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  • ***********Spring 2024 Course Per Diems*********

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  • Schisms in Society Spring 2024, Tuesdays, 9:30-11:00 a.m. at Norris University Center

    Schisms in Society given by multiple departments Throughout human history, societies across the globe have been fragmented by strident rifts that result in long-standing religious, political, and socioeconomic consequences. Some of these conflicts derive from ideological differences, some are territorial, and other schisms are frequently based on cultural, ethnic, or racial grounds. 
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  • European Unification and the Question of Sovereignty Spring 2024, Tuesdays 1:00-2:30 p.m. at Norris University Center

    Michael Loriaux, Professor, Political Science, offers that the European Union is the most ambitious and successful experiment in international peace-making in history. At the core of that experiment is the commitment to push back on sovereignty claims as advanced in the name of the state and in the name of leaders of the state. 
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  • The History of anti-Semitism Spring 2024, Thursdays, 9:30 -11:00 a.m. at Norris University Center

    David Shyovitz, Associate Professor, History, Director, Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies In modern political discourse, “anti-Semitism” is frequently invoked and infrequently defined. The imprecision with which the term is deployed leads to broad disagreements about the nature and scope of the phenomenon. 
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  • Pinocchio to Pokémon - The History of Children's Media Spring 2024, Thursdays, 1:00-2:30 p.m. at Norris University Center

    Jacob Smith, Professor, Radio-Television-Film Director, MA in Sound Arts and Industries When we consider the subject of children’s media culture, we quickly discern a host of contradictory behaviors and attitudes: childhood is seen as a period of timeless wonder, but children are bombarded with all the latest fads and gadgets; we try to insulate children from the adult world, but provide them with media technologies that allow them easy access to it. 
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  • Kathy Reichs, the 2023 Recipient of The Alumnae of Northwestern University's Alumnae Award 

    EVANSTON, Ill. --- Kathy Reichs, American crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic, is the recipient of The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s 2023 Alumnae Award. The award, established in 1976, is presented annually to an outstanding alumna who has made significant contributions in her field and who has attained national recognition. 
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Announcements

Wed, 09/20/2023 - 6:28pm

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Kathy Reichs, American crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic, is the recipient of The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s 2023 Alumnae Award. The award, established in 1976, is presented annually to an outstanding alumna who has made significant contributions in her field and who has attained national recognition. 

From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as a forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her mesmerizing forensic thrillers. For years she consulted with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Québec. Dr. Reichs has travelled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide and helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala. As part of her work at JPAC (Formerly CILHI) she aided in the identification of war dead from World War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Dr. Reichs also assisted in the recovery of remains at the World Trade Center following the 9/11 terrorist attacks....The Bone Hacker, her most recent novel, was released on August 1, 2023. In addition, she coauthored the Virals young adult series with her son, Brendan Reichs... Dr. Reichs was also a producer of the hit Fox TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels.

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Tue, 08/08/2023 - 2:24pm

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Tue, 07/18/2023 - 3:29pm

Click here to read about these 20 outstanding students.
Thu, 05/25/2023 - 10:22am

EVANSTON, Ill. --- The Alumnae of Northwestern University has awarded funding for six projects that will bring guest artists and distinguished scholars and speakers to campus toenhance the undergraduate experience during the 2023-2024 academic year.  The grants, totaling more than $26,700, are funded with earnings from the Academic EnrichmentEndowment, established in 1990 as one of The Alumnae’s 75th Anniversary gifts to the University. These grants will help facilitate faculty-sponsored projects that address important andtimely issues related to astronomy, global health, politics and feminism, visual and theater arts, Indigenous and Black artistry, and more.

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Sat, 05/20/2023 - 2:57pm

EVANSTON, Ill. --- The Alumnae of Northwestern University has selected three recipients to receive its 2023 Graduate Fellowships for graduate-level tuition. The fellowships are awarded to full-time students in terminal master’s degree programs who show promise of achieving distinction in careers that will serve the public good. Maya Blumovitz,  Lyra Johnson, Yaritza Chavez. Maya is pursuing a master’s degree in computer science, with a focus on medical technology. Lyra is pursuing a master’s degree in public health, with a special interest in global health, maternal and child health, and reproductive health. Yaritza is pursuing her master’s degree in engineering design and innovation. Her goal is to pursue design research to eventually work for non-profit organizations in the social impact sector. 

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