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Growth Through Technology Monica Prudencio Arredondo has lived on both coasts and in the middle: she grew up in Winnetka, Illinois, in a Spanish-speaking family from Bolivia, earned an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of New Hampshire, and worked for seven years in Los Angeles, where she managed projects at a communications [...]

Patricia Pendry’s Northwestern education and passion for research led to an academic career in human development Patricia Pendry was always interested in child development, but never imagined she’d become a human development professor and researcher at a well-known university. There were significant challenges in getting there: the college degree she earned in her native Netherlands [...]

Svetlana Rakham’s SCS MFA Puts Her on the Path to a Promising Literary and Teaching Career  When she was a child, Svetlana (“Lana”) Rakhman was always writing stories and poems. A passion for language stayed with her, and she later earned a bachelor’s degree in English. She knew the literary field was competitive but was [...]

Raymond Gleason finds closure in writing the The Violent Season   “It just about killed me,” says SCS undergraduate literature instructor Ray Gleason about writing his latest book, The Violent Season. The book is a collection of interconnected stories about a young man’s experience before, during and after serving in Vietnam. For Gleason, a Vietnam veteran, [...]

Northwestern’s Master of Arts in Sports Administration (MSA) Student Board arranged for a group of students to attend a Chicago Fire game against the Philadelphia Union at Toyota Park in Bridgeview on October 3rd. But it was more than a chance to spend time with fellow students. The event included a behind-the-scenes tour and a Q & A session with Mike Ernst, the Fire’s vice president of ticket sales.

Janine Kirstein-Miles, PhD, is fast emerging as an authority of aging. The globetrotting molecular biologist has presented her research in Austria, Croatia, Germany and Japan.

Master of Arts in Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) instructor Greg Wass was recently named on Government Technology’s list of the top 25 doers, dreamers and drivers in public sector innovation. Watch below as Wass, a Senior Advisor in the Illinois Governor’s office, talks about his work in promoting transparency and innovation in government.

SCS Hosts Online Event with Chief Analytics Officer Bill Franks Current and prospective students of Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Predictive Analytics (MSPA) program were able to get a unique and seasoned perspective on the age of big data through a special online webinar with Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer for Teradata’s global alliance [...]

Charles Crabtree is no stranger to the challenges facing vulnerable students. Once a non-traditional student himself, he worked as an English teacher in Belarus for several years. He observed severe educational discrimination against the country’s large orphan population and dreamed of one day building a school there. Later, he helped create a policy plan for a Colorado Department of Education teaching endorsement to improve online instruction and founded a computer recycling program aimed at improving digital access for local organizations.

Mike Waller always felt that he was just as intelligent as his peers. But studying was a challenge for him, while others seemed to sail through. “My entire life people have told me I ‘wasn’t trying’ or ‘didn’t have what it takes,’” he says. “I started believing them.” After struggling through high school, some community college, and a stint at University of Texas, he decided college wasn’t for him.