Caravans of Gold Glimpse a World Where Islam, Christianity and African Cultures Met at the Crossroads of the Saharan Trade Routes — at the Block Museum
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Four New Personality Types p. 13 … Boom Chicago at 25 p. 17 … “ What’s the next big thing in AI? Wildcat Style — No Filter p. 34 … Uzoamaka Nzelibe and Asylum Adding humanness on top of deep Seekers p. 38 … Soccer Star Matt Eliason’s Messi & Me Moment p. 47 learning.” p. 12 SPRING 2019 Caravans of Gold Glimpse a world where Islam, Christianity and African cultures met at the crossroads of the Saharan trade routes — at the Block Museum. p. 26 MOMENT Great Spirit In November members of the Chicago-area Native American community and representatives of Sand Creek Massacre descendants gathered on campus to share reflections at a bonfire and a panel discussion. U.S. Army cavalry soldiers slaughtered approximately 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho Native Americans on Nov. 29, 1864, at Sand Creek in Colorado. University founder John Evans was the governor and superintendent of Indian Affairs of the Colorado Territory at the time. Northwestern has made Native American research a priority in recent years. PHOTO: ADAM SINGS IN THE TIMBER SPRING 2019 NORTHWESTERN MOMENT Jump for Joy Anthony Gaines celebrates an emphatic dunk during the Wildcats’ exhibition opener in the debut of the new Welsh- Ryan Arena. The Northwestern facility received $110 million in upgrades. Additions include new seating with chair-backs, new and expanded restrooms, concession areas with twice as many point-of-sale stations and new locker rooms for men’s and women’s basketball and women’s volleyball. PHOTO: S.J. CARRERA INC. 2018/COURTESY OF NORTHWESTERN ATHLETICS SPRING 2019 NORTHWESTERN 4 5 SPRING 2019 Contents Vol. 21 Issue 2 FRONT 1 Moment 48Fog Artist 6 From the Editor 38 Fujiko Nakaya 7 Talk Back Hope for Asylum Seekers presents her Law professor Uzoamaka ethereal, shape- VOICES Emeka Nzelibe represents shifting installations 9 Brian Mustanski young immigrants seeking a to connect humans Health equity is next safe haven in the U.S. to nature. LGBTQ priority By Barbara Mahany 11 Faisal Mohyuddin On becoming a teacher — and a poet 14 How I Spent My Summer NEWS Grants funded a variety of 17 Student Life student research projects, Cocoloupe climbers hit the wall from lemurs in Madagascar 18 Discovery Sleep to marionettes in Canada. helps improve memory 21 Innovation 26 Alligator Tail provides Caravans of Gold training wheels for wheelchairs A new exhibition at the Block Museum of Art assembles art and fragments to reveal “WE WILL” UPDATE the forgotten glory of Africa’s 24 Ryan Family Chair Challenge medieval past. Spurring the By Stephanie Kulke creation of endowed professorships FEATURES 34 Wildcat Style — No FiIlter Insta photos and fashion stories from stylish students ALUMNI 22 46 Creation Belden CEO John Stroup helps break cycle of ← “This renovation gives substance abuse 50 Class Notes us a top fan-friendly and 68 Deaths athlete-enabling game BACK STORY venue. The new Welsh-Ryan 72 Gail Becker Corporate will have the ambiance to exec cooks up create a distinct home- Caulipower 13 49 court advantage.” What’s Your Type? Building an eBay for Scientific Research —Trustee Patrick G. Ryan ’59, ’09 H, Northwestern researchers Alumnus Garry Cooper launched Rheaply, which is part at the dedication of the new Welsh-Ryan Arena outline four personality types asset management system, part online marketplace and part RING: RING EXCAVATED AT SIJILMASA, MOROCCO, 9TH–10TH 9TH–10TH MOROCCO, SIJILMASA, AT RING: RING EXCAVATED DU ROYAUME MUSÉES DES NATIONALE FONDATION GOLD, CENTURY. EL HASSANI ABDALLAH FILI AND HAFSA BY PHOTO DU MAROC, TAMARA ILLUSTRATION: FACE MELISSA OSTROW; NAKAYA: PREDKO LISA BEAKERS: SHOPSIN; based on new data. collaboration platform for the applied sciences community. NORTHWESTERN SPRING 2019 On the Cover: Photograph by Alex Treadway/National Geographic SPRING 2019 NORTHWESTERN 6 FROM THE EDITOR TALK BACK 7 Northwestern clients have been able to leave I love the redesign of “No matter Magazine A Lawyer Makes behind horrific lives and move Northwestern Magazine. In EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD forward. Many have graduated Talk Back fact, when it arrived, I thought what tribe or Krishnan Anantharaman from college or learned a trade, it was the Atlantic, one of my ’91, chair; David Beard ’81; All the Difference filter bubble Emily Chow ’12; Alex Garcia and most are now productive, favorite magazines. ’89; Adrienne Samuels Gibbs contributing members in their short attention spans. I am Elizabeth Canning Blackwell ’90 we belong to, ’99; Ryan Haggerty ’07, communities.” ashamed to have it represent Glenview, Ill. ’16 MS; Jerry Lai ’04; Robert we need to Leighton ’82; Mike McGee n this issue you’ll find must confirm information Just like my son. After our intelligent Northwestern ’10; Monica Metzler ’86; I an inspiring story with clients’ relatives back gaining asylum he went to community. We deserve better. “The old layout was text treasure the Cate Plys ’84; Gita Pullapilly [“A Beacon of Hope home and secondary sources, college, earned a degree in Margaret Weatherly Hall ’63 heavy, and there wasn’t a lot ’00 MS; Christina Rosales for Asylum Seekers, page 38] especially regarding the business and now works for Prairie Village, Kan. of white space … .” [“The Story work that all ’11; Joshua Rosenblat ’17; Kerem Taskin ’14; Kevin Sites about clinical associate law violent situations these youths Nestlé. He’s enrolled his sister Behind Our New Look,” From journalists ’89 MS; Katherine Unmuth professor Uzoamaka Nzelibe, faced in their country. at a university in Guatemala, the Editor, fall 2018, page 8]. ’03; William Weinbaum ’82; who helps youth seeking As the mother of an where she lives, and provides This from one of the premier provide. Their ’83 MS; Steph Yiu ’08; Cat SOCIAL MEDIA asylum build new lives. adopted Guatemalan teenager for his extended family. universities in the nation? Is Zakrzewski ’15; Sheldon FEEDBACK work keeps us Zenner ’74, ’78 JD As a staff attorney with the who fled kidnapping threats in “I wish more people could this what you promise your informed and VICE PRESIDENT, OFFICE OF Bluhm Legal Clinic’s Children his home country and who lost begin to understand that what students — not too much text GLOBAL MARKETING AND and Family Justice Center at his parents to gang violence, I makes the United States great I wrote about Cecilia Vaisman to bother reading but lots of COMMUNICATIONS connected.” the Northwestern Pritzker am grateful to Uzoamaka and are our founding ideals and NEW DESIGN for @Northwesternmag. In her photos and white space? You Jeri Ward ’01 MEM, MBA last years of life, she essentially — Arlis McLean School of Law, Nzelibe ’96 all the immigration attorneys values and the opportunities want my donations for this EXECUTIVE EDITOR gave me my career. She was an Stephanie Russell takes on the asylum cases like her who are fighting for these values engender,” Kudos to all of you! Change exceptional mentor, and I find vision? SENIOR EDITOR of teens and young adults these young asylum seekers. Nzelibe said to me after I is good. I LOVE Northwestern myself wishing on a weekly Bob Basofin ’68 MS the need to protect our free Sean Hargadon who’ve fled their homelands Through their unwavering told her my son’s asylum Magazine’s design makeover. basis that I could ask her for Palatine, Ill. press. No matter what tribe or ART DIRECTOR because of violence and commitment to and story. “While it is not a perfect So sleek and easy to read. advice. — @antoniacere filter bubble we belong to, we Christina Senese threats on their lives, often compassion for these young country, the U.S. remains one Vivid pictures and excellent need to treasure the work that “If we had comparable screens ASSISTANT ALUMNI NEWS EDITOR from gangs. adults, they are saving — and of the few places where people articles. I’m on vacation now THREATS AGAINST all journalists provide. Their Leah Goldberger for other types of #cancer, we “These youths cannot transforming — lives. can start afresh and make and just finished reading the could reduce cancer deaths A FREE PRESS work keeps us informed and PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR afford lawyers and, under our “My clients are in search better lives for themselves.” magazine cover to cover. It tenfold,” says Vadim Backman, connected. Anne Egger laws, are not entitled to a free of safety when they come makes me proud to say, “I’m PhD, about a stunning new The new Northwestern Arlis McLean CONTRIBUTING ALUMNI AND lawyer. Yet having a lawyer to the United States,” says an NU alum.” #earlydetection strategy. Magazine is outstanding. From Tucson CAMPAIGN NEWS EDITORS “When else have we seen such Lindsay Beller makes all the difference in Nzelibe. “I’ve learned over the Renee Pearl Sigler ’85 a discovery? Never.” oak trees to Grammy Award Deborah Cassell ’00 MS court,” says Nzelibe, who years that when children feel Montreal — @LurieCancer winners to groundbreaking I live in a modest-sized EDITORIAL INTERNS represents these young people safe and supported, they can Stephanie Russell scientific collaborations, the city. There is only one Daniel Fernandez ’19, Valerie Fong ’22, Christopher Grismer in the U.S. Department of accomplish many things. My Executive Editor At 80 I am resigned to the magazine continues to amaze newspaper; once there ’19, Danny Hwang ’19, ’19 MS, Justice’s Chicago Immigration scattering of my ashes. I am me with the accomplishments were two or more. For every Sophia Lo ’22, Jacob Munoz Court. not resigned to having my of Northwestern faculty and column-inch of actual news, ’21, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff ’21 “What I love most about memory placed in a jumble graduates. The new format the section is filled out with © 2019 Northwestern University. my clients is they’re kids.