Northwestern IT: Media & Technology Innovation

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10/04/2019

2019 Leopold Lecture with Rep. Adam Schiff

Addressing a full audience last night in Cahn Auditorium, California Rep. Adam Schiff, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, delivered this year's annual Leopold Lecture. He addressed modern concerns such as emerging deepfake technology, the position of the United States as a bastion of free

09/26/2019

Class of 2023 and Transfers Aerial Photo

Welcome Class of 2023 and Transfer Students! Last Friday we were delighted to join about 2000 wildcats to create this year’s class photo with a DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone! Here are some of the behind the scenes photos. Go ‘Cats!

08/01/2019

Robotics Filming in Tech

Last week, we filmed in the new Robotics and Biosystems Center space in the new AB Fill in Tech, interviewing faculty and filming robots for a video that will announce the center led by Professor Kevin Lynch that will open this fall. One of the areas of robotics we found fascinating were the robot s

06/27/2019

Media & Technology Innovation at Commencement 2019

Northwestern hosted its 161st annual Commencement this past weekend. Working with the Commencement Office and TC Furlong, Northwestern IT provided a live stream of this year's ceremony as well as the WCAS, Kellogg, and McCormick Convocations for our global community to view. This year's commencem

05/28/2019

05/28/2019

Promotional Videos for Two Northwestern Centers

The video production team has had a very busy spring. It began with our own version of March Madness - creating promotional videos for two Northwester centers, the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute and the new Center for Physical Genomics and Engineering. The Chemistry of Life Processes Institut

05/24/2019

TEACHx'19 - Ruha Benjamin, SingerSavvyApp, and Arabic Manuscripts

The Academic Software Development team presented two digital poster sessions at the TEACHx'19 conference this week. TEACHx is presented by Northwestern Information Technology, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost and the Searle Center for Advancing Learning & Teaching. Ruha Benjami

04/03/2019

Midwest Drupal Camp Chicago 2019

Last month, the Northwestern IT S&S Academic Software Development team – Paul Eisen, Jorge Lopez, and Gerard Panganiban – attended the Midwest Drupal Camp, held at DePaul University's Lincoln Park campus. The event was an excellent opportunity for us to discover new tools, learn from renowned de

01/15/2019

Launching of Issue #155 of TriQuarterly

Our first launch of 2019! The Academic Software Development team launched the latest issue of the TriQuarterly Magazine, issue #115. Our new team member, Gerard Panganiban, was brought up to speed on the deployment process, with guidance from Harlan Wallach and Rodolfo Vieira. TriQuarterly is a l

01/14/2019

Filming with Vadim Backman

Last week, we had a great kickoff to the new year as we began production for one of our first projects in 2019 - a video to announce the new Center for Physical Genomics and Engineering. We filmed an interview with Vadim Backman, the Walter Dill Scott Professor of Biomedical Engineering, about the p

11/30/2018

Why Are Some Genes Researched Less Than Others?

In a new paper published this fall by PLOS Biology, Northwestern researchers looked into why only 25% of human genes have been thoroughly researched since the entire genome was mapped in 2001. Here's the video we made about their research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjVoBXp7YxQ For more i

11/05/2018

Global Poverty Research Lab at the Buffett Institute

The Global Poverty Research Lab was launched last year to support graduate student and faculty research in development economics. Our team worked with Chris Udry from The Department of Economics to create an informational video about the Lab.

10/30/2018

Margaret Atwood at Northwestern

Northwestern hosted author Margaret Atwood for this year's One Book One Northwestern keynote event. She sat down with Helen Thompson to discuss The Handmaid's Tale in Pick-Staiger Auditorium, and our team supported the event with an overflow stream to the Block Museum of Art. Addressing a packed au

10/25/2018

Polarization in Politics

As part of a series we produced to highlight faculty and research in the Department of Economics, we created this short animation with Professor Jeff Ely about how committees can become polarized, despite everyone's best efforts.

10/23/2018

Google Summit Chicago 2018

Hosted at Navy Pier, the Google Cloud Summit offered a great opportunity to catch up, connect, and learn about the new cloud services offered by Google Cloud Platform. The Academic Software Development team (Rodolfo Vieira and Alex Miner) attended the event. In his "Founder's Letter" from 201

10/04/2018

Engineering, Coding and Musical Instruments

Digital music is not a subject you would typically learn about in an engineering class. However, McCormick School of Engineering Professor Bryan Pardo has integrated coding, music performance, design thinking and instrumentation into a class he taught last Spring. We were asked by the Digital Learni

09/17/2018

Do Personality Types Actually Exist?

Two months ago, we were approached by Northwestern researchers Luis Amaral, William Revelle and Martin Gerlach to create a video about their study on human personality. The team used new techniques to interpret data from 1.5 million individual online personality surveys. What did they uncover? Four

09/05/2018

The Online Master of Science in Law Officially Launches!

The Pritzker School of Law officially began its fully online Master of Science in Law Course on August 27th. Northwestern IT is working with over a dozen faculty members to create video content for this academic year. After a brief orientation, students' first classes are with Dan Rodriguez on Legal

08/09/2018

Do Energy Efficiency Projects Work?

We've been working with Data Science Initiatives to create an ongoing series that highlights research at Northwestern. In the most recent video, Professor Mar Reguant explains her project that uses machine learning to investigate whether energy efficiency interventions work as well as we predict. Wa

07/26/2018

Filming at the Technology Support Center

This week the Media & Design Video Production team collaborated with Technology Support Services to make a film about the people and places behind 1-HELP. We worked with a cheerful group of enthusiastic Student Support Specialists who wrote and starred in the film. It was all hands on deck for o

07/17/2018

Farewell to Riham!

For the past three weeks, our Media & Design team has been privileged to host one of six Palestinian undergraduate students brought to Northwestern by an education grant through the Searle Center. Riham Khrub studies computer science in the city of Nablus on the West Bank. With career aspiration

06/29/2018

TEDx Northwestern U Videos Launch

We are excited to announce the launch of Northwestern's 2018 TEDx videos. Working alongside the team at TEDx Northwestern U, we put together eight videos for the TEDx platform. This year's theme, Against the Grain, highlighted individuals who have challenged the norm - and have something to say abou

06/25/2018

In Rain or Shine - Our Media & Design Team Supports Commencement 2018

All week, the forecast had predicted rain for Northwestern's Commencement 2018. True to Chicago weather, we all work up (early) Friday morning to downpours at Ryan Field. Lucky for us and everyone who watched around the world, we have a truck on-location from which we can livestream the entire event

05/02/2018

Web Development Team Releases Early Build

Earlier this week, the software development team paid a visit to the Bienen School of Music to share an early alpha build of our upcoming project, currently named Voice Tracker. Voice Tracker is a tool to help vocalists log their vocal expenditures and keep track of how the quality of their voic

04/18/2018

Hello From Smashing Conference

For the past three days, I’ve been out in chilly San Francisco attending Smashing Conference 2018 - a design conference covering a wide array of topics all related to front-end development and elegant interface design. The conference schedule has been absolutely jam-packed and I’ve been enjoying...

04/17/2018

Modern Robotics Specialization on Coursera

This past Monday marked the launch of a new Specialization on Coursera, taught by Professor Kevin Lynch - Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control. Professor Lynch covers fundamental mathematical modeling techniques that students will be able to apply to any future work in robotics. Whether

03/23/2018

The Master of Science in Law Program at Northwestern Law

The Pritzker School of Law will be launching its Master of Science in Law Online Program this coming fall. Designed for STEM professionals, this program focuses on applicable legal and business knowledge. Our Media Production team has been collaborating with faculty & staff to create a program f

03/16/2018

Experience Acquia Chicago

The Media and Design software development team recently attended Experience Acquia Chicago. The half-day summit showcased a long list of customer success stories including Acquia, AMD, SAB Miller, Purina, Tesla, and Xerox. During Experience Acquia detailed how companies are using the newly launch A

03/15/2018

Congratulations Northwestern Dance Marathon!

Congratulations to the dancers, the NUDM committees and the co-chairs, and to all the donors that made this year’s event another wonderful example of our Northwestern community giving back. We were proud here in Northwestern IT to help, in our own way, by providing the live streaming and support t...

03/11/2018

Northwestern Dance Marathon 2018

The Northwestern IT Media & Design team is excited to be supporting Northwestern University's annual Dance Marathon - partnering this year with Cradles to Crayons and the Evanston Community Foundation. The 2018 live stream has helped connect 1700+ viewers from over 36 countries to this incredibl

03/10/2018

Dance Marathon 2018 Kickoff

Our behind-the-scenes crew, kicking off Northwestern University Dance Marathon 2018. The live broadcast can be found here. See you in 30 hours!

03/09/2018

New Voice Tracker app - Early Adopters Session at Bienen

I was especially pleased to return to Bienen School of Music today (I'm an alumnus, DMA'14) with my team from IT S&S Media and Design Nick Gertonson, Len Brashear, and Heather Haseley (IT S&S Teaching and Learning Technologies). We presented the new Voice Tracker app interactive mockups to e

03/06/2018

IT S&S provides training session for the MSiA student cohort

The IT Services & Support, Media & Design and Academic Software Development teams, partnered with the MSiA program (Master of Science in Analytics at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern) to offer guidance and training to the MSiA student cohort on Amazon Web Services, Python

02/28/2018

A Fresh Look for the Data Science Initiative Website

The Data Science Initiative (DSI) at Northwestern has just launched a brand new website today with the help of the IT S&S Media & Design Web Team! The updated DSI site now includes the official branding components from Global Marketing & Communications and rich media content scattered th

02/05/2018

A Tour Of The Segal Design Institute

The Media and Design software development team is currently working with the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern to design and develop an online platform for creating and deploying safety training courses across multiple universities. These safety courses will introduce students to the variety

10/16/2017

When Stars Collide: A Neutron Star Death Spiral