91Porn closed out the month of October with an awards-filled bang. Check out the week in honors, media coverage and more.
Around the Commons
NASPA service award
Congratulations to Vice President for Student Affairs Frank E. Ross, who will receive the 2014 for Region IV-East. The award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding achievement to the student affairs profession and Region IV-East.
Distinguished teacher
Communication, Media and Theatre professor Cynthia Moran has won the 2014 . The award is given annually to a tenured member of the University faculty who best demonstrates distinguished teaching.
A historical difference
Northeastern alumnus and former member of the University Board of Trustees Dan Goodwin was presented with the first by the DuPage Historical Museum on Wednesday, Oct. 29. In honoring Goodwin, chairman and CEO of The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, the museum cited his company’s contributions to the DuPage County economy as well as his charitable giving and volunteer efforts.
Flamenco on film
“Over the Waves: A Story of Flamenco in the U.S.,” a movie that features Northeastern’s resident Ensemble Español, has been selected into the educational market by , a film distribution company that promotes and maintains the legacy of Spanish and Latin America through international cultural initiatives. The film, which highlights the life of Jose Greco, Carmela Greco, Dame Libby Komaiko and Ensemble Español, was presented at Chicago's Latino Film Festival in 2013.
And there’s more!
- Victor Montañez of the Center for College Access and Success appears in a new documentary series titled that premiered Oct. 28.
- Emma Battaglia has been nominated as the Northeastern 2014 .
- Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics assistant professor Jennifer Banas published in the in collaboration with David Victorson of Northwestern University.
- Economics associate professor Christina Ciecierski has been awarded a teaching grant from the for 2014-15.
- Mike Martindale, a supervisor of mathematics tutoring in the Learning Support Center, presented a seminar on “How Studying Mathematics is Different” on Oct. 24 at the conference.
- Rich Rutschman of the Center for College Access and Success was the lead presenter at the fifth Polish Society of Incentive Therapy conference Oct. 13-14 in Warsaw, Poland.
- Associate Dean of Libraries Dave Green will present Nov. 1 at the in Elmhurst.
- Psychology professor Masami Takahashi and recent graduate Cathy Samatas will present their research at the annual conference.
- The inaugural issue of , an online literary journal co-edited by English instructor Olivia Cronk, has gone live. This issue features work by November Visiting Writers Series writer .
In the media
COVER WORTHY
As we told you two weeks ago, Biology assistant professor Aaron Schirmer and instructor Frederick Prete were part of a team whose research on praying mantises was published in the . Now we can reveal: Their research made the cover! (A special nod goes to Northeastern photographer Joe Davis, who took the cover image.)
And on the radio
Graduate music student Konrad Pawelek, who recently won an outside scholarship, was interviewed in Polish by the and Radio Deon Chicago after he performed on clarinet for the scholarship committee.
Also in the media ...
- Former Northeastern assistant professor Parv Sethi was featured by for creating a series of virtual, geology-based tours in 15 national parks.
- Northeastern alum Bishop Mar Gewargis Younan was mentioned in the for participating in U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk’s Human Rights Caucus Field Hearing to discuss ISIS’s threats in the Middle East.
To do
Modern Mandolin Quartet
Northeastern will host the Modern Mandolin Quartet on Nov. 21 as part of the . The quartet is a chamber group using instruments exclusively from the mandolin family (two mandolins, a mandola and a mando-cello). The group will perform arrangements of music from the classical and contemporary canons.
Coming soon
Don’t forget: will present “Rotas,” a theater and dance production that examines issues related to domestic violence, next month. Performances will take place in the Auditorium on Nov. 8 and Nov. 9. A question-and-answer session will be presented following each performance.
Mark your calendar!
- (free), 7:30 p.m. Oct. 31, Recital Hall
- (free), noon Nov. 1, Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies, Donn F. Bailey Legacy Hall
- Discussion with Crystal Laura, author of “Being Bad: My Baby Brother and the School-to-Prison Pipeline” (free), 2:25 p.m. Nov. 3, Golden Eagles
- (free), 3:05 p.m. Nov. 4, Recital Hall
- (free), 11 a.m. Nov. 4, Student Union 003
- (free), 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4, Recital Hall
- Interfaith Dialogue Fire Circle (free), 6 p.m. Nov. 5, behind the PE building at the fire pit
- (free), noon Nov. 5, Pedroso Center
- (free), 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6, Auditorium
- (free), 1:40 p.m. Nov. 6, FA202
- (free), 5 p.m. Nov. 6, Student Union 003
- (free), 9:30 a.m. Nov. 7, FA202
- (free), 8 a.m. Nov. 8, Commons
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