A New Horizon Gigi Lucas Is on a Mission to Change Surfing Culture
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Building a Tiny Break-Dancing Robot p. 11 … From Boycotts to Protest “Native science can help provide a to Progress p. 24 … Causes and Consequences of Dirty Air p. 38 … holistic path toward a sustainable Celebrating Tap Dance p. 44 … Data Journalism Goes Global p. 60 planet.” p. 7 SPRING 2021 A New Horizon GiGi Lucas is on a mission to change surfing culture. p. 32 MOMENT Fragile Figurines In January the Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts presented a re-imagining of Tennessee Williams’ 1937 play The Glass Menagerie, told through the lens of a Chinese American family in St. Louis. Alvin Chan, a student in the Master of Fine Arts in Directing program, directed the production, which was originally created for the stage but was adapted into an audio drama because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The recorded production featured images of the set and costumes that were designed and constructed by MFA design students. TKTKTK 2018 NORTHWESTERN PHOTO: JUSTIN BARBIN ’11 2 3 3 SPRING 2021 Vol. 23 Issue 3 Contents Contents 44Split Focus Neuroscience grad FRONT Sterling Harris ’18 1 Moment 11 00 encounters history 4 Talk Back Building an Aquatic Robot Headline Teekay Here through tap. A tiny device could be the Que con cum as dus eictota VOICES future of medicine and sinting. Enti dolup tiores environmental cleanup. dolor tatibus in maore vits 7 Josiah Hester Building on nosam officta qturepro Indigenous knowledge milium que con cum asus. 9 Chris Oh Called to 38 Que con cum as dus eictota heal and teach Airpocalypse Now sinting. Enti dolup tiores 10 The Book Nook Dangerously polluted air isn’t dolor tatibus in maore vits Recent titles from just a problem in places like nosam officta qturepro Northwestern faculty Beijing and Mexico City. It’s milium que con cum asus. a problem in Chicago, across sinting. 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Enti dolup tiores arts management Northwestern faculty discuss dolor tatibus in maore vits experience social movements and how nosam officta qturepro they work — or don’t. milium que con cum asus. “WE WILL” UPDATE By Clare Milliken By Name Teekay 20 Enhancing CS+X Philanthropists revolutionize computer science 23 The Next Virus New gifts to help prevent another pandemic ALUMNI 48 Class Notes 54 Josephine Lee Chicago Children’s Choir president gets a 32 Grammy nomination 60 Evan Hill New York Times open-source journalist on Pulitzer- ← “I took a surf lesson, winning team 63 Katie Krall Cincinnati and the minute I stepped Reds operations analyst looks to on the board, I thought, change the game 68 In Memoriam ‘This is it. This is what I’ve 72 The Other Cover She sang, she danced, been missing.’ I knew it she was Frau Blücher 46 13 instinctively.” Wildcat Cocktails Addressing Global Challenges — GiGi Lucas ’01, founder and executive director of Make your own with help Doctoral candidate Roberto Rosado-Ramirez is investigating SurfearNEGRA, a nonprofit whose mission is to bring from Twisted Alchemy’s the regeneration of settlements in northern Yucatán, Mexico, cultural and gender diversity to surfing KEELER STEFANIE GIGI LUCAS: HARRIS: THALIA RAMIREZ STERLING Kim Oster-Holstein ’90 MS. as one of Northwestern’s Global Impacts Graduate Fellows. NORTHWESTERN SPRING 2021 Cover: Photograph by Stefanie Keeler SPRING 2021 NORTHWESTERN 4 TALK BACK TALK BACK 5 Northwestern THE RECKONING “It’s about invite people from across the UNDERSTANDING Magazine Northwestern community to INCIVILITY VICE PRESIDENT, OFFICE OF Talk Back Timely, relevant, readable time high share their perspectives. We GLOBAL MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS — the mag held my interest school and welcome opinions of all kinds. The current polarization Jeri Ward ’01 MEM, MBA from cover to The Other [“Understanding Incivility,” ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT, Cover. As an immigrant, college English Kudos to you for publishing Sound Off, Voices, winter CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER I was especially grabbed the recent article by Gerald 2021] has twin causes. Andy Madorsky ’86 MS and American by the Adrienne Samuels Gabrielse. You deserve the The ideologies of the right EDITOR IN CHIEF Sean Hargadon Gibbs article on teaching literature gratitude of many of us for and the left became more the full context of American continuing to represent extreme, enabled by filter ART DIRECTOR classes Christina Senese history [“The Reckoning Christian faith as a part of bubbles and the abolishing ASSISTANT ALUMNI Is Here,” winter 2021]. As I desegregated the diversity of Northwestern of the fairness doctrine. NEWS EDITOR was sorting out the events University. It was a strong, Often news sources — Lena Elmeligy ’18 their reading of the attempted putsch in timely and courageous social media, conventional DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE January, I kept thinking back Former President Trump’s article. sources, communities — PRODUCTION lists.” Martin Wilson ’10 MS on the unpleasant parts of “1776 Commission Report” — Patricia Endress John C. Wakefield ’91 MMus do not understand their PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR U.S. history, self-taught in my calls for a return to teaching Johnson City, Tenn. roles to be constrained by Anne Egger case, because they had been “patriotic education,” which facts and evidence. If you EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS omitted or skimmed over apparently has been written I applaud what Professor cannot agree on the facts, Mohamed Abdelfattah, Diana when I was a student. by patriotic Americans. But as and holding to your Christian Gabrielse wrote about the it is very difficult to resolve Babineau, Lindsay Beller, Deborah Cassell ’00 MS, George A. Baum ’55 you note, the report excludes worldview. universe of “truth” in conflicts. At the same time, Nancy Liskar, Roseann Mark, FREE TO PLAY Dr. Rogers who are committed Naples, Fla. most events that occurred Marie A. Limjoco ’06 MA 2020–21. I retired as a political leaders resort Clare Milliken, Jeff Strayer to using their brilliance to from 1619 to the present that Skokie, Ill. professor of physics in to oversimplification or DESIGN CONTRIBUTORS Awesome article about help our world! It’s also about time high provide context for those 2015 — the world was quite pandering to their supporters Sarina Benoit, Heather Kathryn Hahn [“Free to Play,” Elise Clerkin ’03 school and college English words. 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It is The same pursuit of truth BIG CITIES STILL MATTER chair; David Beard ’81; Emily went to Northwestern! My Rockford, Ill. It’s time that all students can be engaging enough to offensive to be involuntarily in both physics and in the Chow ’12; Alex Freund ’17, ’20 JD; Alex Garcia ’89; husband and I — both alums knew these men and women encourage more interest and unwillingly subjected pursuit of God is central to I believe that proptech will Adrienne Samuels Gibbs ’99; — adore her work and are and their contributions to in local history, which can to someone else’s religious understanding and doing ensure that big cities are Ryan Haggerty ’07, ’16 MS; huge fans. 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