Northwestern University has selected 18 students to receive grants to fund 2019 summer internships. The Summer Internship Grant Program (SIGP) provides undergraduate students a $3,000 stipend for completing an unpaid summer internship, while simultaneously participating in a professional development program offered by Northwestern Career Advancement (NCA). The Alumnae has been a staunch supporter of the SIGP program since 2010.
Henri Lauzière
Alumnae Teaching Professorship Recipient, 2020
Henri Lauzière is Associate Professor of modern Middle Eastern history at Northwestern University. He received his PhD from Georgetown University and prior to coming to Chicago he was a postdoctoral fellow in the study of the Middle East since the First World War at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His main area of research focuses on Islamic intellectual history in 20th-century Middle East and North Africa, with a particular interest in the ways in which historians process and produce knowledge about ideas. He is the author of The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century, which came out with Columbia University Press in 2016 and has been translated into Arabic in 2018. He has also written various articles on modern Islamic thought and activism in both the Maghreb and the Arab East.
The Alumnae Gives Sr. Woman's Volunteer Service Award to Sophia Ruark
Evanston, Ill. --- Sophia Ruark is the recipient of the 2020 Senior Woman’s Service Award given by The Alumnae of Northwestern University. The award, established by The Alumnae in 2002, honors a senior woman for volunteer service during her undergraduate years at Northwestern University.
Sophia, from Grand Ledge, Michigan, a senior in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (WCAS) and at the Illinois Institute of Technology, is graduating this spring with a major in psychology and a legal studies minor.
Sophia Ruark
Senior Woman's Award for Volunteer Service Recipient, 2020
Evanston, Ill. --- Sophia Ruark is the recipient of the 2020 Senior Woman’s Service Award given by The Alumnae of Northwestern University. The award, established by The Alumnae in 2002, honors a senior woman for volunteer service during her undergraduate years at Northwestern University. Sophia, from Grand Ledge, Michigan, a senior in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (WCAS) and at the Illinois Institute of Technology, is graduating this spring with a major in psychology and a legal studies minor.
Throughout her time at Northwestern, Sophia has participated in Air Force ROTC, which has the core value of “Service Before Self.” This involvement has provided her with leadership skills, purpose, and the opportunity to earn a commission as an Air Force officer. She will be headed to Cannon Air Force in New Mexico to be a Remotely Piloted Aircraft Officer, becoming the first woman in her detachment in at least five years to do so.
Sophia became involved with a new Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP) in October 2018, beginning as an administrative assistant. The program has a special place in her heart since her father was incarcerated at different times in her life. Her tutoring at Statesville (Illinois) Correctional Center allowed her to speak directly with prisoners about their needs. She expanded her tutoring program by founding the Undergraduate Prison Education Partnership (UPEP) in 2018 and serves as its Presid. entGroups of students work to provide prisoners with reentry programming, academic support and enrichment, awareness initiatives, and more. They recently secured a $1 million sponsorship from the Mellon Foundation to expand and continue their programs.
Click HERE for the complete News Release.
Olivia Putnam
Alumnae Scholarship Recipient, 2020
Olivia Putnam has an interest in neuroscience-psychology research and has worked in a clinical psychology neuroimaging laboratory conducting her own research project. She was accepted into the Brady Scholars program, studying moral philosophy and has begun designing an Evanston-centered service project. She is also the incoming president of the Undergraduate Prison Education Partnership, which supports Northwestern's Prison Education Program's mission to bring a Northwestern education to incarcerated students in Illinois.
This is a three year award with the recipient selected by Northwestern University.