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AI Spots Cancer P. 11 … Prison Education Frees the Mind P. 24 … “We ask people to focus in on
The Greek Freak’s Agent P. 40 … Wine Without the Headache P. 49 … everyone else. Improv is first and
Telling Black Chicago’s Story P. 63 ... A Centenarian Songwriter P. 72 foremost about listening.” P. 58
SPRING 2020
Rhino
Rescue
Student Saif Bhatti created
a smart device to stop
poachers in their tracks.
P. 34
MOMENT Robot Swarm In nature, individual birds, fish and bees work together to exhibit cohesive behavior in flocks, schools and swarms. Professor Michael Rubenstein is training 100 pint-sized robots to behave similarly in his robotics laboratory. His swarm robots communicate and work together to self-assemble — and then reassemble — into various shapes, all while avoiding collision and traffic jams. NORTHWESTERN SPRING 2020 PHOTO: JUSTIN BARBIN SPRING 2020 NORTHWESTERN
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Contents
40
SPRING 2020
Vol. 22 Issue 2
FRONT
24 Freak Agent
1 Moment
4 From the Editor
Prison Education Alex Saratsis
5 Talk Back
Unlocks Potential represents some
New Northwestern program, of the NBA’s best,
founded and directed by including his VOICES
philosophy professor Jennifer fellow countryman 7 Matthew Kugler
Lackey, transforms the lives of Facial recognition
— the “Greek
and privacy
inmates, students and faculty Freak,” Giannis
9 Matt Friedman
by creating a community of Antetokounmpo. Acting classes guide
scholars behind bars. film editor
By Monika Wnuk
NEWS
11 News AI improves
cancer detection
15 ’Cat Tales An Earth
Day precursor
19 Innovation A guitar
stand for on-the-go
16 musicians
The Demise of the Dinosaurs
“WE WILL” UPDATE
Fossilized seashells show
a surge of carbon in the 22 Screenwriting
Hollywood alum Greg
oceans — before the asteroid Berlanti creates new
impact — findings that may professorship
help scientists understand the
effects of climate change. FEATURES
34 Saving Africa’s Last
Rhinos Engineering
student Saif Bhatti’s
acoustic device can
detect poachers’
gunshots
ALUMNI
46 Five Questions Kevin
48
Salwen explores
the life of Atlanta
Olympics bombing
hero Richard Jewell
50 Class Notes
← “We just wanted to write 68 In Memoriam
songs that we would find
beautiful — songs that, if
we had discovered them out
in the world, we would wish
SARATSIS: JEFF SCIORTINO
L ACKEY: MONIKA WNUK
we had written them.” 49 72
—Danny M. Cohen ’06 MA, ’11 PhD, right in photo, associate Pure Wine Made Simple With a Song in His Heart
professor of instruction in the School of Education and Alum James Kornacki created Alum Alan Tripp might be part of the oldest songwriting team
Social Policy and part of the band They Won’t Win a purification process to in the world. The 102-year-old achieved a lifelong dream with
remove sulfites from wine. the release of his debut album, Senior Song Book.
NORTHWESTERN SPRING 2020 On the Cover: Fatu, one of the last two northern white rhinos; photo by Ami Vitale SPRING 2020 NORTHWESTERN
4 FROM THE EDITOR TALK BACK 5
Networking Crucial Talk Back “Claudia López
Northwestern she receives the city in very
Magazine NORTHWESTERN
poor conditions.
is giving all
to Rhino Rescue
VICE PRESIDENT, OFFICE OF RESPONDS TO Leslie Solorzano
GLOBAL MARKETING AND
COMMUNICATIONS
Jeri Ward ’01 MEM, MBA
CORONAVIRUS Sweden
Colombians an
ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT,
We finished our spring issue
in late March, just before
“Ultimate Condiment Combo” I do think there is a tendency example of how
— plus 74 pages of stunning, to assume that Colombia
we can change
CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER
Andy Madorsky ’86 MS Gov. J.B. Pritzker ’93 JD
ur cover this issue After meeting first with ordered Illinois residents to creative and emotional images. and its capital Bogotá are
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Stephanie Russell O features Ami Vitale’s his computer science and shelter in place. Northwestern Outstanding accomplishment essentially chaotic and ill- our reality
SENIOR EDITOR
Sean Hargadon
magnificent photo
of Fatu, one of the last two
mechatronics professors,
he’s turned to more than a
had moved quickly to protect
the health and welfare of the
with each issue.
Robert F. Pendergrast
governed. Mayor López did
say in her inaugural speech
and become a
ART DIRECTOR surviving female northern dozen faculty, students and University community from
the coronavirus pandemic
Salt Lake City that poverty in Bogotá, peaceful land.”
Christina Senese white rhinos on Earth. staff at McCormick School of with close to 8 million
INTERIM ASSISTANT ALUMNI The northern white rhino Engineering, Northwestern
by extending spring break,
I greatly appreciate Jolene inhabitants (10 million in
— Alberto Guaranda
conducting courses remotely
NEWS EDITOR
once ranged over parts of Pritzker School of Law for the start of the spring Loetscher’s service to end the metropolitan area), has
Lena Elmeligy ’18
Central Africa. But years of and the University’s Global quarter and requiring sexual abuse. been reduced over time from
PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR
Anne Egger
widespread poaching and Learning Office for support to nonessential staff to work Ramesh Natarajan ’17 MS the high double digits to Also I would like to
CONTRIBUTING ALUMNI AND
civil war in their home range get the project off the ground. from home. East Brunswick, N.J. the current poverty level of highlight that behind this
CAMPAIGN NEWS EDITORS devastated northern white “I see the value of making Northwestern faculty, close to 10%. She did as well amazing woman there is
Lindsay Beller rhino populations, and they connections with people,” students and alumni the I commend you on your issue acknowledge the outgoing another amazing woman,
Deborah Cassell ’00 MS world over are doing their
are now extinct in the wild. Bhatti says. This project 150 YEARS OF WOMEN on “150 Years of Women.” And administration’s job and will, Angelica Lozano. Glad my
CONTRIBUTING DESIGNERS part to help stop and cope
Today South Africa is started just last April, and he now I want to know, when are in fact, preserve some of its country is waking up from
Heather Cosgrove with the spread of COVID-19.
Mark Meyer home to nearly 70% of the returned to South Africa last We’d like to tell these After 42 years in print you going to do 150 years of policies. choosing bad candidates.
Leslie-Anne Mock remaining rhinos left in the December. Now Thornybush stories in Northwestern journalism, I retired from men? It is not accurate to Felipe Suarez
EDITORIAL INTERNS world, mainly southern white wants to do a long-term Magazine. Please share the Los Angeles Times in Robert Richmond ’70 MMus portray Colombia as a lawless, London, Ontario
Sophia Lo ’22, Jacob Munoz rhinos and black rhinos, development program with your experiences at bit.ly 2015 and have been busily Wewoka, Okla. deinstitutionalized country.
’21, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff ’21,
Emma Yarger ’23
numbering about 24,000. In Renoster. /NU_Coronavirus_Stories. freelancing. One of my current Claudia, for whom I voted, Claudia gives hope to Bogotá,
2007, 13 rhinos were killed in “We wouldn’t have been In the meantime, may our assignments is writing about CLAUDIA LÓPEZ, did state that 200 years of and I’m sure that with a bit of
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD spring issue inspire you with
Krishnan Anantharaman ’91, South Africa. Then demand able to get where we are today a new California law requiring BOGOTÁ’S NEW MAYOR democracy had led to her luck and tons of her efforts,
these stories about alumni,
chair; David Beard ’81; Emily skyrocketed in China and without all of Northwestern’s publicly held companies to election. All mayors who took we will have the best city
faculty and students who
Chow ’12; Alex Freund ’17, Vietnam for rhino horn as a help,” Bhatti says. add women to their boards of As a Colombian woman, office on Jan. 1 in Colombia’s that we can dream of in four
’20 JD, Alex Garcia ’89; represent Northwestern’s
Adrienne Samuels Gibbs ’99;
cure-all for everything from can-do spirit. directors. One (extremely lame Northwestern alum and major cities (80% of the close years.
Ryan Haggerty ’07, ’16 MS; cancer to hangovers. In the You and your loved ones and outmoded) argument current student, I could not to 50 million population We may not agree on
Jerry Lai ’04; Robert Leighton last decade poachers have are in our thoughts as we against the idea has been that feel more proud to hear the is urban) were elected on everything, but, as she says,
’82; Mike McGee ’10; Cate
killed more than 8,000 rhinos all battle the coronavirus there is not a large enough news about Claudia López much the same surge of there’s a whole lot more that
Plys ’84; Gita Pullapilly pandemic.
’00 MS; Christina Rosales ’11; in South Africa. Stephanie A. Russell pool of talent for every public [“150 Years of Women,” opinion. Old politics are on we have in common than
Joshua Rosenblat ’17; Kerem Faced with the realization Executive Editor company to appoint a woman. page 27, fall 2019]. Wishing the way out, albeit through what divides us. We hope for
Taskin ’14; William Weinbaum that rhinos could become Good grief! Your “150 Years Claudia success during her the country’s long-standing the best, and I’m sure she will
’82, ’83 MS; Steph Yiu ’08;
Cat Zakrzewski ’15
extinct in his lifetime, of Women” cover story [fall tenure as mayor of Bogotá. electoral system. exceed all our expectations.
McCormick School of 2019] is further proof, if any I am sure the Northwestern Augusto Figueroa Carol Naranjo
© 2020 Northwestern University. Engineering senior Saif Bhatti were needed, of the idiocy of community will support her Bogotá, Colombia Kaiserslautern, Germany
Northwestern Magazine is published
in fall, winter and spring. All decided to do something that notion! leadership.
Rights Reserved. Produced by the to stop the slaughter. Just Thanks for sharing the Go Wildcat values! Claudia is giving all Claudia is the living and
Office of Global Marketing and
Communications, 1603 Orrington a year ago the industrial stories of these accomplished Sandra Wagner ’09 CERT Colombians an example of clear example that those of
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magazine.northwestern.edu double major created a smart Martha Groves ’73 MS and become a peaceful land. classes can also make most
Views expressed in Northwestern
listening device that can detect Los Angeles Many people woke up the day As a young Colombian from important political decisions.
Magazine do not necessarily reflect gunshots on the savanna and after the mayoral election to the countryside, I regard her This victory — like that of
the opinions of the editors or the
University.
send signals to ranger stations Awesome read! Awesome find this fantastic event that victory hopefully. other alternative candidates
to help catch poachers in the women! filled our hearts with hope. Alberto Guaranda throughout our country — is
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act (see page 34). Meg Harlin As a fellow researcher, I feel Sucre, Colombia undoubtedly a good start
Alumni News Editor How Bhatti went from Berlin, Md. proud that finally someone on the course that Colombia
Northwestern Magazine
1603 Orrington Ave.
the kernel of this idea to with a good education has I’m so proud of what she’s must take.
Suite 200 field-testing his Renoster The fall 2019 Northwestern taken the lead of chaotic doing. She’s the light of Thank you for inspiring us,
Evanston, IL 60201
device in Thornybush Game Magazine arrives: “150 Years Bogotá. I am sure she will Colombia, and I’m 100% sure Claudia.
Email: address-change Reserve in South Africa last of Women,” poet Natasha do a fantastic job, but it will she will be the first female Julián Henao Buitrago
ANJE JAGER
@northwestern.edu
summer is a tribute to Bhatti’s Trethewey and Todd’s certainly be tough because president of Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia
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Our society is on track toward camera observes a mugging and gets a
SOCIAL MEDIA important social and political shot of the offender’s face. Or a doorbell
FEEDBACK changes. Colombia is a camera sees a jogger going by a murder
beautiful, rich and amazing scene — a potential witness. Wouldn’t it
150 Years of Women/Ashley country, where just a few are be great to be able to put names to the
Nicole Black — Thank you giving us a bad image. faces? Biometrics also allow police to
@ashnb1 and @northwesternu Claudia, as politician, scan crowds for known bad actors, people
social media team — for these woman and lesbian, shows FACULTY OPINION People can now be automatically with outstanding warrants and celebrity
inspirational words! For a
perfectly how we are growing identified by their faces, their fingerprints, stalkers. On the private side, stores may
More than
black, female, trans alum
who has just begun acting as a country and society. their eyes, and even their voices. Cameras use facial recognition to track known
(as a second career!), this Julian García in public places can scan crowds, and shoplifters, casinos to ban card counters
encouraging and hopeful
message is incredibly helpful.
Bogotá, Colombia
Meets the Eye then both private companies and the
government are able to use databases of
and airlines to check in customers.
Facial recognition makes all these
— @sunna.bee
BATTERY-POWERED
BREAST PUMP
in Biometrics facial recognition information to identify
individuals. On one level, this is nothing
tasks far easier than they were. But
that ease comes at a real privacy cost.
new. Whenever you are in public, there Suddenly a face in a picture of a crowd
Much is made of the invention is a chance that a person might see may be almost as good as a name. What
↑ Maria Goodavage with a Labrador retriever in Japan
I
of a battery-powered breast By Matthew B. Kugler and recognize you. Famous people are do we lose? The ability to protest without
pump in “Alumna’s Startup recognized by strangers all the time, and everyone knowing that we did, the
Gives Babies a Healthy Start” allow for much more efficient The reason is that love n our increasingly computer- the rest of us may still be known to those ability to enter an Alcoholics Anonymous
[Innovation, News, page 18, pumping sessions (15 to 20 heals. This is a new frontier facilitated lives, we are constantly we see regularly: baristas, salespeople, meeting or doctor’s office without being
fall 2019], with specific minutes vs. 45 minutes) and of improving health that confronted by new threats to our secretaries and, if we are unlucky, noticed by the camera across the street.
references to its use in Africa. reduced interruptions to their benefits health care providers personal privacy. We have learned the police. But this is on a completely Biometric identification is not flawless.
This seems to be a misdirected workday. and those for whom they care. that our credit cards, electronic different scale. The proliferation of We know that facial recognition tends to
Soul Restoration/Poet effort, suggesting the use Sahar Jamal ’19 MBA Alan Goldberg ’88 MBA home assistants and smartphones are cameras, and of long-term storage, vastly be less reliable at identifying nonwhite
Natasha Trethewey — Really of a pump that requires the Creator, Maziwa Breast Pump Chicago all capable of sharing our personal increases the chances that people will people, and it is often hard to find out
loved this issue. I was blown purchase of batteries or of Nairobi, Kenya information with their corporate be seen as they go about their lives. And how accurate a particular vendor’s
away by there being a poet recharging in places that often This is a wonderful article sponsors. Yet carried with us every day automated facial recognition may turn a software is. The more we begin to rely
laureate at NU as well as all of
have no electricity. DOGS ARE OUR about a fantastic phenomenon. is another thing that risks exposing our slim possibility of being recognized into a on biometric identification, the more we
the other brilliant things going
on at NU. — @Ballingercole There are numerous BEST MEDICINE There is a player in the personal information: our faces. virtual certainty. must be carefully modest about our level
hand-operated breast pumps National Hockey League, Max Use of biometric identifiers is a Biometric identification can be of certainty.
Economic Uncertainty Costs available. Promoting the use of “Doctor Dogs” [Creation, Domi, who is a Type 1 diabetic. growing challenge in the privacy space. incredibly useful. Imagine a transit When something is incredibly useful
Women Politicians — We have an electrical pump seems to be page 48, fall 2019] is an He plays for the Montreal but also incredibly dangerous, the answer
to be strong and continue to
similar to the promotion of the excellent article about a Canadiens and has a service is to set rules for it. Communities have
challenge gender biases. The
more we speak up, the better! use of infant formula in places potentially powerful gift our dog that travels with him to begun to do that. Use of facial recognition
It’s only a matter of time until where there is no clean water. beloved dogs give us. Looking help him detect low blood by law enforcement has been banned
the tables turn. — Lynette Michael Steinitz ’70 PhD forward to reading Maria sugar. It is an incredible story. in some municipalities, and private
Kruk Antigonish, Nova Scotia Goodavage’s book. Greg Messina ’76 DDS use of biometric information is tightly
Marianne Oehser ’77 MBA Rockford, Ill. regulated in states like Illinois, Texas and
A Healthy Start/
Maziwa Breast Pump —
Response: From my Huntsville, Ala. California.
Congratulations for having experience, basic hand pumps WHAT INSPIRES ME This is a balancing exercise. My
a positive impact on the haven’t succeeded in driving I am a retired physician research shows that people respond very
lives of people in vulnerable behavior change in Kenya who recently trained with I love when Dr. Nicholas differently to uses of biometric technology
situations. Keep doing what or allowed mums to balance my dog for dog therapy. I Pearce [“The Authentic Life,” depending on who is using it and what
RANDY BELICE © 2016, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSIT Y
you do. The world needs more
people like you. — Malik
working and breastfeeding, make rounds once a week at What Inspires Me, Voices, fall they are using it for. One study showed,
Talib because mothers would still a local hospital in inpatient 2019] preaches because you for example, that 59% of people were
need to find a private place and outpatient settings for can tell that he studies the comfortable with a store using facial
Sound Off: Modern Parenting to pump and a fridge to patients, families and guests. Bible, and his presentation recognition to track shoplifters, but only
— However you “parent,” you keep their breast milk cool I have observed both acute clearly reveals what the pages 26% were comfortable with the same
just have to enforce the fact
throughout the day. That said, and chronic medical and are saying. He really breaks it store using it to track customers for
that you’ve ALWAYS “got their
back!” — Donna L. Cope a discreet pump that comes psychological issues healed down. I always look forward advertising. If a bank uses a voiceprint
with milk storage could come by the love of my dog. to hearing him. as extra verification over the phone,
AMEN! Let the kids make closer to addressing their Hospital administrative, Karen Barnes that is probably an unalloyed good. But
mistakes. This how they needs. In terms of its battery professional and support staff Chicago widespread use of biometric monitoring
grow. Parents need to let the
operation, women would also appreciate the visit and in public places turns science-fiction-level
kids navigate the challenges
on campus and stop hand- just have to plug in a basic return to work with gratitude Read more letters from Big Brother into a real possibility.
holding! — Moureen Conroy USB charger, which many are and smiles that change their readers on our website at
Wenik already using to charge their thoughts and actions. This magazine.northwestern.edu Matthew Kugler is an associate professor at
mobile phones. This would further benefits the patients. /talk-back. ↑ Law professor Matthew Kugler Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
NORTHWESTERN SPRING 2020 SPRING 2020 NORTHWESTERN
8 VOICES VOICES 9
SOUND OFF feeling of pleasure, but I also think about SOCIAL FEEDS By Matt a period piece, delivered while
what more can beauty do — what work Friedman ‘93 the character was shaving with
In the Eye of it’s doing.
Beauty can be one of those things
From the annual
@thewaamushow show to Film editor and
a straight razor. After I finished,
Kinzer gently stated, “You’ve never
the Beholder creating that pause, that moment for us
to take time and pay attention. Artists
undisputed hits like
#LegallyBlonde or Fun Home,
senior lecturer
at the American
Film Institute
used a straight razor before.”
That act of shaving was
What is beauty, and who gets can use beauty to draw us in and point #Northwestern student-run designed to say so much about
Conservatory in
us to some deeper understanding about theater productions are on my character: his precision, his
to decide what is beautiful? fire. Tell us your favs.
Los Angeles
our social situation, our history. attention to detail, the knife’s edge
The end result can be about on which he lived. How could I
education or social awareness, and @thewaamushow convey any of that if I appeared
that’s pleasurable in its own right. to not know how to shave with
Renee Engeln, professor For the Record! that tool? It made the entire
of instruction in Amazing, performance unbelievable.
the Department Jennifer McGee unforgettable I think back to that lesson every
of Psychology Preschern ’98, and so timely! time I cut, not with a razor but with
’00 MA, English Avid editing software instead. Eye
Most of us long for professor at @marybeaubien blinks, sighs, hesitations, glances —
beauty — in nature, Johannes Kepler all these actions carry meaning and
in art, in what we see University Linz can make a performance believable
in the mirror and what in Austria and or not. As an editor, I collaborate
we see in romantic partners. strength and with directors and actors to
Physical beauty captures our attention, conditioning coach ensure that audiences see the
whether we want it to or not. One layer for the upper Austrian best, subtlest, truest performances
of physical beauty is relatively universal. girls soccer development program possible. And hopefully those
For example, around the world, humans performances move them.
find features like clear, flawless skin As a fitness instructor for 20 years in Editing The Farewell was
visually appealing. America and as a CrossFit athlete, I’ve especially challenging given that
MY NORTHWESTERN DIRECTION
A second layer of physical beauty often heard women say, “I want to be more than half the film was in
Acting Classes
is determined by historical forces and strong, but I don’t want to be big, as in Special hats off to the lighting, Mandarin, a language that I do not
cultural norms. Some fashions that strike too muscular.” set & costume designers who speak. To increase the complexity
Guide Film Editor
us as ugly now were viewed as beautiful Women will limit themselves in what take every show to the next of the storytelling, the characters
just a few years ago. they are physically able to do because level & make the actors look in the film come from immigrant
(and feel!) like they are already
T
Physical beauty is evaluated according they’re worried about not looking backgrounds, so their actions are
the industry professionals
to ideals, and ideals are, by definition, feminine. That’s really interesting to me they are becoming.
influenced by experiences that
difficult to attain. Our quest to attain because you wouldn’t say, “I don’t want o this day I’m still not work on Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, are unfamiliar to most American
physical beauty for ourselves drives a to study anymore because I don’t want @lizardteach sure how I managed, her semi-autobiographical movie audiences. In editing the film, we
startling array of behaviors — everything to be too smart.” Why are we limiting as an RTVF major, about family and cultural identity. had to use straight-razor precision
from purchasing cosmetics to chronic ourselves in this way?
Cry It Out was
to weasel my way Sitting in that awards ceremony, I teach my to make sure American audiences
dieting. Our desire for physical beauty I coach teenage girls for soccer and into Craig Kinzer’s I once again was surrounded film editing understood where each character
in others leaves us prone to biases. We I hear them say, “I’m not pretty” or “I amazing!! sophomore acting class. The by immensely talented and was coming from, while not being
are told not to judge books by covers, want to be attractive to boys.” I told theater department almost never passionate storytellers.
students over-expositional.
but this tendency is nearly impossible them to forget about that. They’re
@kimnontoxic
let nonmajors into those classes. My path between these two that their When the film came out in
to shut down when it comes to physical bombarded with this message of And I never even wanted to be places — from Evanston to job focuses theaters, I went several times, but
attractiveness. fake beauty by Hollywood. Instead of In the Red and an actor. But I knew filmmaking Hollywood — has led me to an on per- instead of watching the movie, I
focusing on the physical, “what I look Brown Water, Bright involved working with actors, so I amazing career. For two years
formance
watched the audience. I saw their
like,” change that and say “Wow, what Star, Makasha talked my way into the class. in a row now, I’ve cut films that smiles and heard their laughter.
Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa can my body do? How strong can I be?” There I was: a shy, socially premiered at Sundance. I’ve edited more than Then I heard that laughter turn to
Munster Tananbaum I think it’s a complete reframing of the Copeland’s Extreme awkward kid from East Tennessee, both Academy Award–winning anything. crying. Bringing an audience from
Curator of Modern concept of beauty. This is about being Home Makeover and sitting in a room surrounded by actors and singing, dancing Then we laughter to crying is a delicate
and Contemporary the best possible version of yourself — Morgan Rielly’s And talented, experienced theater chipmunks. I also teach editing to
spend the
journey, but that combination of
Art at the Block and that is beautiful. to Live by the Girl majors with larger-than-life MFA candidates at the American emotions is so true and honest.
Museum of Art personalities and passions for Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory year trying Every year I get a new class
Have a “Sound Off” question you’d like
Scout Law are just a performance. I felt totally out of in Los Angeles. And as I do all to make of young editors at AFI. I teach
When I think about answered? Email us at magazine few of my favorites place, yet infinitely inspired. these things, I still think about people them that their job focuses on
beauty, I think about this @northwestern.edu. off the top of my Fast forward 30 years to this the lessons I learned in my
laugh or performance more than anything.
constellation of external head! past January. I was nominated for Northwestern acting classes. Then we spend the year trying to
qualities that are linked to eliciting an American Cinema Editors Eddie One of the first monologues I cry — or make people laugh or cry — or
positive emotions. I think about the @tango.lango Award for best film editing for my performed in Kinzer’s class was even both.” even both.
NORTHWESTERN SPRING 2020 Illustration by Bruce Morser SPRING 2020 NORTHWESTERN
10 VOICES CAMPUS NEWS / STUDENT LIFE / SPORTS 11
Earth was
stressed
WHAT INSPIRES ME before dino
extinction
Finding Courage in Resilience p 16
Women’s
Former prosecutor for victims of domestic violence prepares hoops wins MedKit makes
law students in the “me too” era. first title in pharmacy in a
30 years p 14 box p 18
and demonstrate remarkable resilience.
Deborah Tuerkheimer, Class of And so as I do my writing, which is very
1940 Research Professor of Law, different from work in the trenches, I am
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law informed by those years working directly
with people who experienced this kind of
“My work has centered in recent years on violation. That has been seared into me.”
HEALTH
sexual misconduct and on the legal and
cultural impediments to accountability for Deborah Tuerkheimer teaches courses
assault and harassment.
“I feel incredibly fortunate to be in a
on criminal law, evidence and feminist
jurisprudence at the Northwestern AI Boosts
position where part of my job is to think
and write about issues in ways that I hope
Pritzker School of Law. She served as an
assistant district attorney in New York Cancer
ultimately can contribute to improving
people’s lives.
County for five years before working as
a professor at the University of Maine
↑ Deborah Tuerkheimer
Detection
“One experience that I took from School of Law and the DePaul University and the Inertia of Injustice in 2015 and
my time as a prosecutor was watching College of Law. She wrote Flawed is at work on a book about credibility in
Artificial intelligence
people who’ve been hurt move forward Convictions: “Shaken Baby Syndrome” sexual misconduct cases. improves breast, lung
cancer diagnostics by
reducing false positives
and false negatives.
BURKE: BENJAMIN BRETH/DYNAMIC PHOTO SYSTEMS; TUERKHEIMER: EILEEN MOLONY
HEARD ON CAMPUS Weinberg College of Abrams at a speech and 12 years as U.S. “We need real empathy
Arts and Sciences’ hosted by the College attorney, I think this and understanding
Points 30th annual Richard W.
Leopold Lecture
Democrats issue [immigration]
is open and shut to
of what it looks like
to survive. As long as A
rtificial intelligence
turns out to
of View “As Americans, we
“As a prosecutor in
the federal system
me — you don’t get to
come into the country
survivors recognize …
that there is power in
be terrific at
predicting breast cancer
have the right to for 15 years, as an illegally.” the fact that you are in mammograms and lung
Last fall and winter determine our leaders, assistant U.S. attorney Former U.S. Attorney surviving every day, cancer in tomography scans.
Northwestern hosted we have the right to General Jeff Sessions we can do something And it’s more accurate than
several political leaders voice our opinions … at a speech hosted with that. We can build radiologists in many cases,
and social activists [and] we have the right by the College movement. We can according to new studies
who offered insights to be wrong. But that Republicans galvanize folks.” from Northwestern Medicine
into the world today. right is not real if we Tarana Burke, left, and Google.
don’t have free and founder of the “me “We hope someday this AI
“I’m desperately fair elections.” too” Movement, as tool for radiologists becomes
concerned that Former Georgia part of Northwestern’s as ubiquitous as spell-check
the ugliness of gubernatorial MLK Dream Week and for writing email,” says Google
this moment is a candidate Stacey the commemoration of software engineer and study
discouragement to 150 Years of Women author Scott McKinney.
good people going The research team
into public service. It developed the AI model to
instead should be a train computers to identify
clarion call. We need these cancers early.
you to fix this mess.” In breast cancer, the AI
U.S. Rep. Adam model significantly reduced
Schiff, chair of the false positives and false
House Intelligence negatives.
Committee, at the “This is a huge advance in
the potential for early
Illustrations by Chris Gash SPRING 2020 NORTHWESTERN
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scans with a performance GLOBAL REACH
meeting or exceeding that
of expert radiologists.
(Tomography is imaging Studying Sustainability
by sections.) This deep-
learning system provides
an automated image-
Around the World
WATER MANAGEMENT
evaluation system to enhance
IN THE DESERT
the accuracy of early lung Israel
cancer diagnosis that could
lead to earlier treatment. Deep Deo Mukuralinda visited
Israel in September as
learning teaches computers part of Northwestern’s
to learn by example. Global Engineering
The deep-learning system Trek program. The
also produced fewer false trip — to a region
positives and fewer false central to innovation
Mozziyar Etemadi in water management
negatives, which could lead to — emphasized the
fewer unnecessary follow-up importance of politics,
SUSTAINABLE CHOICES
procedures and fewer missed geography and culture
Scotland
tumors if used in a clinical in an interdisciplinary
breast cancer detection,” Breast cancer is the most setting. With support from the Institute understanding of
for Sustainability and Energy at water. Mukuralinda, a
says Northwestern study common type of cancer in “Radiologists generally sophomore industrial
Northwestern, Simone Laszuk
author Mozziyar Etemadi, a women globally, occurring in examine hundreds of two- planned to attend the Clinton engineering major,
research assistant professor about one in eight women. dimensional images or ‘slices’ Global Initiative University says the experience SAVING TROPICAL FORESTS
of anesthesiology at the Mammography is the most in a single CT scan, but meeting in April in Edinburgh. The will shape how he Thailand
Feinberg School of Medicine widely used breast cancer this new machine-learning senior anthropology major is part thinks about and serves
communities in need Giuseppe Buscarnera, an
and of engineering at screening tool, but diagnosing system views the lungs HARNESSING THE of the Reducing Inequalities in
of improved water associate professor of civil and
POWER OF RIVERS Sustainable Engagement team, a
the McCormick School cancer from these images is in a huge, single three- student-led initiative to empower management. environmental engineering,
Colombia worked with the World Wildlife
of Engineering. “Breast a challenge. One in five cases dimensional image,” says low-income communities to make
cancer is one of the highest of breast cancer is missed by Etemadi. “AI in 3D can be Colin Phillips, center, Fund to balance development
environmentally friendly choices.
a postdoctoral plans with conservation efforts
causes of cancer mortality radiologists, and according to much more sensitive in its in Southeast Asia. He has used
researcher in civil
in women. Finding cancer the American Cancer Society, ability to detect early lung geoenvironmental landscape
and environmental
earlier means it can be 50% of all women who cancer than the human eye engineering, worked analysis to determine how a
smaller and easier to treat. undergo screening for a 10- looking at 2D images. This with the Nature major highway that connects
We hope this will save a lot year period will experience a is technically ‘4D’ because it Conservancy in the cities in Myanmar and Thailand
Magdalena River Basin can be built while preserving the
of lives.” false positive, in which cancer is not only looking at one CT Dawna Tenasserim Landscape.
in Colombia to develop
is wrongly suspected. scan but two [the current and
water management tools
A false positive can lead to prior scan] over time.”
THAIL AND: ©HKUN L AT/ WWF-MYANMAR
that could be used to
overtreatment with invasive More research is needed preserve river networks THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD
“This is a huge biopsies and unnecessary before AI can be integrated around the world. The Antarctica
advance in stress for patients. A false
negative can result in delayed
into clinical practice. “In
some examples, the human
NatureNet Fellowship
recipient is also building Krissa Skogen, an adjunct professor in the
the potential detection and treatment. outperforms the AI. In others,
valuation models
that could help land
Program in Plant Biology and Conservation,
traveled to Antarctica in November and
for early In lung cancer,
Northwestern and Google
it’s the opposite,” Etemadi
says. “The ultimate goal will
managers decide how to
fund river management.
December with Homeward Bound. The trip
was the culmination of a yearlong global
breast cancer found that AI was able to be to find the best way to leadership development program for women
in science, technology, engineering, math and
detection.” detect malignant lung
nodules on low-dose
combine the two. The magic
of the human brain isn’t going
medicine who are interested in sustainability
and conservation. Skogen saw firsthand the
— Mozziyar Etemadi computed tomography chest anywhere anytime soon.” effects of climate change in West Antarctica.
The ● Thirty-two faculty members who are affiliated
with Northwestern are among the most-cited
● Marwan M. Kraidy,
Kraidy, a leading authority
on Arab media, was named dean and CEO of
● Twenty-three women from around the
world visited the Simpson Querrey Institute’s
● Northwestern professors Guillermo A. Ameer
and Sir Fraser Stoddart were named 2019
Ticker researchers in the world, according to Clarivate
Analytics. Materials science professor Yonggang
Northwestern University in Qatar. Kraidy will also
hold a named chair and a tenured appointment. A
Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics as part
of “Hidden No More: Empowering Women
fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
Ameer designs biodegradable materials that
Huang,, chemistry professor Mercouri Kanatzidis
Huang native of Lebanon, Kraidy has for more than two Leaders in STEM.” The women learned about promote tissue regeneration and prevent scarring,
and materials science and chemistry professor decades taught and published award-winning technologies that integrate with the human body and Stoddart, a Nobel Prize winner, introduced
Tobin Marks are the most-cited researchers. research about the Middle East. He starts July 1. to monitor clinically relevant information. the mechanical bond into chemical compounds.
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NORTHWESTERN LEADERSHIP ’CAT TALES
Project
Coping with Survival
Coronavirus Three months before
Northwestern professors offer expertise on the the first Earth Day in
April 1970, Northwestern
global pandemic. Students for a Better
Environment hosted
Shankman ’97 explained Project Survival, a
hoarding behavior. Expert public “teach-out” on
Judith Moskowitz, professor environmental issues
of medical social sciences such as air and water
at the Feinberg School, pollution, oil in rivers,
encouraged habits to and threatened species.
overcome stress, fear and More than 10,000
anxiety in a time of isolation. people attended the
In a Buffett Institute for event at the Technological
Global Affairs webinar, Adia Institute in January
Benton, associate professor 1970, and it served as a
s the coronavirus of anthropology, discussed model for future Earth
A outbreak emerged in
late winter and early
how emergency declarations
provide opportunities for
Day programs. The event
included speeches from
→
Student Andrea Martin
spring, Northwestern experts authoritarianism to expand Lt. Gov. Paul Simon ’83 H completes cerumen [ear
contributed to the search for and explained how social and a performance by folk wax] removal for a child in
Guatemala.
solutions — from research distancing practices increase singer Tom Paxton, as well
on potential therapeutics inequality. “We have people as a series of workshops.
to strategies to limit the for whom the disease is the “It was to educate
loneliness of social isolation. least of their worries,” Benton people,” says Jim Reisa
Microbiologist Karla said. ’71 MS, ’72 PhD, then an MEDICAL MISSION
Satchell, principal investigator Finally, in a Chicago environmental biology
Hearing Aides
for Northwestern’s Center Tribune op-ed, Northwestern graduate student who
for Structural Genomics of President Morton Schapiro chaired Project Survival.
Infectious Diseases, is leading reflected on the early days “The main theme was ‘get
an effort to study the structure of the pandemic. “Are there the facts out there.’ The Team of audiology doctoral students provide care in rural Guatemala.
biology of the components of lessons to be learned? I think best thing you can do is
the virus to understand how so. When you are in a crisis, to let the facts prevail.”
to stop it from replicating you need to model resilience ast August, For doctoral students Sarah For both Burleson and
in human cells through a
medication or vaccine.
and empathy. We will all be
remembered for how we
L Northwestern
audiology graduate
Rosen and Andrew Burleson,
their goal was to provide the
Rosen, this global experience
influenced their career
Psychiatry and behavioral handled adversity, and sought students made the trek to specialized care that many of aspirations. Rosen hopes
sciences professor Stewart to protect others.” Nuevo Progreso in western their patients lack. to continue to do audiology
Guatemala to provide Burleson helped fit a humanitarian work, while
comprehensive care for the 17-year-old Guatemalan Burleson’s goal is to use
local residents. Over the woman with a hearing the experience to found
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL course of four more-than- aid. She later found him a startup or make
12-hour days, eight students on Facebook and told him humanitarian work part
Led by junior guard Lindsey Pulliam, worked alongside four that because of his care, of his day-to-day routine.
one of the country’s leading scorers, professional audiologists. she planned to pursue In the future, both want
They performed diagnostic higher education. She could to help students interested
Northwestern women’s basketball (26-3, ← testing and hearing-aid now hear well enough to in providing global health
16-2) won the Big Ten regular season title Lindsey Pulliam fittings. Some patients walked understand academic lectures. care to afford the trip, which
for the first time in 30 years. Pulliam’s averaged nearly 10 hours overnight to start “It’s one thing to read can cost $2,500 or more.
STEPHEN CARRERA
ROBERT HINSHAW
20 points per
31-point night against Michigan State in game while
lining up for care at 6 a.m. at about the experience of Rosen and Burleson hope to
Hospital de la Familia. The providing care in a textbook,” encourage alumni of the trip
February propelled her past 1,500 career leading the
Wildcats to the
↑ A group of American Indians
Northwestern team partnered Burleson says. “But it’s a to fundraise for students to
interrupted Project Survival
points. She is the fastest player in Wildcats Big Ten regular to protest “pollution of Indian, with the nonprofit Entheos whole other thing to actually go the following year.
history to accomplish that feat. season title. lands, religion and minds.” Audiology Cooperative. do the work.”
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RESEARCH
Toddler Temper Tantrums
and Athletes’ Brains
who would benefit from
the surgery undergo
it too late, while 25%
EARTH SCIENCE
of patients who don’t
need it are having
Climate Change and surgery prematurely.
The ideal timing for
the Demise of Dinos knee replacement
surgery is based on an
LATE TALKERS LIKELY algorithm that factors in
Fossilized seashells show signs of ocean
TO HAVE TANTRUMS age, pain, joint function
acidification before the asteroid impact that and radiographic
caused mass extinction. Toddlers with delayed assessment.
vocabulary have more
frequent and severe
ew evidence gleaned Iowa combined. Eruptions temper tantrums than PLAY SPORTS FOR
N from Antarctic
seashells suggests
spewed large amounts of
carbon dioxide into the
their peers with typical
language skills. A “late
HEALTHIER BRAIN
that the Earth was unstable atmosphere, which led to talker” is a toddler who In the absence of
before the asteroid impact ocean acidification, directly has fewer than 50 words injury, people who play
that wiped out the dinosaurs. affecting the organisms living or isn’t putting words sports have healthier
Northwestern-led research there. together by age 2. brains than those who
on preserved clam and snail “The Earth was under Certain kinds of do not. Athletes have
shells offers evidence of stress before the major mass frequent and severe an enhanced ability to
climate change occurring extinction event,” says Andrew tantrums in toddlers can tamp down the brain’s
before the Cretaceous- D. Jacobson, professor of Earth indicate risk for future background electrical
Paleogene mass extinction and planetary sciences. “The mental health problems, noise to better process
event. The researchers found asteroid impact coincided says Elizabeth Norton,
that the shells’ calcium with preexisting carbon an assistant professor
isotope composition shifted cycle instability. Our findings of communication
Tm qui con estinu fgdm
in response to a surge of support the hypothesis that non pa qui dolutam. sciences and disorders,
carbon in the oceans — the combined effects of Deccan who worked on the
findings that may help volcanism and the Chicxulub study with Lauren
scientists better understand impact were necessary to drive Wakschlag, professor
the effects of today’s human- the extinction.” and vice chair in the
made climate disruption. Jacobson was senior author research was conducted. He is limestone and some antacid followed by analysis with a potential changes caused by department of medical
This carbon influx was of a study published in the now a postdoctoral fellow at tablets. Because carbon dioxide mass spectrometer. the current climate crisis. social sciences.
likely due to long-term January issue of Geology. The the University of Wisconsin– in water affects the formation “We can measure calcium “Our results confirm external sounds, says
eruptions from the Deccan study’s first author, Benjamin Madison in the Department of and stability of calcium isotope abundance variations what scientists expect, that Nina Kraus, director
Traps, a 200,000-square-mile Linzmeier, was a postdoctoral Geoscience. carbonate, researchers could with high precision,” Jacobson increases in atmospheric KNEE REPLACEMENT of Northwestern’s
volcanic province located researcher with the Ubben Researchers studied determine how increasing says. “And those variations CO2, as a consequence of TIMING IS WRONG Auditory Neuroscience
MAT T GARLICK /SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
in modern India — a land Program for Climate and shells taken from Seymour levels of the compound in the are like fingerprints to help us anthropogenic emissions, will Laboratory. “Think of
area roughly equivalent Carbon Science at the Institute Island, Antarctica. “Shells water affected shell formation understand what happened.” cause ocean acidification,” The timing of knee background electrical
to the states of Illinois, for Sustainability and Energy grow quickly and change over time. While the paper does Jacobson says. “In a way, we’re replacement surgery is noise in the brain like
Indiana, Wisconsin and at Northwestern when the with water chemistry,” says They analyzed the shells’ not assert that climate using the rock record as an critical to optimizing its static on the radio,”
Linzmeier. “Because clams calcium isotope compositions change during the age of the analog to gain insight into benefit, says Hassan Kraus says. “There are
and snails live for such a short using a state-of-the-art dinosaurs directly contributed what might happen in the Ghomrawi, associate two ways to hear the
“In a way, we’re using the rock period of time, each shell is a
short, preserved snapshot of
technique employed in
Jacobson’s laboratory at
to their demise, it provides
compelling information that
future.
“The Earth system
professor of surgery.
But most patients are
DJ better: minimize the
static or boost the DJ’s
record as an analog to gain the ocean’s chemistry.” Northwestern. The method could inform future research is sensitive to large and getting the procedure at voice. We found that
insight into what might happen Seashells mostly comprise
calcium carbonate, the same
involves dissolving shell
samples to separate calcium
into the Cretaceous-Paleogene
mass extinction. The study
rapid additions of CO2.
Current emissions will have
the wrong time. Ninety
percent of patients
athlete brains minimize
the background ‘static’
in the future.” — Andrew D. Jacobson mineral found in chalk, from various other elements, also offers a way to anticipate environmental consequences.” with knee osteoarthritis to hear the ‘DJ’ better.”
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OPEN AND
SHUT
The stand’s
hinged leg
deploys
automatically
when the
ENTREPRENEURS magnetized latch
mechanism is
activated.
Pharmacy in a Box
Student startup MedKit Solutions provides
over-the-counter medications and other
personal products in a dorm vending machine.
hen a student gets new locations and new items.
THIN TO WIN
W sick on campus,
mom’s chicken soup
At the 2018 ImproveNU
Challenge, the team (then The stand, made
is far away and sometimes called Wildcat Wellness) of spring steel, is
thin enough that
the pharmacy is just not close received third place for Tm qui con estinu fgdm it can fit with the
enough. its work. The co-founders non pa qui dolutam. guitar in a hard-
To help provide conducted an online survey shell case, which
students with easy access of more than 330 students. ↑ MedKit co-founder Chris Holland is designed to
to medication and other It revealed that about 40% allow little wiggle
room. “And when
personal care items, a team of students felt sick at least you’re playing, it
of students created MedKit once a week, and more than lies flat against
Solutions, transforming a 80% were deterred by the The Garage, a hub for student Urban says the project the guitar. It’s so
dorm vending machine into a long walk to Evanston-area entrepreneurs, and plan has helped him bridge thin that you can’t
pharmacy in a box. pharmacies. As a result nearly to work on MedKit further the gap between his really feel it,” says
Morgan Lewis.
Pre-med seniors Matthew 65% of students reportedly during a post-graduation gap interests in medicine and
Urban and Chris Holland, did not treat their symptoms year. They intend to eventually entrepreneurship.
both neuroscience majors, due to the inconvenience of hand off their creation and “Coming into college as
developed the concept with traveling for medicine. ideas — including expansion pre-meds, we knew it would
Feinberg School of Medicine The founders say MedKit to other universities — to a be difficult to immerse
NO GLUE OR
first-year student Ashorne fulfills a need. While campus new set of students. ourselves in entrepreneurship
SCREWS
Mahenthiran ’19. The startup locations such as Norris Holland and Urban credit and business courses despite
provides easy, on-campus University Center and Lisa’s Northwestern’s Residential our interest,” Urban says. The stand
attaches by
access to medication, hygiene Cafe offer health and wellness Services, Canteen vending, “MedKit was our way to
compression.
items and sexual health products, only 3% of students and student marketing, take our passions beyond “It clamps onto
products. The group’s first said they purchased medicine entrepreneurship and the classroom to the entire LATCH the guitar with
machine, introduced in fall at the University. business groups with helping Northwestern community, INVENTION tension,” says
ATTACHMENT
2019, offers name-brand Urban and Holland to guide the project and and in doing so we have Morgan Lewis.
Auxilia
When the “Everywhere that
medicine in Sargent Hall, and are part of the Residency keep it afloat as it grew from gained crucial entrepreneurial
mechanism at it might touch
plans are underway for both Program at Northwestern’s conception to reality. and medical experience.” the bottom of the the guitar, it’s
guitar touches the
Morgan Lewis ’18 MS wanted to create a storage solution to ground, it releases
covered in foam,
so it’s not going to
HEALTH TECH keep her guitar safe during “rest mode” — between songs or magnets that hold scratch it. And it
the leg in place.
at breaks during gigs. For her Engineering Design Innovation When the guitar
doesn’t affect the
guitar’s acoustics
It takes 20 seconds of hand-washing to effectively kill final project, she created Auxilia, an attachable stand that
MEDKIT PHOTO: SHANE COLLINS
is picked up, the because it doesn’t
germs. Most people wash their hands for 8 seconds or stays out of the way while the guitarist is playing and deploys spring-activated
magnets move
touch the back of
the guitar.”
less. Industrial engineering major Ibraheem Alinur and his automatically when she sets the guitar down. It won the back down to
startup City Health Tech have created a device to monitor Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s 2019 catch the leg and
keep it closed.
and motivate proper hand-washing. The easy-to-install timer Creative Tech Showcase. Lewis created a prototype that she is
and display is being used in five Chicago-area elementary refining and engineering for manufacturing. The singer also
schools to gather data on hand-washing habits with the recently designed a shoe that celebrates women in country
hope of reducing illness and improving attendance rates. music as part of the Nike By You x Cultivator campaign.
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← Members of the women's
volleyball team practice on Gleacher Golf Center: A Putt Above
their new court at the Trienens
Performance Center.
The Northwestern golf
community celebrated the
women’s basketball team, generosity of University
shared her fellow student- Trustee Eric Gleacher
athletes’ excitement to have ’62 and his wife, Paula,
everything they need under at the November 2019
one roof. “This is the latest dedication of the newly
amazing place where my renovated Gleacher Golf
teammates and so many other Center — a premier player
Wildcats will have the chance development facility for
to grow,” she said. student-athletes.
In addition to two “Providing a world-
basketball courts and one class experience to
volleyball court, the new our student-athletes
facility features a large turf academically, socially and
field and hitting and pitching athletically is the core of
pavilion for the baseball our daily mission, and the Northwestern built the ↑ Eric Gleacher takes the
and softball teams in the complete renovation of first-ever collegiate golf first putt at the dedication of
the Gleacher Golf Center.
Mogentale Training Facility, the Gleacher Golf Center indoor training center,
which is named for lead will help us deliver on which helped take the
donors Eric ’84 and Cindy this commitment,” said men’s and women’s Lehman Brothers in 1968
Mogentale ’84. Jim Phillips, the Combe teams to new heights — and retired as chairman
During the dedication, Family Vice President for including 50 tournament of Gleacher & Co. in
Trienens recalled how far the Athletics and Recreation. victories, seven Big Ten 2013. He is a platinum
space has come since it was Reflecting on the Conference titles and member of NU Loyal —
first constructed more than golf program’s success 10 Top 20 finishes at the with 40 consecutive years
two decades ago, when it was and looking toward the NCAA Championships. of giving to Athletics,
Combe Family Vice President “a big barn with a green carpet future, Gleacher told Gleacher attended the Bienen School of
ATHLETICS
for Athletics and Recreation, and two goal posts.” Now it’s dedication attendees, Northwestern on a golf Music and other areas
during the dedication. a “gorgeous facility,” he said. “Northwestern’s stature scholarship and earned — and received the
Trienens Performance Center The newly renovated,
bright, open space — which
Trienens received a
bachelor’s degree in business
in intercollegiate golf
has been significantly
a bachelor’s degree
in history from the
Northwestern Alumni
Medal in 2004. Two of
Transforms Team Practices houses three indoor practice
courts, team meeting rooms,
an expanded performance
administration from
Northwestern’s School of
Commerce (now the Kellogg
enhanced, as is indicated
by the results our
coaches and student-
Weinberg College of
Arts and Sciences. After
graduating, he served
his six children, Sarah
Gleacher ’91 and Patricia
Pitcairn ’12, are alumni.
A cutting-edge facility on Central Street is changing how basketball, nutrition hub and more — School of Management) athletes have earned. as a lieutenant in the The Gleacher Golf
volleyball, baseball and softball players prepare to compete. profoundly enhances in 1945 and a JD from I have no doubt that our U.S. Marine Corps. He Center is located within
Northwestern’s student- Northwestern Pritzker School achievements over the has continued to golf Patten Gymnasium, which
athlete experience. of Law in 1949. He is a next 20 years will be even competitively and has won also has undergone a
A
25-foot tall purple of the Trienens Performance In 2017 Trienens gave Junior Lindsey Pulliam, who platinum member of NU Loyal, more outstanding.” 25 club championships renovation and is the
“N” is emblazoned Center, which is located $20 million to transform earned First Team All-Big Ten the giving society honoring Two decades ago, also over the years. Gleacher world-class home to
on a wall within the adjacent to Ryan Field and Trienens Hall, the indoor turf and Academic All-Big Ten consistent annual giving with Gleacher’s support, began his career at Northwestern fencing.
Trienens Performance Center, Welsh-Ryan Arena. field he helped fund with a honors as a sophomore on the to the University, with 44
Northwestern’s newly leadership gift in 1996, into consecutive years of giving to
redesigned athletics facility. a world-class developmental Athletics, Northwestern Law
The scale of this design
“This is the facility for Wildcats volleyball, and other areas. His late wife,
detail is emblematic of the latest amazing baseball, softball, and men’s Paula Trienens ’47; daughter, Gleacher Features
impact of the building’s place where my and women’s basketball teams. Trustee Nan Trienens Kaehler
benefactor, University Trustee “When the moment arrived ’79 MA/MS; brother, Roger
Howard J. Trienens ’45,
teammates and to dramatically reinvent the Trienens ’47, ’48 MA, ’51 PhD;
• 5,400-square-foot short-game and putting area
’49 JD, ’95 H. Northwestern so many other space, Howard stepped up and three of his grandchildren
• Training area with three bays that include a golf
Athletics and Recreation Wildcats will again — as he has time after also are Northwestern alumni.
simulator and a dedicated video instruction bay
celebrated Trienens’ decades time after time, year after year
of service to and support
have the chance after year — for the University
for Northwestern at the to grow.” that means so much to his
← Howard Trienens and Sally
Dumas at the dedication of the
• 1,200-square-foot lounge with a study area,
November 2019 dedication —Lindsey Pulliam family,” said Jim Phillips, the Trienens Performance Center kitchen and sports performance hub
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