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Employer Week ~ Company Day

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Engineering Career Development (ECD)

Employer Week ~ Company Day Brought to you by Engineering Career Development (ECD) Date: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday during the week of October...

multi-day

Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum Exhibitions

Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology is a traveling exhibition that considers kinship, healing, and restorative interventions as...

multi-day

Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum Exhibitions

Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology is a traveling exhibition that considers kinship, healing, and restorative interventions as...

multi-day

REACT Core Facility "For the General User" Series

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Catalysis and Surface Science (CCSS)

Join members of the Reactor Engineering and Catalyst Testing (REACT) Core Facility for an event series "For the General User." Title:...

Nov
13
2024

Northwestern-Hamburg Exchange Program | Info Session

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM, sponsored by Trienens Institute

Northwestern-Hamburg Exchange Program | Join an Informational Lunch  Are you a graduate student with a demonstrated interest in decarbonization, sustainability, or...

Nov
8
2024

Global Engineering Treks Information Session

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Global Initiatives

McCormick Global Initiatives offers several non-credit, short-term global field-immersion programs for undergraduate students. In these programs, students will visit global...

Nov
8
2024

PBC Seminar: Chicago Botanic Gardens - Dr. Alicia Foxx

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Topic: Enabling an inclusive community of practice to leverage the wealth of environmental data for challenges in the environmental sciences.  Please...

Nov
1
2024

CCSS Seminar Series

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Catalysis and Surface Science (CCSS)

Center for Catalysis and Surface Science (CCSS) Seminar Series Friday, November 1, 2024 | 12-1pm CT Ryan Hall, 4003 | 2190 Campus...

Oct
25
2024

PBC Seminar: Chicago Botanic Gardens Short Talks

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Presentations by: Dr. Andrea Kramer Dr. Hector Ortiz Dr. Nyree Zerega Dr. Alica Fox Dr. Rebecca Barak Refreshments will be served starting at 10:30am and the...

Oct
24
2024

Grad Career Lab: LinkedIn & AI Secrets

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Engineering Career Development (ECD)

LinkedIn & AI Secrets  Brought to you by Engineering Career Development (ECD) & The Office for Professional Education (OPE)  Uncover the hidden...

Oct
24
2024

Office of Fellowships Workshop

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Environmental Policy and Culture

Please join us for this EPC-sponsored workshop on grants and fellowships with Jason Kelly Roberts, Assoc. Director for Outreach &...

Oct
21
2024

FoundHer Stories | A Fireside Chat with Mariana Matus

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Innovation and New Ventures Office

Northwestern University's Querrey InQbation Lab is hosting the FoundHer Stories series to amplify the startup stories of women scientist entrepreneurs. Learn...

Oct
19
2024

Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Career Fair

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Engineering Career Development (ECD)

Co-hosted by the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Engineering Career Development and Engineering Career Development (ECD) Office Saturday, October...

Oct
18
2024

CCSS Student Seminar Series

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Catalysis and Surface Science (CCSS)

Center for Catalysis and Surface Science (CCSS) Student Seminar Series Friday, October 18, 2023 | 12-1pm CT Ryan Hall, 4003 | 2190...

Oct
18
2024

PBC Seminar: Chicago Botanic Garden's Short Talks

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Department Intro: PBC Short Talks and Q&A Jeremie Fant Louise Egerton-Warburton Gretel Kiefer Stuart Wagenius Paul CaraDonna This event will take place at the Chicago Botanic...

Oct
17
2024

SWE Industry Day (Engineering) Career Fair

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Engineering Career Development (ECD)

Sponsored by NU Society of Women Engineers Student Organization and Engineering Career Development (ECD) Office Thursday, October 17, 2024, 2:00pm –...

Oct
14
2024

CIERA Connections: Elysse Longiotti

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by CIERA - CIERA Connections

Elysse Longiotti Associate Director, Student Career Advising at Northwestern University Title: Job Search Resources & SMART Goal Setting Abstract: Join Northwestern Career Advancement’s PhD...

Oct
7
2024

Fall Tech Career Fair

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Engineering Career Development (ECD)

Sponsored by Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering Career Development Office Date: Monday, October 7,...

Oct
4
2024

WCCIAS Ice Cream Social

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Environmental Policy and Culture

Welcome back to campus for the new academic year! We hope you will join us for an informal ice cream...

Oct
4
2024

CCSS October Seminar: Maureen Tang

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Catalysis and Surface Science (CCSS)

Description: The Center for Catalysis and Surface Science will host Maureen Tang, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Drexel...

Sep
27
2024

TEDxChicago 2024: Lighting the Way

2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Trienens Institute

Two Northwestern University engineers — Mark C. Hersam and Alessandro Rotta Loria — will present at this year’s TEDxChicago, an...

Sep
27
2024

PBC Seminar Series: Dr. John Clark

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Title: "When an Evolutionary Biologist's Dream Becomes a Taxonomist's Worst Nightmare: The Challenge of Convergent Evolution in a Neotropical Plant...

Sep
23
2024

Visiting Lecturer: Dan Hickman, Dow Chemical Company

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Catalysis and Surface Science (CCSS)

The Center for Catalysis and Surface Science, in partnership with the Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy, the...

Aug
6
2024

Discussion: We're All Plastic People Now

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Trienens Institute

From the Vernon Public Library: Plastic pollution poses a significant threat to our environment. Scientists have discovered plastic pollution in...

Jun
10
2024

MS Defense for PBC Student Fiorina Talaba

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Title of Presentation: “Thistles in a Pickle: Assessing variation in floral scent and pollinators of Cirsium pitcheri heads according to weevil...

Jun
6
2024

CMQT Monthly Meeting

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction (CMQT)

The CMQT monthly meetings host speakers, as well as provide tutorials,  research updates and facilitate team collaboration.  For more information...

Jun
4
2024

MS Defense for PBC Student Wyatt Mosiman

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM, sponsored by Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Title of Presentation: “Heritability of Fire-Stimulated Flowering in a Long-Lived Perennial.” This event will be held in a hybrid format in the...

May
31
2024

PhD Dissertation Presentation: PhD Candidate Amelia Litz

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Speaker: PhD Candidate Amelia Litz Title:  "Phenological Drivers and Consequences for Solitary Bees"   This event is planned to be hybrid in the seminar...

May
31
2024

Invited Speaker Seminar: Dr. Felix Grewe

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Speaker: Dr. Felix Grewe "Bioinformatics, Genomics, Evolution, Lichen"   This event is planned to be hybrid in the seminar room at the Chicago...

May
24
2024

Invited Speaker Seminar: Dr. Gabriela Nunez-Mir

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Speaker: Dr. Gabriela Nunez-Mir Title:  “Zooming Out: Macroscale dynamics of an invasive forest defoliator”.   This event is planned to be hybrid in the...

May
17
2024

PBC Seminar PhD Candidate Speaker: Jacquelyn Fitzgerald

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Speaker: PhD Candidate Jacquelyn Fitzgerald  Title: "Patterns of Trait Variation in Bumble Bees""   This event is planned to be hybrid in the...

May
3
2024

PBC Seminar PhD Student/Candidate Speakers: Jacob Zeldin and Rory Schiafo

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Speaker: PhD student Jacob Zeldin Title: "Functional Trait Structure, Diversity, and Coordination: considering intraspecific variation in community and restoration ecology" Speaker: Title: "TBD" This...

May
2
2024

CMQT Monthly Meeting

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction (CMQT)

The CMQT monthly meetings host speakers, as well as provide tutorials,  research updates and facilitate team collaboration.  For more information...

May
1
2024

2024 Northwestern Sustainability Lecture Series

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Trienens Institute

On May 1, the Northwestern Sustainability Lecture Series will return for another year of talks by world-renowned experts in energy,...

Apr
25
2024

Shaping Environmental Policy: SPS Alumni Panel

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by SPS: Special Events

In Partnership with MA in Public Policy and Administration Student Leadership Council Please join Northwestern University School of Professional Studies (SPS)...

Apr
23
2024

MS Defense for PBC Student Melissa Duda

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Title of Presentation: "Using reproductive biology to assess the potential impact of hybridization on rare species; a study of populations of...

Apr
22
2024

Sustainability Career Panel with NU Alums

5:00 PM - 6:45 PM, sponsored by CESR

The Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience invites you to attend our Sustainability Career Panel on Monday, April 22nd at...

Apr
22
2024

MS Defense for PBC Student Kathryn Dawdy

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Title of Presentation: "The effects of advanced plant phenology on herbivory and plant demography" This event will be held in the seminar...

Apr
15
2024

PEPH Hybrid Event: Karen I. Winey, UPenn

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Trienens Institute

The Program on Plastics, Ecosystems, and Public Health (PEPH) will host Karen I. Winey, Harold Pender Professor of Engineering and...

Apr
15
2024

MS Defense for PBC Student Alison Branz

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Title of Presentation: "From Shoots to Roots to Soil: The impact of mowing on lawn and lawn alternative grasses" This event will...

Apr
10
2024

Kellogg Climate Conference 2024

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Kellogg Energy and Sustainability Club (KESC)

Join us on Wednesday, April 10, for the highly anticipated second edition of the Kellogg Climate Conference! The goal of...

Apr
4
2024

CMQT Monthly Meeting

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction (CMQT)

The CMQT monthly meetings host speakers, as well as provide tutorials,  research updates and facilitate team collaboration.  For more information...

Apr
2
2024

Why Pollinators Matter & What You Can Do

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by sustainNU

Pollinators are critical to nearly all of earth's ecosystems. Join Jackie Fitzgerald, PhD Candidate in Plant Biology and Conservation, and...

Mar
18
2024

REACT Core Facility "For the General User" Series

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Catalysis and Surface Science (CCSS)

Join members of the Reactor Engineering and Catalyst Testing (REACT) Core Facility for an event series "For the General User." Title:...

Mar
17
2024

Reuse-a-Palooza 2024

11:00 AM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Trienens Institute

Join The Plant at its annual Reuse-a-Palooza event south of downtown! "It’s cold out there but we’re already looking toward the...

Mar
7
2024

CMQT Monthly Meeting

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction (CMQT)

The CMQT monthly meetings host speakers, as well as provide tutorials,  research updates and facilitate team collaboration.  For more information...