Spring/Summer 2007 - Volume 8, Issue 1
From the Dean
Our students are multi-talented and highly curious about the world. We constantly challenge ourselves to provide them with the best opportunities for their intellectual growth. I am delighted that these new programs will provide additional pathways and rigorous instruction for the next generation of Weinberg College students. Read More »
Featured Articles
In Memoriam: Richard Leopold
Professor Richard Leopold, eminent scholar of American diplomatic history and world-class teacher and friend, passed away in Evanston in November at age 94. A memorial service was held in Harris Hall in January. Read More »
In Memoriam: Michael Dacey
A memorial service in Alice Millar Chapel in January celebrated the life of longtime professor and Weinberg College senior associate dean Michael Dacey. He passed away in December in Evanston after a short illness. He was 74. He is best known at Northwestern for establishing the hugely successful program Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (MMSS), for his careful mentoring of students writing senior theses, and for his warm and casual personal style which invited friendship across generations. Read More »
Award Winners
Nine Weinberg seniors gathered with their parents and Dean Linzer last fall to receive Marcy, James, and Bonbright awards for achieving the highest averages in their fields during their junior year. Read More »
Development: Silverman Hall to Break New Ground
At the end of March, ground was broken for a new center for biomedical research. It will bring together chemists, biologists, and engineers to develop new medicines and diagnostics. Read More »
Serial Success: Forensic Anthropologist Kathy Reichs
Reichs’s books have spawned a new generation of forensic crime fiction, but what sets her apart is her focus on meticulously detailed, real-life science. She writes while furnishing consulting services to two agencies, the office of North Carolina’s chief medical examiner and the examiner for the province of Quebec in Montreal. (She has been on leave from UNC since 1998.) In 2004 her books made the big leap from print to screen in the Fox television series Bones, which regularly attracts between nine and ten million viewers and is considered a cult hit. Read More »
The Athlete and the Artist
Say “varsity athlete” and a host of adjectives comes to mind: competitive, physically aggressive, confident. Perhaps even “meat eater” or at least “carbo loader.” “Art major” conjures different modifiers: sensitive, observant, quirky, possibly even (gasp!) “vegan.” For a handful of Northwestern students, the terms “athlete” and “artist” go together, as do an interesting mix of personal qualities, talents, goals, and ways of seeing. Read More »
Darfur: How Many Have Died and Why
Thanks to the work of a pair of policy statisticians, the world has been put on notice that the death toll in Darfur is staggering, In a September 2006 article in the journal Science, John Hagan and Alberto Palloni set forth a conclusive argument that deaths in the conflict were in the hundreds of thousands rather than the tens of thousands, as had been previously reported. After past genocides against Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, and Rwandans, many claimed ignorance. This time, with scientifically defensible numbers adding weight to reporters’ eyewitness accounts, there is no denying the scope of the tragedy as it still unfolds. Read More »
Purple Activists: Using the Law to Keep Things Green
It was around the time Joe Mann, '94 came to campus, the early ’90s, that faculty in the College, anticipating an explosion in public interest in environmental issues, created an innovative major in environmental science. Now students come to Northwestern specifically for its expertise in the field. Read More »
