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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...