Northwestern IT: Media & Technology Innovation

01/22/2021

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