“I’m First”week at Northwestern is underway with acelebration of the stories and accomplishments of those in the University community who are first-generation college students.From students just beginning their college journeys to Northwestern President Michael Schill,first-gen individuals play an integral role in campus life.The week of programming,hosted by Student Enrichment Services(SES),highlights the experiences of students whose parents did not graduate from afour-year college or university.At Northwestern,more than 300 first-gen students represent about 15%of this fall’s entering class.SES partners with students who are first-generation,lower-income and/or DACA/undocumented.The week’s programming,part of alarger,year-long initiative led by SES associate director Mayra Garces,is just one example of the office’s campus-wide partnerships and advocacy as it strives to build amore inclusive campus community.“Northwestern’s first-generation students,staff and faculty represent the best of the University,”said Sharitza Rivera,senior director of SES.“Every student deserves access to support,resources and community to make the most of their time at Northwestern.Without parents who paved the way,our first-gen individuals had unique obstacles to becoming Wildcats.SES is dedicated to celebrating our these students because our team knows from personal experience that graduating from college has an impact on ourselves and the communities we came from.”The full slate of activities and events runs through Nov.8,which is also the annual National First-Generation College Celebration.Programming includes two different swag pick-ups around campus,a faculty and student mixer hosted with associate professor Myrna Garcia and acareer workshop with Northwestern Career Advancement.The week culminates in the“I’m First”celebration on Nov.8 with food,speakers and awards at the Segal Visitor Center.Associate professor Mesmin Destin,who serves as faculty director of student access and enrichment,will deliver akeynote address on the role of community in the success of BIPOC and first-gen college students.The evening ends with the Black Poet Society’s spoken word performance and the inaugural presentation of the I’m First:Trailblazer Award and the I’m First:Faculty Advocate Award. 查看详细>>

Eve Downing,a third-year student in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern,has won a$7,000 scholarship from the Udall Foundation,recognizing her leadership and service on environmental issues.Downing is originally from Alaska,where she has been active in environmental and climate causes.She is Northwestern’s first Alaskan recipient of the Udall Scholarship,and the 13th Northwestern recipient overall.“I plan to work on environmental policy after graduation,and Ihope to contribute to an equitable transition to clean energy in Alaska and the Arctic.My community is already feeling the impacts of climate change,and Iwant to help create abetter future for my home,”she said.Her work has included promoting the divestment of university endowments from fossil fuels;advocating for nuclear nonproliferation;studying the treaty regimes and legal frameworks around people displaced by environmental disasters;storytelling to highlight people’s real-world experiences with climate change;and voter engagement on environmental issues.“Eve’s track record of leadership and service on behalf of the environment is highlighted by her experience as an Arctic youth ambassador,a role that saw her interact with several high-level elected officials,including U.S.Senator Lisa Murkowski,”said Jason Kelly Roberts,associate director for outreach and communications at Northwestern’s Office of Fellowships.Roberts also emphasized Downing’s participation in the UNLEASH Innovation Lab in Greenland,which enables young people to create solutions,become leaders and drive networks to help reach the United Nations’Sustainable Development Goals.The Udall Foundation is named after brothers Morris K.and Stewart L.Udall,Democrats from Arizona who were both U.S.Representatives in Congress.Stewart Udall also served as U.S.Secretary of the Interior during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations in the 1960s.Both men emphasized environmental stewardship and productive partnerships between the U.S.government and native communities.Today,the Foundation is an independent entity of the federal government that engages scholars,fellows,interns and other partners on environmental protection,as well as health care and public policy work related to American Indian and Alaska Native communities.Downing is the second consecutive winner of aUdall Scholarship from Northwestern,after Kadin Mills,a current third-year student in the Medill School of Journalism,Media,Integrated Marketing Communications,won the same scholarship last year.Isabella Twocrow,a current fourth-year student in the School of Education and Social Policy,also received an internship from the Udall Foundation in Washington,D.C.in 2022. 查看详细>>

Three distinguished individuals will receive the Northwestern Alumni Medal,the Northwestern Alumni Association’s highest honor,for the positive impact they have made in their careers and communities.The medal recognizes alumni who have had atransformative impact on their fields,performed exemplary volunteer service to society or demonstrated an outstanding record of service and support to the University.This year’s recipients are Cindy Chupack’87,David Louie’72 and Jeff Ubben’87 MBA(’20 P).They join the ranks of aselect group of more than 100 alumni—including Supreme Court justices and aNobel laureate—who have been given the award since 1932.Alumni Medal recipients Cindy Chupack is an award-winning television writer and producer whose credits include“Sex and the City,”“Everybody Loves Raymond,”“Modern Family,”“Better Things,”“Divorce”and the upcoming miniseries“Fleishman Is in Trouble.”She also directed and co-wrote the film“Otherhood,”starring Angela Bassett,Felicity Huffman and Patricia Arquette.She is a2020 inductee to the Medill School of Journalism,Media,Integrated Marketing Communications’s Hall of Achievement and an active member of Northwestern’s Council of One Hundred.David Louie is the business editor and technology reporter for ABC Disney’s KGO-TV San Francisco,for which he became the first Asian American reporter in 1972.He has covered countless stories in local broadcast and digital news:he tracked the emergence of Silicon Valley as atech innovation center;was part of the first local TV news team to go to China following normalization of US-China relations;and conducted the first post-9/11 interview with late U.S.Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta.To commemorate his 50th anniversary at KGO-TV,he endowed ascholarship in 2022 for Medill students through the Radio Television Digital News Association,which had awarded Louie its first scholarship in 1970.Jeff Ubben is founder,managing partner,and portfolio manager of Inclusive Capital Partners,a San Francisco-based investment management firm.The firm seeks to positively leverage capitalism and governance in pursuit of ahealthy planet and the well-being of its inhabitants,and seeks superior long-term shareholder value through active partnerships with companies whose core businesses either contribute to this pursuit or are transforming their businesses to become more sustainable.Ubben joined the Northwestern Board of Trustees as acharter trustee in 2008 and became alife trustee in 2020.He also is aKellogg Asset Management Practicum Advisory Council member and has served on the Kellogg Alumni Council. 查看详细>>

Third-year graduate student Nic Watkins was hoping his message on personal protective equipment might stick.But to be certain,he made sure that Northwestern students who stopped by asafety-focused informational popup booth on the Evanston campus on February 21 left with stickers and information about when lab coats and gloves should—and should not—be worn.Watkins was joined on the second floor of the Arthur&Gladys Pancoe NSUHS Life Sciences Pavilion by Research Student Safety Initiative(RSSI)board members Darren Hsu and Agnes Thorarinsdottir,as the three presented passersby with information to better sustain Northwestern’s culture of research safety.The booth—along with alaunch event,panel discussions,and workshops—highlighted the RSSI’s second annual Safety Awareness Week held February 18-22.Jay Walsh,vice president for research,and Michael Blayney,Research Safety executive director,opened the week during an event that featured presentations from Craig Merlic,executive director of the University of California Center for Lab Safety,and BioRAFT representative Bill Kallinich.Blayney also presented Di Wang,RSSI president,and Thorarinsdottir,RSSI vice president,with adistinguished award for their efforts in helping to establish the student-led research initiative at the University in 2017.Both are fourth-year graduate students in chemistry. 查看详细>>