In the News    

6/8/2009 - NU Solar-car Team placed 3rd in 2009 FormulaSun Rayce. American Solar Challenge

6/4/2009 - Editor and Publisher -- Medill, McCormick Student Innovations Support Future of News. June 4, 2009. Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism is developing technology applications that it hopes will help shore up the news industry. As traditional mass media business models decline, the project aims to apply technology in ways that generate new revenues or reduce journalism's production and distribution costs while maintaining its standards. More

5/27/2009 - Chicago Sun-Times, May 25, 2009 - Northwestern looks for future of news. Kris Hammond developed a new course offered by the Medill School of Journalism that brings together graduate journalism students with undergraduate computer programmers [link]

5/8/2009 - April 15 - Crowdsourcing
Hammond on WTTW's Chicago Tonight. There is a brand new way of doing business thanks to the World Wide Web. Kris Hammond of Northwestern University introduces us to the popular phenomenon known as "crowdsourcing," and tells us how it works. View clip.

5/8/2009 - Jona's iLab Network project featured in current issue of Centerpiece. Kemi Jona, research associate professor and director of the Office of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education Partnerships (OSEP) is featured in the Office of Research Centerpiece magazine. The article, "iLabs: Bringing High School Science Back to the Future" explores the growing gap between the practice of science that's happening by researchers at Northwestern and other institutions, and what science looks like in high school.

5/5/2009 - Palacios 1.1 and Kitten 1.1.0 Released. The V3VEE Project at Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico, and the Scalable System Software Department at Sandia National Laboratories are pleased to announce the joint release of Palacios 1.1 and Kitten 1.1.0, two new open source operating systems. The Northwestern component consists of Professors Peter Dinda, Fabian Bustamante and Russ Joseph; graduate students Jack Lange, Lei Xia and Chang Bae; undergraduates Steven Jaconette, Mat Wojcik and Peter Kamm, and visiting scholar Yuan Tang.

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Activities & Accolades    

Grayson invited to review quasiparticles. Matthew Grayson was invited by "Physics" magazine to write a Viewpoint review article entitled "Quasiparticle Doppelgangers"

Fortnow elected SIGACT Chair. Lance Fortnow has been elected Chair of SIGACT for a term beginning July 1, 1009 and ending in three years, June 30, 2012.

Kuzmanovic invited to speak at Microsoft Research. Aleksandar Kuzmanovic gave an invited talk at Microsoft Research, Redmond.

Razeghi and CQD team publish results in Applied Physics Letters. Recent results from the Center for Quantum Devices have been published and are available on the web site.

Findler is awarded CAREER award. Robby Findler's project "Lightweight, Blame-aware Contract Checking" has been awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER grant.

Brian Leung among ten students chosen to take part in Initiative for Sustainability and Energy. EECS student Brian Leung from Prof. Seda Ogrenci Memik's lab was among the 10 students chosen as the first class of the Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern’s cluster fellows program.

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Events & Seminars

International Graduate Student Orientation — September 8

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Openings in eecs

Two postdoctoral positions in the area of optoelectronics at Bio-inspired Sensors and Optoelectronics Laboratory