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More Cuddles in the NICU p. 13 … South Asian Heart Health p. 18 … “Ebola is the canary in the coal
Shoes Made from Plants p. 21 … Sesame Street’s Purple Pipeline p. 32 mine signaling the world’s most
… Five Questions with Random House’s Benjamin Dreyer p. 48 vulnerable populations.” p. 36
SUMMER 2019
Water at the
Breaking Point
With water quality under siege, Northwestern comes to the rescue.
p. 26
MOMENT
MOMENT
On a Midsummer
Night
Tucked away
behind a wall of
hawthorn hedges
lies Shakespeare
Garden, one of
Northwestern’s
cherished hidden
gems. The garden
is home to various
trees, shrubs,
flowers and herbs
that were mentioned
in Shakespeare’s
writings, were
common during
his lifetime or are
modern cultivars of
those older plants.
The Garden Club
of Evanston has
maintained the
garden since its
creation more than
100 years ago. The
garden was placed
on the National
Register of Historic
Places in 1989.
NORTHWESTERN SUMMER 2019 PHOTO: BILL ARSENAULT
MOMENT
Gear Shift
The fantastical
set and projection
design stole
the show in the
Northwestern
University Opera
Theater adaptation
of Igor Stravinsky’s
opera The Rake’s
Progress. The work
was inspired by a
series of William
Hogarth paintings
and engravings that
Stravinsky viewed
at the Art Institute
of Chicago in 1947.
Directed by Joachim
Schamberger,
Northwestern’s
director of opera,
the show ran at
Cahn Auditorium
in the winter.
NORTHWESTERN SUMMER 2019 PHOTO: © TODD ROSENBERG 2019 SUMMER 2019 NORTHWESTERN
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Contents
SUMMER 2019
Vol. 21 Issue 3
26
FRONT
36 1 Moment
6 From the Editor
Putting Patients First
7 Talk Back
to Stop Ebola
Virologist Daniel Bausch ’83
VOICES
says the solution to containing
Solutions for 9 Howard Reich
infectious disease outbreaks is
Troubled Water Conversations with
to first engage communities.
Northwestern Elie Wiesel
By Lisa Stein
researchers, students 11 Nichole Pinkard
and alumni seek Making digital space
19
for girls in STEM
solutions for water
quality issues.
Diagnosing ‘Art Acne’ NEWS
Researchers discovered 17 Student Life Student-
the cause of pimple-like founded cold brew
protrusions on many of coffee biz expands
Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings. 18 Discovery South
Asian heart health
32 21 Innovation Scoots
makes shoes from
How to Get to Sesame Street pineapple and corn
In its 50th season, the colorful
world of Sesame Street is still “WE WILL” UPDATE
teaching and entertaining 22 Simpson
children, thanks in part to a Querrey Center for
Epigenetics Genetic
purple pipeline of talent.
research could lead to
By Josh Rosenblat targeted therapeutics
FEATURE
42 Leading by Example
Meet the three
Northwestern
Alumni Medal winners
ALUMNI
51 Creation Former
12
New York City
food editor Sierra
Tishgart launches
new cookware line
52 Class Notes
← “It’s very hard now to 68 Deaths
L AKE: MICHAEL GOSS; SOFTBALL: S.J. CARRERA
write a speculative dystopia BACK STORY
RUSSELL: © PETER EARL MCCOLLOUGH
that doesn’t feel like you’re 72 Dom Collins
JD-MBA grad
reporting from this world finds his beat
in some ways. It is such
a surreal moment. It just 48 16
feels like nothing is out of Q&A with Benjamin Dreyer ’79 Catch This!
bounds.” The Random House copy
chief shares his writing
Propelled by five first-year starters, including catcher Jordyn
Rudd, Northwestern softball reached the NCAA Super
—Karen Russell ’03, award-winning author pet peeves. Regionals, finishing the season with a 47-13 record.
NORTHWESTERN SUMMER 2019 On the Cover: Illustration by Heads of State SUMMER 2019 NORTHWESTERN
6 FROM THE EDITOR TALK BACK 7
Progress Toward Talk Back “The article
Northwestern Northwestern Center for hundreds were killed
Magazine Water Research, which or forcibly converted.
on Uzoamaka
Clean Water for All coordinates water research Norman Miller ’70
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Krishnan Anantharaman ’91,
chair; David Beard ’81; Emily
across Northwestern
and provides faculty and
Houston Emeka Nzelibe
Chow ’12; Alex Garcia ’89;
Adrienne Samuels Gibbs ’99; students with opportunities determine the likely sources was fabulous!
Ryan Haggerty ’07, ’16 MS;
Jerry Lai ’04; Robert Leighton
f you drive by or on the Great Lakes. Industrial
for multidisciplinary
collaboration.
of metals. While the testing of
copper and copper alloys of
A BEACON OF HOPE Thank you,
’82; Mike McGee ’10; Cate
Plys ’84; Gita Pullapilly I stroll along the pollution, agricultural runoff, In our cover story, objects from Igbo Ukwu and There was a lot to like about Northwestern
’00 MS; Christina Rosales ’11;
Joshua Rosenblat ’17; Kerem
lakefront on the
Evanston campus on a
increased algae blooms
and recent severe flooding
“Solutions for Troubled
Waters” [page 26], you’ll read
Ife in Nigeria has not been
extensive, the testing that has
the spring issue of the
Northwestern Magazine. The
Law School,
Taskin ’14; William Weinbaum
’82, ’83 MS; Steph Yiu ’08; regular basis, you might associated with changing about Northwestern faculty, been done suggests that the “Caravans of Gold” article was for recognizing
Cat Zakrzewski ’15; Sheldon
Zenner ’74, ’78 JD
have noticed that the color
of Lake Michigan has been
weather patterns have led to
more bacteria in the lakes —
students and alumni from
a variety of disciplines —
source of copper for the Tada
Seated Figure [“Caravans of
especially interesting. And the
article on Uzoamaka Emeka
her talents and
VICE PRESIDENT, OFFICE OF
GLOBAL MARKETING AND
changing the past few years. and lower quality of drinking chemistry, environmental law, Gold,” page 29] is Western Nzelibe [“A Beacon of Hope supporting
COMMUNICATIONS
Jeri Ward ’01 MEM, MBA
While most of the time the
water is a familiar slate
water for the millions of
people who depend on this
engineering, anthropology
and public policy — who
Europe’s Massif Centra [a
highland region in southern
for Asylum Seekers,” page 38]
was fabulous! What an
her work with
EXECUTIVE EDITOR blue-gray or brown-green freshwater source. are finding innovative and France]. However, at Igbo inspiring woman she is! Not this neglected
Stephanie Russell
SENIOR EDITOR
color, there are days when
it turns a Caribbean blue,
In March more than a
dozen leading scientists and
cost-effective ways to keep
water systems clean and CARAVANS OF GOLD
Ukwu the most likely sources
for copper and its alloys were
only is she doing such good,
important and difficult work,
and vulnerable
Sean Hargadon
ART DIRECTOR
almost turquoise. The photo experts from Midwestern sustainable in this country local, though there is also she is leading a crew of young population.”
of the Lake Michigan shore and Canadian universities and around the globe. The “Caravans of Gold” article some indication that during lawyers who are greatly
Christina Senese
in Evanston on our table of and research institutions, These outstanding in the last issue [page 26, the later phases of metal magnifying her impact. I hope
— Mary Jo Deysach
ASSISTANT ALUMNI NEWS EDITOR
Leah Goldberger contents [page 4] captures including Northwestern leaders give us hope that spring 2019] fascinated casting at Igbo Ukwu these some of them will follow in
PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR
this strange tropical hue — it civil and environmental we can indeed solve one of me. I fondly remember materials may have been her footsteps. Thank you for believing that nothing is
Anne Egger was taken in April. The image engineering professor Aaron the world’s most pressing studying African literature at supplemented with copper telling us about her. I have impossible. You are indeed
CONTRIBUTING ALUMNI AND also shows that the water Packman, released a report challenges — making clean Northwestern with a woman from sources in the Sahara. a new hero! And thank you, born to do what you are doing
CAMPAIGN NEWS EDITORS is so clear you can see the on how climate change water available to all. teacher whose husband Kathleen Bickford Berzock Northwestern Law School, for for the least and the voiceless
Lindsay Beller
Deborah Cassell ’00 MS
rocks beneath the surface. could further affect the Great usually taught the course but Curator, Caravans of Gold recognizing Nzelibe’s talents of the world. Immigration
Surprisingly, Lake Michigan Lakes and threaten public was in Nigeria that semester. Block Museum of Art and supporting her work with law practice needs more
EDITORIAL INTERNS
Daniel Fernandez ’19, and Lake Huron recently health, infrastructure, fish Our class enjoyed the novels this neglected and vulnerable people like you who know
Valerie Fong ’22, Sophia Lo surpassed Lake Superior in and wildlife, and the regional by the Nigerian writers Chinua Catalan Atlas mapmaker population. and understand the crux of
’22, Jacob Munoz ’21, Dan water clarity. economy. Achebe and Wole Soyinka. Abraham Cresques [page 29] Mary Jo Deysach ’68 the immigration matter in our
Rosenzweig-Ziff ’21
While that might sound Packman, an expert Something particular that was not merely Majorcan. He Evanston nation and globally.
© 2019 Northwestern University. like progress in cleaning up in water scarcity, water Stephanie Russell caught my interest was the was the son of a rabbi and a Maureen Okoli ’18
Northwestern Magazine is published the Great Lakes, it’s not. The management and urban Executive Editor statement that the copper distinguished Sephardic Jew The passion for justice for Aurora, Ill.
in fall, spring and summer. All
Rights Reserved. Produced by the reason the water is so clear flooding, is director of the from that time in history who lived in Palma. Only four humanity is apparent in every
Office of Global Marketing and has to do with an invasion of “was likely sourced in Europe.” years after his death, there line of your story, Professor I am a Northwestern law grad
Communications, 1603 Orrington
Ave., Suite 200, Evanston, IL 60201. zebra and quagga mussels Because these ancient was a massacre of the Jews Nzelibe. You inspire me just returned from a week
Telephone: 847-491-5000 Website: that began more than Nabataean caravan routes of Palma (1391), and many and give me hope to keep volunteering at the Dilley
magazine.northwestern.edu
30 years ago — when continued to pass through the Pro Bono Project in Texas.
Views expressed in Northwestern
Magazine do not necessarily reflect mollusks stowed away on Middle East (in modern-day There are many ways that
the opinions of the editors or the cargo ships from the Black Israel), could the copper not nonimmigration attorneys
University.
Sea and were dispersed in the have come from the famous can volunteer to help. We will
Great Lakes when the ships mines at Timna in what is continue to spread the word.
ADDRESS CHANGES emptied their ballast water. now southern Israel? Julie Sommers Neuman ’86 JD
Mail to:
Alumni News Editor The mussels, estimated to Rita Winslade Steele ’66 Indianapolis
Northwestern Magazine number in the hundreds of New Canaan, Conn.
1603 Orrington Ave.
Suite 200 trillions in Lake Michigan The article [“Immigration
Evanston, IL 60201 alone, eat 90% of the lake’s You pose a very interesting Misconceptions,” Online
Email: address-change phytoplankton, wiping out question. There were indeed Exclusive, bit.ly/NU_Mag
@northwestern.edu a critical food source at the multiple sources for copper _ImmigrationMyths] is at odds
Web: magazine.northwestern.edu bottom of the food chain — that were active in the with actual data. For example:
/change-your-address leaving the water crystal clear medieval period, between the “People are coming to the
and devoid of food organisms 8th and the 16th centuries. United States to give birth
for fish populations. Materials scientists use a to U.S. citizen ‘anchor babies,’
ANJE JAGER
The mussels are just the process of isotopic analysis to ↑ The Catalan Atlas so they can get legal status.”
latest in a large number of
events that have taken a toll We want to hear from you: letters@northwestern.edu @NorthwesternU /NorthwesternU @NorthwesternU
NORTHWESTERN SUMMER 2019 SUMMER 2019 NORTHWESTERN
8 TALK BACK VOICES 9
It may be the case that
parents are not pursuing legal
in their everyday lives,
not just in their milestone
quest for the presidency. I had
family ties to Georgia, so I
“The story build on? What can we begin? If I know
from the beginning that it all leads to
status through such activity accomplishments. Would love attended. None of us dreamed ‘Wildcat Style despair, how can we go on?”
but that does not mean that
such activity is not taking
to see more stories like this.
Becca Donaldson ’08
that within months he would
be nationally famous and
— No Filter’ by Wiesel and the other survivors did
go on, building new lives in foreign
place to benefit their children. Milwaukee then not much longer after Marla Paul was countries, learning languages that were
Gregg Barrett ’16 MS
Johannesburg, South Africa
that be sworn in as president.
Jonathan Addleton ’79
quite touching. CONVERSATIONS WITH ELIE WIESEL answered questions that had haunted me
strange to them, having children and
grandchildren, rebuilding life.
FIVE QUESTIONS Macon, Ga. Would love for decades but addressed some I didn’t If that’s not the definition of optimism,
Professor Nzelibe, thank you
so much for providing this
WITH JOHN STROUP
to see more Shared even realize I’d been harboring.
It literally has taken a book to
what is?
Wiesel also explained to me why he,
clarifying information and
for all of the work that do on
I feel proud to be part of a
company [Belden] run by John
HOLDING POWER
TO ACCOUNT
stories like
this.”
Histories of articulate what I absorbed from this great
thinker and humanitarian, but some
like my parents, clung to faith, despite
the knowledge that God had abandoned
behalf of immigrants and
refugees.
Stroup [“Five Questions with
John Stroup ’88,” Alumni, I’m not an ideologue, but — Becca Donaldson the Holocaust lessons stand out.
Above all, I was struck by his
Jews amid their persecution. Wiesel said
he could struggle with that bitter truth
Art Chwalek ’81
Asheville, N.C.
page 46], that even with all
his business pursuits, he still
how does a journalist such
as Mr. Barstow [“Holding
Bring Hope optimism, though he certainly didn’t call
it that. In fact, he said that after all that
inside religion or outside. He chose inside.
Moreover, faith to him was not an end in
cares about the humanities. Power to Account,” Online with a master’s degree in 1952 had happened to his family and millions itself, but a process: a tireless asking of
Facts about the border Congratulations on the Exclusive, bit.ly/NU_Mag and then went back to India more, and with all the genocides that questions and seeking answers that may
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people are welcome in initiative! _DavidBarstow] objectively and served the country as a By Howard Reich had occurred after the Holocaust, he was elude us. To Wiesel, faith was not a noun
light of today’s politics. Ana Santos determine what is a “dubious political activist and leading pessimistic. But he hastened to note it but a verb.
Gini Tingley Duval ’61 São Paulo, Brazil tax scheme” unless he has journalist. I asked my sister- hen you’re the child was “an active pessimism.” Yet in Wiesel’s conversations with me
Fargo, N.D. a reasonable background in in-law, who grew up in India, of two Holocaust What did he mean? and in his copious writings, he repeatedly
tax accounting and is privy to if she’d heard of him. She survivors, as I am, the “Not to give up,” he said. “Because of expressed respect for survivors who later
CAMPUS NEWS the IRS code? If there really responded immediately, “Of enormity of that event genocide, you must work harder, rather rejected the very faith he clung to.
WILDCAT STYLE was something nefarious course! He’s an icon!” stays with you forever. than say, ‘Since it hasn’t helped, forget it.’” In so doing, he offered one more
— NO FILTER It is so wonderful that going on in the president’s tax Kali Sabnis Plomin ’91 And yet, because it’s your own parents Rather than give in to despair, in other precious lesson: the meaning of tolerance.
Professor Irv Rein [“Rein’s reporting, wouldn’t the IRS Chicago who suffered so greatly, you find it words, Wiesel and survivors like my
This is hysterical. “I like to Reign,” News, page 16] is already know this? difficult — if not impossible — to talk parents chose hope. Howard Reich ’77 is the Chicago Tribune’s
wear my parents’ clothes from still contributing to the Mike Davis ’14 MA I guess you are really old to them about it. How do you ask your “If despair is the answer, where do classical and jazz critic and an author. For
a long time ago” [“Wildcat communications department San Francisco when Northwestern comes mother and father about enduring such we go?” Wiesel said to me. “What can we more on Reich, see his class note on page 54.
Style: No Filter,” page 34]. Like at Northwestern. He was my and the Class Notes [page 50] cruelties, losing everything but their lives
1980 or 1990. Somebody is in inspiration and a significant Thank you for the sunshine. begin with the ’50s … and you and somehow summoning the courage
for an awakening. contributor to my ability Truth to power is a noble graduated in 1948. to start over again?
Bob Norris ’78 to have a successful career pursuit. Diana Gould Penney I certainly never knew how. Which
Dixon, Ill. in the technology industry. Fatima Marashi-Hassan ’79 Coleman ’48 is why I was fortunate to have become
Professor Rein made us think Wauwatosa, Wis. Longwood, Fla. friends with Nobel Peace Prize laureate
The story “Wildcat Style — and communicate in an Elie Wiesel during the last four years
No Filter” by Marla Paul was effective manner. He got us I would very much appreciate of his life. I met him in 2012, when the
quite touching. It’s a great out into the world and out of knowing if Mr. Barstow has CORRECTION Chicago Tribune — where I have worked
way to feel in touch with the library to experience and written and had published any my entire career — assigned me to
how students on campus not just read —though he reports of dubious affairs of In the spring 2019 issue, interview him, because the newspaper
are actually expressing what encouraged us to read too. powerful liberal Democrats, Bienen School of Music was awarding him its Literary Prize.
they’re thinking and feeling Fifty years of teaching, 81 because I have the impression alumnus Jacob Nissly ’05 Within minutes of meeting in his New
years young — he continues that they would not be allowed was incorrectly listed as York office, we communicated as if we’d
to be a role model. by those in control at the New principal trombonist for the known each other for years. Our shared
2012/NANCY STONE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE/ TNS
Stephanie Carmel ’78 York Times. San Francisco Symphony. He histories connected us, not least because
South Orange, N.J. Marg Cooke ’80 is principal percussionist. Wiesel and my father, Robert Reich, both
Charlotte, N.C. were liberated from the Buchenwald
Favorite campus speaker death camp on April 11, 1945. Wiesel and
[“Heard on Campus,” Voices, WE’D LIKE TO HEAR I soon decided that our ongoing dialogue
page 12]? Jimmy Carter ranks ALUMNI NEWS FROM YOU should be captured in a book, and the
near the top of the list. It must recent release of The Art of Inventing Hope:
have been during the 1975–76 I saw the small blurb on We’d like to get your feedback. Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel
school year, my first as a Kuldip Nayar [In Memoriam, Take our brief survey, and comes three years after his death.
Northwestern undergraduate. page 70] and was interested to you’ll be entered in a drawing To say that I learned a great deal about
The then-unknown candidate know more about this Indian to win one of five $25 Amazon the Holocaust, genocide, intolerance,
spoke to a small audience man who studied journalism, gift cards. Visit magazine faith and aspiration from Wiesel would
Saul Osorio
about his seemingly quixotic graduated from Northwestern .northwestern.edu/survey. be an understatement. For he not only ↑ Elie Wiesel at Symphony Center in Chicago in November 2012
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10 VOICES VOICES 11
SOUND OFF fascinating thing is that AI SOCIAL FEEDS By Nichole caring adults used city parks
is happening in a very Pinkard ’98 PhD and classrooms to provide the
Artificial condensed timeframe,
bringing attention to
Who was your
favorite Northwestern Associate
extracurricular opportunities that
kept my friends and me busy while
Intelligence its risk alongside the
opportunity.
Commencement or
Convocation speaker?
professor, School
of Education and
Social Policy
strengthening our ability to lead,
persist, collaborate, problem solve
Should we consider AI as Accenture Strategy and celebrate others’ successes.
full of promise or peril? has started to work All these skills, in addition to my
with Northwestern to academic knowledge, have been
enable our people with the critical tools on my journey. The
right skills needed to manage inequity in our out-of-school
the things that AI can do for clients. opportunities gnawed at me.
Brian Uzzi, Richard L. Thomas Northwestern, through McCormick It was a bevy of opportunities,
Professor of Leadership and School of Engineering dean Julio Ottino people and experiences that made
Organizational Change and Sally Blount, former dean of the being a computer scientist possible
Kellogg School of Management, helped for me. Now it’s my responsibility
As AI gets better at human decision- us craft a specialized program for our to ensure that the next young
making, it could potentially take jobs strategists and data scientists, taught by girl has access to the resources to
“African American
away from human beings. It’s not just gifted professors who are bringing great create her own path.
the worry about losing your job, it’s the substance and teaching approaches. In studies professor When I returned to the
worry about losing your status and self- the last two years, we’ve trained many of and future Chicago University in 1992 as a student
esteem. AI has the potential to our people on how best to up-skill their Public Schools CEO in the first cohort of the learning
make human beings feel like data-driven capabilities. sciences doctoral program, I was
Charles Payne. It
the machine is actually awakened to the transformative
better than we are as an was meaningful to power of well-designed learning
entity, because it does Adam Waytz, associate professor of hear from someone technologies. I’ve spent the last
the things that make management and organizations who shaped so 20 years working to create the
us human better than infrastructure needed to support
much of the way I
we do. Humans and machines kids in developing their digital
It may be that our can partner effectively in learned to think.” literacy. I’m excited about bringing
MY NORTHWESTERN DIRECTION
response is to begin several ways. One way is to the Digital Youth Divas program to
On Board with STEM
rejecting technology and divide up moral decision- @makegood the Evanston community.
embracing religion or to put making. Machines are Studies show that if a girl has
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value on the human spirit. It could also good at being objective not engaged in out-of-school STEM
lead to tremendous stratification, where decision-makers. It’s “I enjoyed my learning opportunities during the
you have a caste system of elite human optimal for us to rely commencement ould you be students. Their stories of life in middle grades, regardless of how
beings who run the machines, then you on machines to make speaker in on this bus if urban Chicago were as strange to well she does academically, she
have the machines, then you have all pure utility-maximizing this was your me as my stories of suburban life On our will not major in a STEM field in
1998: Ruth
the other human beings. Or maybe we decisions and then for reality? in Kansas City, Kan., were to them. journey college. The Digital Youth Divas
redefine what it means to be human. We humans to make corrections if Bader Ginsburg. That was the On our journey back to Evanston, program is designed to create an
back to
have a new outlook with the premise they feel any moral rules were violated. #NotoriousRBG.” question asked of me and about we were asked to quietly reflect environment where girls can be
that all human beings are created equal. A second framework involves letting 25 other minority high school on the question, “Would you be on
Evanston, girls and also explore ways in which
It’s a big planet. Maybe all three happen machines do the computational work of @ML_Schneider seniors in 1987 as members of the this bus if Chicago’s West Side was we were technology is relevant for them.
simultaneously and separately. sifting through gobs and gobs of data, Kellogg School of Management’s your lived reality?” asked to When I returned to the
where humans can provide a check on Leadership, Education and My first interaction with quietly University in 2018 as a professor,
that work and feed their input back to the “Senator Charles Development (LEAD) summer Northwestern made visible the role I was reminded of being a student
Mark Knickrehm ’84, group chief machine, augmenting the heavy-duty, program. We were the best and of support structures in my life.
reflect on the bus answering a life-altering
Percy, in 1967.
executive for Accenture Strategy robotic work with the human expertise. the brightest, embarking on a This awakening followed me to on the question. Now I am the professor
I believe it may
The third framework is letting journey, unbeknownst to us, to Stanford, where, as an undergrad, question, asking questions and seeking to
AI will have a more significant impact robots handle some emotional labor. have been his make visible our support structures I was a reading tutor for youth stimulate my students’ lifelong
‘Would
COLBERT PHOTO: JIM PRISCHING
on how work is done rather than on For example, customer service involves first speech after and learning resources that in East Palo Alto, the community exploration of answers sparked
you be on
jobs, with a positive influence on labor managing others’ emotions. We typically the still-unsolved seamlessly combined to create the a biking distance from Stanford through our interactions. Hopefully,
productivity that will continue to expand dislike talking to a robot when we need to opportunity paths that resulted in but a world apart in terms of the this bus if I can have the same impact that my
murder of his
over time. And while some jobs will reach customer service, but some robotic each of us having a seat on the bus. inequities in opportunities. Chicago’s Northwestern professors had on me.
indeed go away, vast amounts of existing systems can authenticate you based on daughter near the We arrived at our destination When tutoring, I realized that West
jobs will be augmented by AI, allowing your voice. If you have the robot manage start of that school for the day, an aging Chicago the students and I lived different Check out Nichole Pinkard’s
Side was
people to do more, faster. But looking that experience, then the customer service year.” Housing Authority complex with lives. They did not have access to “My N
orthwestern Direction”
further out, many completely new jobs rep can handle more specific inquiries a high school nearby. We were to a resourced, tight-knit suburban your lived video at magazine.northwestern
will also be created in the process. The and not deal with a frustrated consumer. Joan Ehrlich spend the school day paired with community as I did, one whose reality?’ ” .edu/my-northwestern-direction.
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12 VOICES CAMPUS NEWS / STUDENT LIFE / SPORTS 13
Fulbrights Scoots makes
make their shoes from
WHAT INSPIRES ME mark around plants p. 21
the globe p. 15
Swim. Bike. Run. Heal. Doc examines
Champion triathlete and medical researcher is heart risks for
South Asian
helping develop and improve stem cell treatments. immigrants
p. 18
Scientists and triathletes are interesting,
Jacquie Godbe ’12, ’12 MS, doctoral passionate people. The fact that I get to
student in the Medical Scientist interact with both on a daily basis keeps me
Training Program (MSTP) coming back.”
“As an athlete, you’re always asking, HEALTH
‘What’s the next level? Can I do better?’ A Jacquie Godbe is a doctoral candidate
lot of that relates to the field of medicine, to
physical therapy. If I hurt myself training
in the lab of professor Samuel Stupp
’77 PhD at the Simpson Querrey Institute. Cutting
or I wonder why a muscle works the way it
does, I break out my medical textbooks and
She is helping to develop novel delivery
materials for stem cell therapies. Godbe the Cord
look it up. At the same time, with triathlon also works with patients at the Feinberg ↑ Jacquie Godbe crosses the finish line at the
training, I get hands-on experience that I School of Medicine’s Education-Centered 2015 Chicago Triathlon. Skin-like sensors
can use to educate patients about their own Medical Home and has mentored high monitor babies in the
wellness programs, their own nutrition, school students as part of MSTP’s PRISM national champion triathlete in 2016 and NICU without wires.
and how to do physical therapy and rehab Outreach Program. Godbe, who was on 2017 and an age group world champion
for everything from plantar fasciitis to the Northwestern swimming and diving in 2017. She competed professionally in
a sprained ankle. It’s a two-way street. team as an undergrad, was an age group 2018 and 2019. n interdisciplinary
A Northwestern team
has developed a
pair of soft, flexible wireless
SPRING SPEAKERS “National news can’t “By my logic, if “It’s very hard now to “My harshest, toughest sensors to replace the tangle
fill the void of local practice is what write a speculative critics are my own of wire-based sensors that
Heard reporting. We’re not makes you a good dystopia that doesn’t family and my own currently monitor babies in
hospitals’ neonatal intensive
on
in these communities. cook, then aren’t the feel like you’re community, because
We’re not covering grandmothers who reporting from this they can just smell care units (NICU) and pose
Campus
statehouses. This have been cooking world in some ways. baloney right away. a barrier to parent-baby
is how corruption for 65 years just as It is such a surreal So I work really hard cuddling and physical
thrives, when people practiced or much moment. I brace to write in a way that bonding.
are not covering it. In more than some of myself when I turn I feel is true to myself The team completed a first
Last spring an ideal world it would the greatest chefs my phone on after a and that my friends, series of studies on premature
Northwestern hosted make national news who have hourlong flight, because it just community and family babies at Prentice Women’s
a bevy of speakers more focused on local episodes about them?” feels like nothing is can look at and go Hospital and the Ann &
on campus, spanning coverage, but we’re Samin Nosrat, author out of bounds. Maybe through all the checks Robert H. Lurie Children’s
numerous subjects still figuring that out.” of Salt, Fat, Acid, half the country and balances.” Hospital of Chicago. The
and issues. Here’s a Maggie Haberman, Heat: Mastering the caught fire.” Layli Long Soldier, a researchers concluded that
sample of what they New York Times White Elements of Good Karen Russell ’03, National Book Award the wireless sensors provided
had to say. House correspondent, Cooking, as part of the award-winning author, finalist and citizen data as precise and accurate
at a discussion Contemporary Thought at the Moore Lecture of the Oglala Lakota as the data from traditional
sponsored by Speaker Series in Creative Writing Nation, at the annual monitoring systems. The
Northwestern Hillel Spring Writers’ Festival wireless patches also are
gentler on a newborn’s fragile
skin and allow for more
skin-to-skin contact with
the parent.
“We wanted to eliminate
the rat’s nest of wires
and aggressive adhesives
associated with existing
hardware systems and
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technology reach beyond its GLOBAL REACH
lack of wires. The dual wireless
sensors monitor babies’ vital
signs — heart rate, respiration Northwestern’s
rate and body temperature
— from opposite ends of the Fulbrights
Around the World
body. One sensor lies across
the baby’s chest or back,
while the other sensor wraps
around a foot. This strategy
allows physicians to gather an
infant’s core temperature as
well as body temperature from
a peripheral region. A GLOBAL CITIZEN
“Differences in temperature Colombia
between the foot and the chest Jeromy Gotschall ’18
have great clinical importance says his Fulbright
Northwestern professor Amy Paller with Taschana Taylor, in determining blood at the Universidad
Cooperativa de THE ROCK RECORD
mother of a baby in the NICU flow and cardiac function.
Colombia has offered Poland
That’s something that’s not him a tremendous Jordan Todes ’18
commonly done today,” says opportunity to grow as is researching
replace them with something even provide advanced Rogers, the Louis Simpson and an educator, improve FISH FINDER
inoceramid bivalves, an
safer, more patient-centric measurements that are Kimberly Querrey Professor his Spanish and model United Kingdom
extinct family of giant
global citizenship. “It
and more compatible with clinically important but of Materials Science and Jessie Moravek ’16 is completing a clams. His research
will be hard to leave suggests that major
parent-child interaction,” not commonly collected.” Engineering and Biomedical Colombia,” he says,
master’s degree in biodiversity and
conservation at Lancaster University evolutionary advances
says John A. Rogers, a bio- Typically, five or six Engineering and a professor of “but I hope to return
in northwest England. Her current in this group seem to
electronics pioneer, who led wires connect electrodes on neurological surgery. to Latin America soon occur during periods
focus is on river restoration and its
the technology development. each baby to monitors for Many premature babies to pursue global health of climate instability.
impact on local fish populations.
research.”
“Our wireless, battery-free, breathing, blood pressure, also suffer skin injuries from Although it rains often, Moravek has “Understanding how
skin-like devices give up blood oxygen, heartbeat and the sticky tape that adheres enjoyed hiking with friends in the life persisted and
English Lake District. adapted … is a crucial
nothing in terms of range more. Although these sensors the wires to the body. Tape
endeavor that may guide
of measurement, accuracy ensure health and safety, the can cause skin irritation, us in mitigating the
and precision — and they wires constrain the baby’s blisters and, ultimately, effects of the current
movements and pose a major infections. The sensors’ crisis,” Todes says.
Wearables on Display barrier to physical bonding. skin-saving secret lies in
The new NICU sensors “We know that skin-to-skin their lightweight nature (each DRUGS AND MASCULINITY
and other wearable contact is so important for sensor weighs about the same South Africa RITES OF PASSAGE
devices developed by John newborns — especially those as a raindrop), thin geometry Ethiopia
Henry Chen ’18 is
Rogers are on display who are sick or premature,” and soft mechanics. investigating drug use and A doctoral candidate in archaeology,
in the Wired to Wear says Amy Paller ’88 GME, Rogers estimates that the masculinity in an industrial Dil Singh Basanti is studying death
exhibition at the Museum dermatology department chair wireless sensors will appear township outside of Durban. and burial in Aksum, the capital of
of Science and Industry and Walter J. Hamlin Professor in U.S. hospitals within the He’s also worked on studies the ancient Aksumite Empire. He is
in Chicago. Devices from of Dermatology. “Yet when next three years. With support related to gender violence reconstructing the burial practices
in schools and teenage of the ancient Aksumites, who
Rogers’ laboratory include you have wires everywhere from two major nonprofits, fatherhood. The Fulbright built giant obelisks, conducted
variations of his sweat and the baby is tethered to a Rogers’ team expects to send grew out of a study abroad trip elaborate ceremonies and even
analysis patch, skin pH bed, it’s really hard to make sensors to tens of thousands and research he conducted began retrieving the bones of
sensor and UV sensor. The skin-to-skin contact.” of families in developing in the same community their dead family members as they
exhibition runs through The benefits of the countries over the next year as through a Northwestern sought to maintain connections with
Undergraduate Research their loved ones.
May 2020. Northwestern team’s new part of an international effort. Grant.
The ●Everette E. Dennis,
the Northwestern
● The family of the late professor Dale T.
Mortensen donated his Nobel Prize medal to the
● Lonnie Bunch
’19 H, secretary of
● Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly’s book
about the pathbreaking African American women
● During the course of just over a week in
January, three clients represented by the Bluhm
Ticker University in Qatar
dean, will complete his
University. He and two colleagues, Peter Diamond
of MIT and Christopher Pissarides of the London
the Smithsonian
Institution, delivered
scientists whose work enabled NASA’s first
manned mission to orbit the Earth, is the One
Legal Clinic’s Center on Wrongful Convictions
— Eric Blackmon, Patrick Pursley and Huwe
service in 2020 and School of Economics and Political Science, were the Northwestern Book One Northwestern selection for 2019–20. Burton — were exonerated or acquitted. The
join the journalism awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2010. It commencement Shetterly will give keynote addresses on the Bluhm Legal Clinic is celebrating its 50th
faculty in Evanston. is displayed in the economics department. address in June. Evanston and Chicago campuses on Oct. 17. anniversary in 2019.
NORTHWESTERN SUMMER 2019 Illustrations by Beady Eyes SUMMER 2019 NORTHWESTERN
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CAMPUS LIFE ’CAT TALES →
BrewBike
The Father
Northwestern’s
founder
Lucas Philips
of the Yield
Animal Kingdom Sign
Oklahoma highway
From tweeting foxes to elephant skeletons, the patrolman Clinton
University has a history of life on the wild side. Riggs was a student
at the Northwestern
Traffic Institute,
ast winter two was once spotted dashing now the Center for
L beavers were spotted
on the Evanston
across Deering Meadow. “It’s
a complete myth, of course,”
Public Safety, in 1939
when he created the
campus. University archivist Leonard scoffs. However, yield sign as a class
Kevin Leonard ’77, ’82 MA says anyone who visits University assignment. His
the Evanston campus has Archives will find a preserved goal was to improve
long been home to more than wildcat, donated by the Gates public safety and
Wildcats, with bats, raccoons, family in 1966. determine liability
skunks, “semi-domesticated” Northwestern’s Museum in an accident.
squirrels, foxes and coyotes of Natural History In 1870 In 1950, as a
living on or near campus. Oliver Marcy, professor of member of the Tulsa
Here are a few Northwestern natural history and physics, Police Department,
connections to the animal founded a museum of natural Riggs placed the
kingdom. history in University Hall that first yield sign at
Furpaw One of the showcased a wide variety of the most dangerous
University’s early mascots fossils, minerals and shells intersection in
was a caged bear cub from and even included skeletons the city. Within a
the Lincoln Park Zoo named of a whale and an elephant. year, the number
“Furpaw,” who made an @NorthwesternFox In May of accidents fell to
appearance before each 2012, @NorthwesternFox, a zero, and yield signs
football game in 1923. parody Twitter account, soon appeared at
Albert Wolfson’s Birds documented fox intersections across
Acclaimed biologist and sightings on the the country.
ornithologist Albert Wolfson, Evanston campus. Riggs, who retired
a professor of biological Legend of the as the administrative
sciences, did much of his Deer Deer are
research on the migratory and a rare sight on
mating habits of birds on the the Evanston
Northwestern campus. campus, but GRADS TO WATCH
Wildcat on Campus Many legend has it that if you spot
BrewBike Rides the Buzz
Northwestern tour guides one before a midterm or final,
tell the tale that a wildcat you will ace your test!
HOPE CARPINELLO/NORTHWESTERN ATHLETICS Lucas Philips’ cold-brew coffee startup is poised to expand nationally.
SPORTS
assistant chief of the ucas Philips ’19 came nearly folded, due to credit of coffee — for under $4 a
Five first-year starters, including All- department in 1970,
was also credited
L to Northwestern with
the goal of starting
and cash-flow issues —
plus Chicago’s brutal winter
cup — and employs more
than 40 people. Philips is
American pitcher Danielle Williams, helped
with the integration his own business. When he weather made it a challenge to leading an expansion of the
lead Northwestern softball to the NCAA of the department, graduated in June, Philips sell cold brew from a custom- service to other campuses in
Super Regionals, where the Wildcats developing the Tulsa stepped full time into his built bike. warmer climates, including the
lost to the eventual national runner-up, Police Academy and work as chief growth officer Now, with two permanent University of Texas at Austin.
Oklahoma. Northwestern finished the authoring several for BrewBike, the startup he locations and a mobile shop,
laws, including co-founded as a first-year as well as a subscription Read more about the
season with a 47-13 record, the third- one that prohibits student in fall 2015. service for on-campus Class of 2019 in our
most wins in program history, and most convicted felons from Philips admits there were organizations, BrewBike has “Grads Go Forward” roundup
conference wins (21) in program history. carrying firearms. times when the coffee retailer sold more than 50,000 cups at bit.ly/NU_2019Grads.
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RESEARCH
Bad News for Egg Lovers,
Diagnosing ‘Art Acne’
and other multiples
in Illinois between
newborn and 17 years
WELLNESS of age. Jennifer
Tackett, director of
South Asians’ clinical psychology
at Northwestern,
Heart Health Risks 1
is the project’s co-
principal investigator.
Namratha Kandula is co-leading a study to
understand high rates of heart disease among CUT YOUR 3
South Asian immigrants. EGG INTAKE
BLISTERS ON
A Feinberg School O’KEEFFE ART
amratha Kandula from heart disease compared of Medicine study
N distinctly remembers
the phone call from
with other ethnic groups.
Kandula, associate
found that adults
who consumed more
Pimple-like protrusions
on many of Georgia
India that brought the news of professor of medicine and eggs and dietary O’Keeffe’s paintings
her 56-year-old grandfather’s preventive medicine at the cholesterol had a had long concerned
sudden death. Feinberg School of Medicine, is significantly higher art conservationists. A
“It was pretty shocking,” working to identify the factors risk of cardiovascular multidisciplinary team
she recalls, “because he didn’t that lead to heart disease in disease and death from led by researchers
necessarily fit the profile [of a this community. As a principal any cause. The large at Northwestern and
heart attack victim]. He didn’t investigator for the Mediators study, which looked at the Georgia O’Keeffe
smoke. He was relatively of Atherosclerosis in South pooled data collected Museum in Santa Fe,
active and was someone who Asians Living in America in six different studies
you wouldn’t think had an (MASALA) study, Kandula is totaling nearly 30,000
unhealthy diet. Many of us in partnering with researchers adults, found that
the South Asian community at the University of California, eating 300 milligrams
Tm qui con estinu fgdm
have family members who San Francisco, to understand non pa qui dolutam. of dietary cholesterol
have died at a young age from the risk factors faced by per day correlated
a heart attack.” South Asians and improve to a 17% higher risk
South Asians account heart disease prevention and of cardiovascular
for 60% of the world’s heart treatment. The study, now in disease. A single
disease patients. And that its ninth year, has followed U.S. tend to be more highly they are not as overweight as understand whether the high you feel lucky if you see your large egg contains
trend continues for the more than 1,100 South Asians educated. Despite that, they other populations. “But even risk for heart disease and research actually have a of 186 milligrams of N.M., found that the
5.4 million South Asian in Chicago and the Bay Area. have low levels of physical though they’re not overweight, stroke is similar in second- community or policy impact cholesterol. protrusions are metal
immigrants in the U.S. Their “There are some unique activity that partly contribute they tend to have a lot of fat generation South Asian in your lifetime,” Kandula soaps resulting from
risk for heart disease is 2 ½ things about this group that to their higher risk of stroke around their internal organs. Americans and how changing says. “We’ve seen that with a chemical reaction
times that of the general U.S. don’t fit with the patterns and death from heart attack. And we think those hidden cultural and behavioral MASALA.” 2 between the metal
population. South Asians — that we understand about And they develop high blood fat stores inside the body patterns influence their health. ions in lead and zinc
the second–fastest growing heart disease and stroke,” pressure, diabetes and heart contribute to higher risk.” Progress is already being On Capitol Hill TWO OF A KIND pigments and the
minority group in the U.S. — Kandula says. For example, disease at younger ages — five Kandula, whose parents made. In 2015 the American In 2019 U.S. Rep. Pramila fatty acids within
have the highest death rate South Asian immigrants in the to 10 years earlier than other came to the U.S. from India Diabetes Association changed Jayapal ’90 MBA, the Northwestern and the the paint’s binding
ethnic groups — even though for their medical residencies, its guidelines to recommend first Indian American University of Illinois media. As a result
they don’t fit the classic risk is focusing on second- screening Asian Americans woman to serve in the Urbana-Champaign of the discovery, the
“Many of us in the South Asian patterns.
One of the most notable
generation South Asians, both
in terms of their risk factors
for diabetes at a lower BMI,
and the American Heart
House of Representatives,
introduced legislation to
have partnered to
launch the Illinois
Northwestern team,
led by professors Marc
community have family members differences is that South Asian and their role as conduits Association now recognizes increase awareness of Twins Project (ITP), Walton and Oliver
who have died at a young age Americans develop risk factors
at a lower body mass index
of health information to
their immigrant parents.
South Asians as a high-risk
group for cardiovascular
South Asian heart risk and
provide more funding for
the first-ever such
database in the state.
Cossairt, developed a
handheld tool to map
from a heart attack.” (BMI), Kandula explains, and She is planning a study to disease. “As a researcher, treatment strategies. It will include twins and monitor artworks.
NORTHWESTERN SUMMER 2019 SUMMER 2019 NORTHWESTERN20 INNOVATION 21
PINEAPPLE STYLISH
ON TOP THREADS
One of the The stitching
primary materials serves both a
used in Scoots is functional and
Piñatex, a natural stylistic purpose.
textile made The customizable
from pineapple color thread adds
leaves that can be contrast to the
dyed a variety of sole and bonds
STUDENT ENTREPRENEUR colors. Scoots will the shoe together.
launch with four
color options —
Avoiding a Meltdown paprika, charcoal,
chocolate and
oatmeal. Scoots
Brent Chase is creating wearable smart are also made
technology that can help people with autism from corn-based
PLA, a type of
spectrum disorder detect and mitigate biodegradable
uncontrollable emotional outbursts. Brent Chase, right,
plastic that helps
maintain the
is developing smart shoe’s stability.
apparel to mitigate the
rent Chase knows achieving professional and effects of meltdowns
B the pain and
helplessness of
social independence.
Alec is the inspiration
experienced by people
with autism spectrum
THE INSOLE
STORY
watching a loved one go for Chase’s Products for disorder, like his
brother, Alec. The removable
through a physically and Autism Lifestyle (PAL), insole consists of
emotionally damaging maker of smart apparel for three layers — a
autistic meltdown. people with autism spectrum parents or caretakers of the employment and become natural cotton
canvas, a natural
Chase, a master’s student disorder. He and a team of possibility of a meltdown. more independent.
latex foam and a
in biomedical engineering, colleagues at Northwestern Caregivers can then try The PAL team is thin layer of cork.
describes a meltdown as and the Rochester Institute to mitigate the effects — continuing to develop The cotton lining
“an intense response to an of Technology, his undergrad remind the person to breathe hardware for the biometric lets air circulate,
overwhelming situation. alma mater, are working to and remove him or her from sensors. PAL, a subsidiary keeping feet cool
and dry. The latex
It’s like an extreme anxiety develop a shirt that collects the situation. People who of Gaia Wearables, is a
provides cushion
attack — times a million. biometric data to help are affected by autism and resident team at The Garage, and support for
It’s a hurricane, tornado, warn loved ones about an their caregivers can, over Northwestern’s student the foot and
blizzard, end-of-the-world imminent meltdown. time, begin to understand startup incubator. Chase, improves the
situation where everyone can The shirt includes what triggers a meltdown CEO of Gaia Wearables, hopes flexibility of the
cork midsole.
be a victim. You want to help biosensors — about half and proactively avoid such to release the biometric shirt
them, but you can only do the size of a deck of cards situations. by early 2020.
so much.” — to measure stress levels For people affected by “We hope that our
Chase’s younger brother, through physiological data autism, Chase hopes his product has a big impact,
Alec, was diagnosed with such as heart rate. When wearables will help decrease but this is also a call to
autism spectrum disorder certain signals are detected, the number of meltdowns, arms for other people and INVENTION
(ASD) when he was 3 years the sensors send information promote self-regulation and, organizations to innovate
old. Alec’s meltdowns, Chase
says, have kept him from
to a mobile app that alerts
the person and their
in the long term, increase
opportunities to secure
and design with purpose,”
Chase says. Scoots Footwear CORKED
The Scoots sole
Americans throw away about 300 million pairs of shoes each is made from
STARTUP SUCCESS year. Almost all of them end up in landfills, where they can take Portuguese
cork, which is
centuries to break down. That waste inspired David Costello, a harvested every
Medical device company Rhaeos placed fourth in the Zell Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management, to launch a new summer by hand.
The natural latex-
2019 Rice Business Plan Competition, the world’s largest plant-based footwear brand called Scoots as part of Kellogg’s New
L AUREL CHAMBERL AIN
coated cork sole
student startup competition, in April. Rhaeos, founded Venture curriculum. After 15 months of interviewing and planning molds to the foot,
making the shoe
through a collaboration between professor John A. — and taking classes at the Chicago School of Shoemaking — more comfortable
Rogers and the Department of Neurological Surgery, is Costello and his seven-member team launched a Kickstarter over time. Scoots
working on getting FDA approval for a device that would campaign in June. Costello plans for a full launch in 2020. Here’s are manufactured
in the north of
help detect shunt failures in patients with hydrocephalus. what goes into making Scoots’ first product, the PA1 (PineApple 1). Portugal.
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← Clara Bien Peek, left, assistant Like Onyema, Carroll is
professor of biochemistry and SCHOLARSHIPS
thankful for her scholarship.
molecular genetics and medicine
(endocrinology), and Rubye
She has also appreciated the
Peyser, a research technician,
in the Shilatifard Laboratory at Donor Challenge Supports chance to get to know her
benefactors. Carroll attended
Law School
Northwestern Medicine the Newcombs’ tailgate before
a Northwestern football
taking advantage of weekly game, and when she won
seminars, annual symposia Benefactors are creating new opportunities for students as an award for best speaker at
and training made possible part of the Scholarship Challenge for Today and Tomorrow. a moot court competition,
by the gift from Simpson Jon Newcomb wrote her a
and Querrey. congratulatory note. “The
M
Shilatifard’s own y family taught me to inspire benefactors to from the McCormick School Newcombs gave this money
investigations focus on that the purpose of life create scholarship funds. The of Engineering, and Ann on faith, and I want them to
epigenetic modifications is service to others,” campaign has funded nearly Newcomb Covey. be proud of me,” Carroll says.
of human chromatin — says Emelia Carroll ’19 JD, 40 scholarships so far. The Newcombs first met For Newcomb, creating
the basic unit of our who recently graduated Grateful for the support Carroll, who received their a scholarship has been an
chromosomes — which from Northwestern Pritzker that previous generations scholarship in each of her incredible experience.
regulate gene expression. School of Law and will soon of alumni provided for his three years as a student, at “If you’re thinking about
He and his collaborators have start her career at the Office undergraduate education Northwestern Law’s inaugural endowing a fund,” he says, “I
performed groundbreaking of the Colorado State Public at the Weinberg College of Celebration of Scholarships can tell you that the emotional
studies on epigenetic-targeted Defender. Carroll chose Arts and Sciences and at the in 2017. This year’s event reward has far exceeded what
therapeutics for childhood Northwestern Law for its Law School, Jon Newcomb took place in the school’s we could have imagined when
leukemia, childhood brain outstanding reputation, made his first gift of $5 to Lanny and Sharon Martin we made the gift.”
cancer and adult triple- journals and clinics, and Northwestern in 1979. He now Atrium. Nnenna Onyema
RESEARCH
negative breast cancer. a scholarship endowed by volunteers for both schools ’20 JD, president of the Black
Such research, which links Kathy and Jon Newcomb and serves on the Law Board. Law Students Association
Understanding the Impact basic science to potential
medical advances, has
’79, ’82 JD helped make it
possible for her to attend.
Currently he is a member
of his 40th undergraduate
and recipient of the Kruse
Family Scholarship, addressed
of Environment on Genes
widespread implications. For The Kathy and Jon reunion committee as donors, thanking them for
example, understanding how Newcomb Scholarship was well. Jon Newcomb is using their resources to make
and why gene expression may established through the vice president, deputy Northwestern Law even better
The Simpson Querrey Center for Epigenetics investigates how cause cellular dysfunction Scholarship Challenge for general counsel and chief for current students. “Your
environmental factors can modify genes and affect human health. in the initial stages of breast Today and Tomorrow, part of information counsel in the contributions allow students
cancer could improve early Northwestern Law’s Motion law department at Comcast to come here and truly thrive
detection of the disease. to Lead campaign. The Cable Communications. at this institution,” Onyema
G
↑ Scholarship recipient
enetic mutations — Created in 2017, Northwestern’s SQE recently moved to In 2018 the journal Nature challenge, supported by the He and his wife are the said. “They are grateful Nnenna Onyema spoke at
inherited from our Simpson Querrey Center for the new Louis A. Simpson Medicine published a study Pritzker Family Foundation, parents of Jonathan Brooks for that. And I am grateful Northwestern Law’s 2019
parents and carried Epigenetics (SQE) encourages and Kimberly K. Querrey by Shilatifard and his offers a one-to-two match Newcomb ’15, who graduated for that.” Celebration of Scholarships.
from birth — can increase collaborations to illuminate Biomedical Research colleagues that identified
our risk of developing how environmental factors Center on Northwestern’s a mechanism to slow the
diseases from schizophrenia affect the human genome, Chicago campus. growth of cancerous tumors
to cancer. But environmental impacting individuals and “Understanding epigenetics caused by an epigenetic
factors also play a critical their health. is at the central core of imbalance. Northwestern
role in determining who Bringing together experts understanding many human investigators have since
“Before the campaign, we were thinking
develops certain maladies in biochemistry, molecular diseases,” says SQE Director launched a clinical trial that about what we could do beyond our
and who doesn’t. Identical genetics, computational Ali Shilatifard, who also is could lead to better survival annual contribution. The challenge
twins, for example, start biology, clinical medicine and the Robert Francis Furchgott rates among patients with
with the same DNA, but as other fields, the center is Professor of Biochemistry and late-stage bladder cancer.
made the scholarship attractive because
they age, variables such as advancing epigenetic research Pediatrics and chairman of In the coming decade, our family could leave a legacy, and I
diet, exercise, emotional to better understand, diagnose biochemistry and molecular Shilatifard says, “My hope could also honor my yearly philanthropic
experiences and chemical and treat disease. A $10 million genetics at Feinberg. Already, is that from the discoveries
exposure can contribute gift from University trustees SQE has attracted nearly 200 made at Northwestern
commitments to the Law Board and
to very different health and generous supporters faculty affiliates from across Medicine and SQE, we can the Law School Fund.”
outcomes. Louis A. Simpson ’58 and Northwestern’s Evanston develop a series of epigenetic- — Jon Newcomb
JIM PRISCHING
The growing field of Kimberly K. Querrey fuels the and Chicago campuses. targeted therapeutics for
epigenetics studies the effects work of the center. Housed Students and faculty are the treatment of a variety
of environment on gene in Northwestern University seizing opportunities for of human diseases, ← Emelia Carroll, center, is the recipient of a scholarship
activation and expression. Feinberg School of Medicine, collaborative research and including cancer.” created by Jon and Kathy Newcomb.
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