Hewlett Fund Projects

Applicant	Department	Year	Hewlett Project
Franziska Lys	German	07-08	42 video iPods with the necessary protection plans and accessories
Elisa Baena	Spanish and Portuguese	07-08	Support while starting a Writing Center in the Spanish department
Maria Teresa Villanueva	Spanish and Portuguese	07-08	New course development, Spanish for Professions: Health Care 205-0
Rifka Cook, Shannon Millikin, Deborah Rosenberg, and Nelida Zepeda-Aubeneau	Spanish and Portuguese	07-08	Redevelopment of the Intermediate Spanish Video Program
Benay Stein	Spanish and Portuguese	07-08	New course development, Spanish for Professions: Business 206-0
Patricia Fahey	Spanish and Portuguese	07-08	Website development, The Spanish Civil War: Images and Words
Brad Zakarin and Chris Hayden	Undergraduate Junior/Senior Thesis	07-08	Pilot program of Honors Thesis Preparation Guide for Juniors
Jeff Rice and William Reno	History and Political Science	06-07	Travel to tribunal for Teaching International Justice: The Rwanda War Crimes Tribunals
Kearsley Stewart	Anthropology	06-07	Ghana Advance team to match a CIRA grant
Cynthia Robin and Doug Bolender	Anthropology	06-07	Anthropology GIS laboratory setup
Hsiu-ling Lin	Program of African and Asian Languages	06-07	Overhaul of AAL 213-1, Chinese III
Dan Garrison	Classics	06-07	New course development, The Human Body in Ancient Greece
Junko Sato	Program of African and Asian Languages	06-07	Online Reading Comprehension tool for Japanese III
Mel Ulmer	Physics	06-07	Supplemental equipment for a new undergraduate course in Nanolithography (Physics 358)
Jeanne Dunning	Art Theory & Practice	06-07	Enhancing digital art capabilities in video, sound and still photography
Teresa Horton	Animal Behavior and Ecology	05-06	Field studies tools for data acquisition and analysis
Sonia Garcia and Chyi Chung	Spanish and Portuguese	05-06	Review and revision of Spanish placement exam
Thomas Durkin	Sociology	05-06	QSR N7 software licensing for 3 years
Hannah Feldman	Art History	05-06	Art and Visual Culture in the Muslim World
Steve Jacobsen	Geological Sciences	05-06	Petrographic microscopes
Lis Elliot and Rajka Smiljanic	Linguistics and Russian	05-06	New course development, Russian Acoustic Phonetics
Franziska Lys	German	05-06	Completion of the Drehort Neubrandenburg Project

Honors and Achievements

Physics and Astronomy professor Jim Sauls has been awarded the Bardeen Prize for his work on superconductivity.

Art Theory & Practice MFA candidate Rachel Niffenegger has been accepted into the two-year, De Ateliers residency program in Amsterdam.

Sarah Jacoby, assistant professor of Religious Studies, has been awarded an ACLS Grant for 2012-2013.

The History Department's Dyan Elliott and Melissa Macauley were offered fellowships at the National Humanities Center for 2012-2013.

Krista Thompson, associate professor of Art History, has been awarded an ACLS fellowship for 2012-2013.

Chemistry professor Tobin Marks received the 2012 National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences.

Mentions in the Media

Michelle Obama, Paradox
"Michelle Obama is a genuine paradox," said Darlene Clark Hine, a professor of African American studies and history at Northwestern University. Hine's lecture, part of a black studies conference at the university last week, argued that the first lady is a "transformative, liberationist" figure -- despite her interest in domestic issues and the long list of magazine cover stories focused on topics such as Obama's approach to motherhood or the importance of healthful eating. washingtonpost.com April 16, 2012 Full story

Seismic hazards: Japan earthquake and other tectonic surprises challenge scientific assumptions
"It's almost impossible to make a sensible earthquake hazard map," argues Northwestern University geophysicist Seth Stein.... "We call this the 'whack-a-mole model' of earthquake hazard mapping. The mole will come up the same hole that it went down," Stein said. And that's rarely the case. washingtonpost.com March 9, 2012 Full story