THE ALUMNAE CELEBRATES 50 YEARS OF ITS CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM
pam.james
26 August, 2018 09:44 PM
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.
Nick Davis, Teaching Professorship Recipient
Alumnae Teaching Professorship Recipient, 2017
Mira Wang, Graduate Fellow
Graduate Fellowship Recipient, 2018
Mira Wang will receive a B.S. in journalism and global health and a certificate in integrated marketing communication in June, 2018, and will be a member of the first cohort of students selected to pursue a Master’s degree in Northwestern’s Accelerated Public Health Program. She wants to apply her journalism skills to address global problems related to “medicine, politics, economics, and sociocultural” forces and how these forces impact an individual’s health. Mira has particular interest in mental health. She has been an editor of North by Northwestern magazine and has served as an intern at the Midwest Asian Health Association.
Alexzandra Wallace, Graduate Fellow
Graduate Fellowship Recipient, 2018
Alexzandra Wallace graduated with a B.S. in 2009 and is currently (5-2018) in a two-year Masters Program in Learning and Organizational Change in the School of Education and Social Policy. She recognized the early importance of access to quality education and has devoted her career to developing experiential learning opportunities for K-12 students who attend the University of Chicago’s Charter and Laboratory schools. Most notably, she created the Internship for Civic Engagement through a partnership with the University of Chicago’s Office of Civic Engagement. This program emphasizes leadership development for students in the context of community-based learning. Her goal is to “empower students to think critically, problem solve, and become agents of change.”
January 15, 2019 2019 News, Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy
Read Julie Deardorff's article about Alexzandra Wallace. https://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/news-center/news/2019/01/wallace-receives-alumnae-graduate-fellowship.html
Bailey Kuhn, Graduate Fellow
Graduate Fellowship Recipient, 2018
Bailey Kuhn will receive a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science in June and her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in December 2018. She is president of the Biomedical Engineering Society and volunteers with a club that runs afterschool programs to introduce STEM topics in Spanish in Evanston-area schools. She was nominated for the Cooperative Engineering Education (Co-op) program Student of the Year, was a member of a team that designed a self-lift system, and won first place in the 2017 Mccormick Autonomous Robot Design competition. Even after finished her senior design course, Bailey has continued working to complete a prototype for an infant positioning device that will aid in a particular medical test. She also somehow finds time to be a Northwestern cheerleader!
Silma Suba, Graduate Fellow
Graduate Fellowship Recipient, 2018
Silma Suba received a B.S. in journalism and a Certificate in Integrated Marketing Communications in 2016 from Northwestern in Qatar, where she was editor-in-chief of the Daily Q. She is fluent in four languages and is as adept at digital platforms and social media as she is in traditional print media. Silma has won prizes for poetry and journalism, most notably, the Best Journalistic Writing award for a story about a portable school for Afghan refugees, published while she was in a journalism residency at the Pulitzer Center in Washington, D.C. Silma has traveled a long road from Bangladesh to Qatar to Evanston, where she will begin studies for her Masters in Journalism at Medill this fall (2018).
Maria Feiler - 2017 Alumnae of NU Undergraduate Research Scholar
pam.james
30 May, 2018 10:17 PM
Maria Feiler, 2017 Alumnae of NU Undergraduate Research Scholar presented her poster at the Northwestern Research and Arts Undergraduate Exposition (EXPO 2018) at Norris on May 30, 2018. She is a Biological Anthropology major, and her topic was "Sex, Climate and Skeltons: Variation of Sexual Dimorphism Due to Climatic Stress".
Kathleen McAuliffe, Graduate Fellow
Graduate Fellowship Recipient, 2016
Kathleen McAuliffe received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and was accepted into Medill’s Master of Science in Journalism with a Sports Media specialization. An Evans scholar as an undergrad, she achieved an almost perfect GPA. Kathleen had active leadership positions with the Evans Scholars including Philanthropy Chair , Vice President of Communications and Member of the Executive Board. She also gave back to the program by serving as a live-in camp counselor for a residential summer program in which teenage girls work to pursue an Evans Scholarship. She hopes to use her experiences in writing and editing for the White Sox and Morningstar to help her achieve success at Medill.