June 20, 2013
SPG Improv Third Thursday Show
June 21, 2013
June 2013 Degrees Awarded
June 25, 2013
Fellowship Proposal Writing Workshop for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
June 27, 2013
SACNAS Summer BBQ
July 2, 2013
Fellowship Proposal Writing Workshop for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
July 5, 2013
Application for a Degree due to The Graduate School to receive a degree in August 2013
July 8, 2013
Proposals for The Graduate School’s Professional Development Grant due July 8
July 8, 2013
Data Intensive Summer School
July 9, 2013
Data Intensive Summer School
July 10, 2013
Data Intensive Summer School
August 2, 2013
Dissertations and all supporting materials due for August 2013 PhD candidates
August 9, 2013
Master's Completion form and all supporting materials due for August 2013 master's degree candidates

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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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Ver Steeg Award Winners Announced

June 18, 2013

The Graduate School is pleased to announce that the winners of the 2013 Ver Steeg Awards have been selected. Named for Clarence Ver Steeg, former Dean of The Graduate School, the award recognizes one outstanding non-faculty staff person and two Graduate faculty members for excellence in working with graduate students in The Graduate School.

The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award

June 18, 2013

The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others; and whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning.

Proposals for The Graduate School’s Professional Development Grant due July 8

June 10, 2013

The Graduate School at Northwestern University offers Professional Development Grants to support meaningful graduate student and postdoctoral fellow professional development programming at the program/department level. Grants fund program, cluster, and student/postdoc efforts to offer professional development programming.

Data Intensive Summer School July 8-10

June 10, 2013

The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE) helps graduate students, post-docs, and young professionals from all disciplines and institutions across the country gain the skills they need to use advanced computational resources to advance their research.

Seven Minutes of Science with Ready, Set, Go

May 31, 2013

Interested in improving your ability to discuss your research in a compelling, informative way? Come check out the results of the "Ready, Set, Go" program on June 14.