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Thursday, April 17, 2014

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ASG swears in new president NU partners with

program in India

By becca savransky

daily senior staffer @beccasavransky

Weinberg juniors Julia Watson and Erik Zorn were sworn in on Wednesday as the new Associated Student Government president and executive vice president. Watson will take the position of former president Ani Ajith, and Zorn will assume the role of former executive vice president Alex Van Atta. Van Atta was sworn in as the vice president for student groups, which he will serve as for the next year. After being officially sworn out of his position, Ajith made a short speech thanking Senate and encouraging their continued devotion to the University, noting he felt “honored and privileged” to serve as ASG president for the past year. “We’ve stuck to it because we love it, because we love doing it,” Ajith said “It, in this case, is serving. It’s being there for the other members of the community. It’s that place that I found in this community. I found my place to be serving others, helping others, supporting them in achieving what they wanted to achieve.” ASG also confirmed candidates for the academic committee, rules committee and cabinet selection committee. Gene Sunshine, senior vice president of business and finance, and Jim Hurley, associate vice president of budget, also spoke to Senate members about the University’s budget process. Sunshine, who will be stepping down from his position at the end of the academic year, explained

By Jordan Harrison

the daily northwestern @MedillJordan

Nathan Richards/Daily Senior Staffer

PASSING THE TORCH Outgoing ASG President Ani Ajith swears in Julia Watson as the new ASG president for the coming year. Watson’s running mate, Erik Zorn, was also sworn in Wednesday night.

several areas where the University’s annual budget goes, including research, salaries and general University needs. A large part of the annual budget currently goes to academic salaries, with staff and student salaries also being awarded a significant

amount of money each year. Hurley also discussed the future construction updates campus will be seeing over the next several years, including the » See SENATE, page 7

Northwestern entered into a joint partnership with the Bridge School of Management to offer professional certificate programs in India, co-taught by NU and Bridge School professors. Provost Dan Linzer signed an agreement for the partnership with Bridge School director Rajiv Verma on March 20. Linzer said he thought the partnership offered a new strategy in NU’s efforts to offer education internationally. “The larger global context gives us new approaches to educating students in partnerships with other institutions,” Linzer said. “We’ve been exploring a whole range of strategies in how we globalize, from having our own school in Doha, Qatar to having joint degree programs with various institutions around the world including Tel Aviv University in Israel.” The first program launched through the partnership will be a certificate offered in New Delhi in predictive business analytics, a discipline that uses data analysis and modeling to influence business decisions. “The program is meant to be robust to lots and lots of business contexts,” said

Joel Shapiro, associate dean of academic programs for the School of Continuing Studies. “There’s a lot of analytics in marketing ... and in finanThe larger cial risk, but we are really global context teaching it gives us new to include those but approaches also lots of to educating other indusstudents in tries that can benefit from partnerships data-driven with other decisionmaking.” institutions. Shapiro Dan Linzer, said the program’s cur- University provost riculum would blend online video and other content with in-person lectures. “It’s a partnership model where Northwestern faculty will be teaching it online from the local Evanston and Chicago area,” he said. “We’re going to be providing some asynchronous material like recorded video and interactive media.” In addition to the online materials, NU and local faculty will hold live lectures remotely and in person.

» See BRIDGE, page 7

Researchers talk family programs NU profs named Guggenheim fellows By Julian Gerez

the daily northwestern @JGerez_news

By Annie bruce

daily senior staffer @anniefb13

Source: Kellogg School of Management

Daniel Diermeier

Source: McCormick School of Engineering

Jiaxing Huang

Two members of the Northwestern faculty were chosen as 2014 Guggenheim Fellows, a prestigious award given to a small number of individuals each year. Daniel Diermeier, an IBM professor of regulation and competitive practice, and Jiaxing Huang, an associate professor of materials science and engineering in McCormick, were given the award this year. The fellowship, given by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, provides artists, scholars and scientists with grants to further their work in a particular area of study. This year, the fellowship was awarded to 178 people, according to the Guggenheim Foundation website. Huang said he is excited and encouraged to receive this award. “(I) feel very humbled, because there have been many great scientists who won this before,” Huang said. “I’m most excited that this fellowship will allow me to focus on what I’m really interested in.” About 3,000 people applied for the prestigious award this year. During the application process, candidates needed to explain the work they plan to do or would continue to do if they were chosen. Huang said he has been working on his research, which focuses on studying interactions between nanoparticles, for a few years. “We propose to use mechanical deformation to change the shape of » See guggenheim, page 7

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More than 100 people, including Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and State Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) attended a talk Wednesday evening by Northwestern researchers about advancing the education and income of parents and children simultaneously through two-generation programs. The briefing, which featured speakers from the NU Institute for Policy Research and was held at Evanston Township High School, followed an announcement in February that the Evanston Community Foundation and the IPR would collaborate on a two-generation pilot program in Evanston. Speakers discussed the challenges facing parents completing educational degrees, how income disparities in families can affect children

Local woman named influential LGBT figure Out Magazine named Evanston resident Jennifer Pritzker one of the 50 “most influential LGBT voices in American culture” on Tuesday. Pritzker, the 63-year-old granddaughter of the Hyatt hotel chain founder, is the first transgender billionaire and a member of Forbes 400 family, one of the richest families in America. She is listed as No. 23 on the list, ranking before people such as actress Ellen Page (no. 29),

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My generation Northwestern researchers Sara Goldrick-Rab, Mesmin Destin and Teresa Sommer discuss advancing the education and income of parents and children simultaneously through two-generation programs. More than 100 people attended the briefing.

and difficulties with repaying student loans. Sara Goldrick-Rab, a social policy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said “once upon a

time” the cost of going to college was reasonably low, but that has shifted dramatically.

journalist Don Lemon (no. 27), fashion designer Marc Jacobs (no. 39) and celebrity RuPaul Charles (no. 49). Born James N. Pritzker, the philanthropist and retired army lieutenant colonel publicly announced her decision to change genders in August 2013. Pritzker is currently CEO and president at private wealth management firm Tawani Enterprises. Pritzker graduated from Loyola University of Chicago with a degree in history. In 2003, she founded the Pritzker Military Museum & Library with materials she collected pertaining to military history. The library focuses on research and aims to help the public better understand military history and veterans.

In 1995, Pritzker founded the Tawani Foundation, which works to preserve military history and historical sites. The foundation’s mission is to emphasize the importance of the “citizen solider,” preserve historical sites and recognize achievements of military personnel. Through her work with the military, Pritzker has received more than 15 awards recognizing nearly 30 years of service. When she retired from the Illinois National Guard, it bestowed on her the honorary status of colonel. Ellen DeGeneres was named the number one most influential LGBT voice by the magazine.

» See GENERATION, page 7

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