The 2007/2008 Community Building winners are listed below.  To participate in their activities, e-mail them directly.  For the most complete information about Community Building events, please subscribe to our Google Calendar

• Chicago Campus Students of Color Outings.  Activities to bond graduate Students of Color on the Chicago Campus. D’Anne Duncan, Neuroscience, d-duncan2@northwestern.edu; Nneka Onyezia, Clinical Psychology, n-onyezia@md.northwestern.edu; and Noe Gomez, IGP.  ndgomez@northwestern.edu.
• Chicago Cultural Club.  A community of graduate students created around cultural, scientific, and architectural experiences in Chicago.  Faith Boman, Chemistry, f-boman@northwestern.edu and Ami Patel, patela@northwestern.edu.
• Cricket Club.  A community of graduate students hosting weekly cricket games, bi-annual tournaments, screening of international games, and an on-line forum.  Robin Abraham Koshy, Materials Science & Engineering, koshy@northwestern.edu; Aniket Kaloti, Neuroscience, a-kaloti@northwestern.edu; Roopam Khare, Mechanical Engineering, r-khare@northwestern.edu.
• The Northwestern University Curling Club (Teflon soles & brooms).  A sport that graduate students from all disciplines and their families can enjoy at any level of skill, commitment, athleticism or competitiveness.  Blake Stevens, Materials Science & Engineering,  b-stevens@northwestern.edu; Michelle Mok, Materials Science & Engineering, m-mok@northwestern.edu; Ben Leever, Materials Science & Engineering, b-leever@northwestern.edu.
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation at McCormick & WCAS.  Activities that encourage participation among McCormick & WCAS programs: design competition, technopreneurial seminars, dinner with guests.  Jon Servaites, Materials Science & Engineering, j-servaites@northwestern.edu, Bo Zhao, Materials Science & Engineering, b-zhao@northwestern.edu, Binoy Shah, Mechanical Engineering, binoy@northwestern.edu; and Suresh Donthu, Materials Science & Engineering, donthu@northwestern.edu.
• Explore the Impact of Photonics.  Creation of interdisciplinary photonics club that sponsors talks or workshops.  Pao Tai Lin, Materials Science & Engineering, pao-lin@northwestern.edu.
• Graduate Broomball League.  A sport played like hockey with rubber broom and ball on ice that hosts bi-monthly tournaments.  Kevin Henderson, Materials Science & Engineering, kevin-henderson@northwestern.edu.
• Graduate Women Across Northwestern.  Activities that bond female graduate students for three purposes: cross functional networking, sharing best practices, broadening social networks.  Kendra Erk, Materials Science & Engineering, k-erk@northwestern.edu.
• Informal meetings with visiting professors.  Informal meetings of graduate students from different departments with distinguished visiting faculty from various disciplines.  Tim Sweeny, Psychology, t-sweeny@northwestern.edu.
• Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Community Forum.  Activities that bond interdisciplinary community (graduate students in The Graduate School, the Medical School, and the Law School) by hosting dinner/speaker events to successfully engage complex issues.  Blayne Amir Sayed, MD/PhD, b-sayed@northwestern.edu.
• Let's Connect the Dots: A Coffee Hour.  A community of graduate students and post-docs bonded by desire to grasp various aspects of reality and to share intellectual wealth in informal two-hour long discussion sessions.  Shehla Arif, Mechanical Engineering, shehla.arif@gmail.com.
• Mad Science.  Creation of a four-five week science summer camp at Northwestern for underserved students attending middle school in Evanston and Chicago that offers a practice teaching opportunity for Northwestern students.  Rubi Rajbanshi, Civil Engineering, rajbansh@northwestern.edu.
• MGLC Grant.  Social and networking events to strengthen community between eight McCormick departments.  Joanna Bier, Applied Mathematics,  joanna@northwestern.edu.
• MYOM - ‘Make Your Own Maki.’  Culinary adventure of making your own sushi on Chicago Campus.  Kachiu Lee, Preventive Health, kachiu@md.northwestern.edu; and Jared Klein, Preventive Health.  j-klein@md.northwestern.edu. 
• NU Graduate Lakefront Cruise:  A Semiformal Event  - 10/19/07.  Tickets $15.  Chwan-Hai Harold Hsiung, Materials Science & Engineering, hsiung@northwestern.edu.
• Northwestern Swing Dancing Syndicate.  A community of monthly social dancers that includes school of music students and dance classes already given, i.e. BLAST.  Blythe Towal, Biomedical Engineering, b-towal@northwestern.edu.
• Northwestern Salsa Night Out.  11/9/07.  Event includes half an hour of eating and mingling, followed by one hour of salsa dance lessons by a professional instructor, one hour of live salsa music, and two hours of Latin music from a local DJ. Oscar Curet, Mechanical Engineering, omcuret@northwestern.edu, and Genya Takeda, Physics and Astronomy, g-takeda@northwestern.edu.
• “Plant-it Purple” Graduate Gardens.  Creation of an Evanston community garden where graduate students and their families can come together to dig in the earth and discuss projects on-line.  David Giljohann, Biological Sciences, d-giljohann@northwestern.edu and Jill Millstone, Chemical & Biological Sciences, j-millstone@northwestern.edu.
• Uneasy Listening: NU Grad Student Jazz Fans.  A community of graduate students bonding around attendance to jazz concerts by local musicians.  Brent Mix, English, b-mix@northwestern.edu.
• Women in STEM. Creation of interactive seminar series around accomplished women in STEM.  Kate Lockwood, Computer Science, kate@cs.northwestern.edu.