Joan Beck
Distinguished Alumnae Award Recipient, 1977
Journalist
Columnist
Ann Cameron Haley, Graduate Fellow
Graduate Fellowship Recipient, 2011
Master of Medical Science, Physician Assistants Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, June 2013
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, 2009
As an undergraduate, Ann was one of 12 students in the Greek Community to be recognized for her service to the University by her selection to the Omega Society Honor Roll in 2009. Since graduation she has served as Research Study Coordinator for Northwestern’s Department of Dermatology Clinical Trials Unit. Doctors describe her contributions to their research group as “the gold standard, based on her extraordinary performance and personal interactive skills . . . She is beautifully organized, incredibly conscientious, and full of initiative in her work . . . A true leader,” Ann has “co-lead focus groups of medical students and residents” and helped develop “ novel educational methods to train medical students in the early detection of melanoma. . . She has single handedly spearheaded a new tissue acquisition program and played a major role in at least two other particularly complex trials. . . She will be very hard for us to replace.” Over the past two years Ann has co-authored 8 peer-reviewed articles and 9 abstracts and participated in 14 scholarly presentations, clearly showing her potential to become an effective leader in her chosen field. Most importantly, “she has consistently demonstrated empathy for patients, has the utmost respect for confidentiality, and is sensitive to their needs - all characteristics which typify a compassionate, competent Physician Assistant.”
Roshni Brahmbhatt, Graduate Fellow
Graduate Fellowship Recipient, 2011
Master of Science in Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, March 2012
Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, 2011
As an undergraduate, Roshni completed the Undergraduate Leadership Certificate Program, the Business Enterprise Certificate Program, and the Cooperative Engineering Education (Co-op) Certificate. She was chosen the 2011 Northwestern University Co-op Student of the Year and the 2011 National Co-op Student of the Year. As a member of a team at Baxter, she received an Invention Award for New Patent Application for developing a device for a Home Hemodialysis System. Through the Global Healthcare Technologies Study Abroad Program, Roshni had the opportunity to study at the University of Cape Town, where she developed a breast-milk pasteurization system to prevent HIV mother-to-child transmission. It was then that she "recognized her passion for global development, especially health and environment." As she pursues her Master's she sees her "task as innovating simple solutions. . . to improve the quality of life worldwide" - an ambitious, but attainable goal for someone who was described as "a force of nature! The epitome of excellence at work, in the classroom, and in the community, an outstanding engineer and an exceptional employee, Roshni has become one of the most valued members of our team (at Baxter). She is gifted, extraordinarily hard working, and . . .will accomplish (much) in the future."
Emma Dutton, Graduate Fellow
Graduate Fellowship Recipient, 2011
Master of Science in Journalism, Medill School of Journalism, 2012
Bachelor of Science in Materials Science & Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering 2011
An undergraduate who “rates high in her class in the Department of Materials Science, one of the top five in the country,” Emma is described as “a highly motivated and enthusiastic student/researcher.” Currently she is completing an honors senior project which is based on her work with the Barnett research group. She is “extremely passionate about solving the environmental ‘puzzle’ that our society is currently facing and developing sustainable solutions for the future.. . While she could easily go on for a PhD in engineering, she is uniquely well positioned . . . to make an important impact in science- and technology-related journalism.” Her perspective on science reporting has been shaped by her own lab experience, including a month at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. By presenting “technical information in a visual manner that educates and entertains readers of all knowledge levels,” Emma hopes to bridge the “chasm between scientist and laymen.” She believes “there is a cultural shift necessary before humans will protect the environment” and hopes through her work in public media “to be a steward of said changes.”
Sandy Neville Haggart
Distinguished Alumnae Award Recipient, 2010
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, scientists, and artists are included among The Alumnae’s roster of awardees.
Sandy Haggart is Founder and Executive Director of Feed the Dream, an organization that works in partnership with the indigenous in rural Guatemala to establish and oversee nutrition programs that also provide health and hygiene education to children under five years of age and women of reproductive age. Sandy has received the Glenview Rotary Paul Harris Award, was a Volunteer Center of NE Metro Chicago Honoree and received a Chicago Tribune Remarkable Woman Honor.
Bonnie Anderson
Distinguished Alumnae Award Recipient, 2011
Bonnie Anderson – Medill 1977
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, scientists, and artists are included among The Alumnae’s roster of awardees.
Born in Cuba, Bonnie Anderson's interest in journalism began when she was a young child living in Bogota, Colombia. After graduating in 1977 from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, she worked at Florida newspapers, including The Miami Herald, and then moved into television.
Working in print, radio, internet and television in both English and Spanish, she has reported from more than 100 countries, covering stories such as the civil wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Lebanon, the famine and civil war in Ethiopia, Chernobyl, numerous international visits by Pope John Paul II, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War, the standoff in Waco, the Oklahoma bombing, the bombing during the Olympics in Atlanta and 9/11. Bonnie was a founder of CNN en Español network where, as Managing Editor, she supervised news-gathering staff. As Vice President of the CNN News Group, she recruited and coached on-and off-air personnel.
Bonnie's work on camera for local, national and international news corporations, including a decade with NBC News as an international and war correspondent, paved the way for women to follow in her footsteps. In 2000, when she was inducted into Medill's Hall of Achievement, Dean Ken Bode, a former colleague of Anderson;s, said she had "plowed and paved the road" for women to become foreign correspondents. "Bonnie Anderson covered all sorts of war zones around the world," he said. "She gained the deepest admiration of her colleagues in her service to the network and to the profession."
The winner of seven Emmy Awards, Bonnie was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and has been nominated for the Maria Coors Cabot Lifetime Achievement Award sponsored by Columbia University
In 2004 Bonnie published News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News, which reveals everything the broadcast and cable news networks do that is illegal, unethical, unprincipled and--as she says--"just plain stupid."
She currently lives in St. Croix and teaches journalism to graduate students in Brazil, where she emphasizes the importance of ethics. Bonnie;s view of journalism is that "We're not about business, we're about the truth. Journalism is pure; it is real; it is what holds a democracy together. Without pure journalism, there is no pure democracy."