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May 23, 2013
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May 23, 2013
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May 24, 2013
Conference » A Half-Decade of Crisis: Governing the Global Economy in the New Hard Times
May 24, 2013
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May 25, 2013
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May 27, 2013
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Introduction to Mindfulness - Chicago Campus
May 28, 2013
Drop-In Meditation Group - Chicago Campus
May 28, 2013
Swing Dance Lessons with the NU Swing Dance Syndicate

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ALLSSTAR Group

ALLSSTAR (Archive of L1 and L2 Scripted and Spontaneous Transcripts and Recordings) is a collaborative research project being conducted in the Speech Communication Research Group under the direction of Ann Bradlow in the Linguistics Department. The team consists of third year PhD students...

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Carl Ebeling

Carl is a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. There's a huge debate in the weather/climate/insurance/disaster mitigation communities whether global warming is increasing the frequency of hurricanes. However, the apparent increase in hurricanes...

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Cassandra Hart

Cassandra Hart is a doctoral candidate in the department of Human Development and Social Policy in the School of Education and Social Policy. Advised by David Figlio, Cassandra conducts research...

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Minna Krejci

Minna Krejci is a PhD candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, advised by Professor Derk Joester. Her research focuses on using X-ray microscopy techniques to investigate biological minerals (such as bones, shells, and teeth) and how they are formed in nature...

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Connor Doak

Connor Doak is a PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures who specializes in Russian Modernist poetry, particularly the representation of masculinity, war and revolution in Russian Futurism. His dissertation, Poetry in the Matador’s Cape: Masculinity in Vladimir Mayakovsky’s Verse...

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Elizabeth McManus

Elizabeth Berkebile McManus is a PhD candidate in the Department of French and Italian currently writing her dissertation under the guidance of Professor Michal Ginsburg. Her project examines issues of spatial perception and representation in 19th-century French culture...

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Emily Becker-Weidman

Emily Becker-Weidman is a clinical psychology Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. She works with Dr. Mark Reinecke. Her research examines cognitive, environmental, and interpersonal factors...

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Julia Rao

Julia Rao, M.S., is a clinical neuropsychology Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She works with Dr. Sandra Weintraub at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center. Julia’s research focuses on...

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Karen Chan

Karen Chan is a doctoral student in the Music Theory and Cognition program in the Bienen School of Music and a recipient of a Northwestern Advanced Cognitive Science Fellowship. Her research focuses on...

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Leigh Mesler Parise

Leigh Mesler Parise is a doctoral candidate in Human Development and Social Policy in the School of Education and Social Policy. Advised by James P. Spillane, Leigh's research interests include teacher quality, teacher learning and development, school leadership, and policy implementation. As a mixed methods researcher...

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Tamar Gefen

Tamar Gefen is a clinical psychology doctoral student specializing in the field of clinical neuropsychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. At the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center (CNADC), Tamar works under

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Tom Vose

Tom Vose is a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering studying robotic manipulation with Professor Kevin Lynch. His research focuses on very simple manipulators with surprising abilities: vibrating plates. More precisely, plates that are flat, rigid, and can be...

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Tyler Muir

Tyler is a doctoral student in the Finance department at the Kellogg School of Management. He studies under Professors Andrea Eisfeldt and Arvind Krishnamurthy. His research focuses on...

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Xiaoting Lou

Xiaoting Lou is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth and Planetery Sciences studying the structure, composition and evolution of the Earth's mantle using seismic imaging and mineral physics data from high-pressure laboratory experiments. He uses a novel facility called USArray...

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Northwestern ACLS Fellowship Recipients Announced

May 22, 2013

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announced its 2013 cohort of fellowship recipients, including several Northwestern faculty members and graduate students. ACLS fellowships are awarded to individual scholars for excellence in research in the humanities and related social sciences.

NU/Aetna Student Health Insurance Premiums for 2013-14

May 21, 2013

The Student Health Insurance Office has posted the NU/Aetna student health insurance premiums for 2013-14.

Cancelling NU/Aetna Student Health Insurance Due to Graduation

May 21, 2013

If you are graduating from NU at the end of Spring Quarter 2013 and want to cancel your NU/Aetna Student Health Insurance coverage, send an e-mail to l-buchberger@northwestern.edu and request a Graduation Letter template.

Want to be a part of GSA's Executive Board? Nominate yourself!

May 20, 2013

Are you interested in serving on the GSA Executive Board in the upcoming school year? We need inspired and motivated individuals to run for positions, so if you are interested in getting more involved with student organizations, have an advocacy issue you are passionate about, want to fill out your CV, or just want to have some fun and meet new people, consider joining us!

Postdoc Position in the Division of Biostatistics at Northwestern

May 20, 2013

The Division of Biostatistics (Department of Preventive Medicine) at Northwestern University, in conjunction with the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems and the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, seeks applications for a postdoctoral scholar in the area of computational systems biology.