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“Night Train” Veeck brings revered name and MSA degree to Chicago baseball

“Night Train” Veeck brings revered name and MSA degree to Chicago baseball If you’re one of William “Night Train” Veeck’s many followers on Twitter, you’ll see plenty of conversation with local fans, White Sox news and retweets of anything remotely useful, humorous or touching. You’ll get Train’s opinion on all things sports, and everything else, [...]

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Creating Opportunities

SCS certificate program helps launch Rebekah Raleigh’s advertising career As a marathon runner, Rebekah Raleigh knows something about stamina. That staying power may explain the big things she’s accomplished since earning a bachelor’s degree in art history from Wesleyan University in 2001. Raleigh has it all: a huge talent for photography and years of experience [...]

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Upping the Game

Fundraising consultant Jeff Shuck’s predictive analytics degree helps level the playing field  At Event 360, a fundraising and consulting firm for nonprofits, the staff half jokingly says, “$750 million? We’re just getting started.” Raising millions for its clients is an impressive start for a firm founded just 10 years ago by MS in Predictive Analytics student Jeff Shuck. Shuck, [...]

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Improving Lives through Health Care Technology

Mike Morotti increases patient safety using cutting-edge health care technology  Mike Morotti entered Northwestern’s MS in Medical Informatics program with the idea in mind of having a larger impact on clinical outcomes utilizing cutting-edge computer software technology. He entered the program at a time when his company was trying to create a revolutionary application that enabled clinicians [...]

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Growth Through Technology

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 [...]

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Making it Work

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 [...]

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A Poet’s Story

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 [...]

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Vietnam Veteran and SCS Instructor Finds Closure Through Writing

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, [...]

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Chicago Fire Offers MSA Students More Than a Game

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.

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Janine Kirstein-Miles at Ease Under International Microscope

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.

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MPPA Instructor Greg Wass Talks About Government Technology

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.

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SCS Hosts Online Event with Chief Analytics Officer Bill Franks

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 [...]

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Experience Meets Opportunity

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.

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Changing Expectations

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.

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