Events
Past Event
NUvention: Web + Media Final Pitch Event
Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2:00 PM
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MFC Forum, McCormick Foundation Center
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After a quarter of hard work and dedication, the teams of NUvention: Web + Media will pitch their businesses to a group of advisory board members, faculty, and guests. Over the course of the quarter, the teams have defined their concept through market research, customer development, and prototyping. Their final presentations are a culmination of their efforts over the quarter, stimulating the real-world experience of pitching a company to potential investors. This provides a starting point for students that wish to launch their companies post-class.
Time
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
MFC Forum, McCormick Foundation Center Map
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Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Annual Segal Iron Pour
Segal Design Institute
7:30 PM
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Evanston Township High School
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The Segal Iron Pour is an annual event that introduces students to a centuries-old manufacturing process. During the Iron Pour, students pour molten iron from a 2,700-degree furnace into 3D-printed and sand-casted molds.
The event is held as a culmination of DSGN 395-64: Leonardo, Geometry, and the Art of Manufacturing, a course taught by Segal faculty members Matthew Cummins and David Gatchell.
Join us for the 6th annual Segal Iron Pour, a one-of-a-kind experience that aims to stimulate curiosity in sand casting, forging, and other types of manufacturing. The Iron Pour features Segal students, faculty, and staff who will demonstrate the forging process by pouring hundreds of pounds of molten iron into creatively designed molds. The Segal Iron Pour is open to the McCormick community, including students, faculty, and staff.
Time
Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Location
Evanston Township High School
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Segal Design Institute
Corporate Innovation Guest Speaker Series: Swatee Surve
Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
4:00 PM
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ITW, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
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As part of our Corporate Innovation class, we will be having five guest speakers, who have all made waves as innovators in an established corporate setting. Because of the invaluable insight and guidance they can provide, we are opening these events to all of our students, even those not enrolled in ENTREP 395: Corporate Innovation.
Swatee Surve is the founder and CEO of Litesprite, an award-winning digital healthcare firm that has built a therapeutic gaming platform that delivers data insights and improves clinical outcomes. Before founding Litesprite, she was the senior innovation strategist and senior product manager of healthcare at T-Mobile, where she led product development and launch efforts for new Android and iOS services in mobile health and communications products.
Time
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
ITW, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center Map
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Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Extending Care: A Conversation about Conservation and Futurity
Block Museum of Art
6:00 PM
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Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh
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The Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts is a collaboration between the Art Institute of Chicago and materials science-related departments at Northwestern University to pursue objects-based and objects-inspired scientific research. Materials research benefits ongoing work in conservation, archaeology, art history, and curatorial scholarship.
Learn how the Center uses materials research to care for art objects in sustainable, innovative ways with Maria Kokkori, Senior Scientist in the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts. She will be in conversation with Corey Byrnes, Northwestern Associate Professor of Chinese Culture and co-founder/co-director of the Environmental Humanities Workshop in Kaplan Humanities Center.
This event is presented by the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science in conjunction with exhibition Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology.
Time
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh Map
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Block Museum of Art
Visions of Tomorrow: Building Responsible AI
The Garage
5:15 PM
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The Garage, North Campus Parking Garage/Academic Building
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Join us at The Garage to hear from Arjun Ravi Kannan, Director of Data Science Research at Discover, who will provide insight on the near future and the ideas pushing it forward.
Time
Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
The Garage, North Campus Parking Garage/Academic Building Map
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The Garage
Corporate Innovation Guest Speaker Series: Nick Renold
Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
4:00 PM
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ITW, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
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As part of our Corporate Innovation class, we will be having five guest speakers, who have all made waves as innovators in an established corporate setting. Because of the invaluable insight and guidance they can provide, we are opening these events to all of our students, even those not enrolled in ENTREP 395: Corporate Innovation.
Nick Renold was the seventh employee of Titan Aerospace, a startup that designed and built solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles. He eventually took over as COO, and in 2014, Google purchased Titan Aerospace. He now works on Project Wing, Google’s drone delivery initiative.
Time
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
ITW, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center Map
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Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
VentureCat 2024 Public Showcase
The Garage
6:00 PM
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White Auditorium, Kellogg Global Hub
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VentureCat is Northwestern’s annual student startup competition and celebrates the University’s most promising student founders.
The program culminates in a pitch competition in which a prize pool of non-dilutive prize money is distributed to student ventures.
Join us on Wednesday, May 22 at 6 PM CT for the Public Showcase where we will feature the six finalist teams and their pitches. You will get the chance to vote to award our audience favorite prize and we will announce our finals prize winners–including the grand prize of $100,000. This year, we're welcoming past grand-prize winners, Ben Preston '21 and Charlotte Oxnam '23, back to the VentureCat stage as the event MC's!
Our 25 semifinalist teams span five tracks - Business Products & Services; Consumer Products & Services; Energy & Sustainability; Life Sciences & Medical Innovation; and Social Impact. Learn more about the selected startups in our announcement here.
This event is free and open to the public to attend. We're excited to offer a hybrid event, with an in-person showcase on Northwestern's Evanston campus and a livestream.
Time
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
White Auditorium, Kellogg Global Hub Map
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The Garage
Visions of Tomorrow: Navigating AI's Uncharted Territory
The Garage
5:15 PM
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The Garage, North Campus Parking Garage/Academic Building
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Join us at The Garage to hear from Alex Castrounis, Founder & CEO at Why of AI, who will provide insight on the near future and the ideas pushing it forward.
Castrounis is the founder and CEO of Why of AI, a book author on AI, and an adjunct professor of AI for Northwestern University's Kellogg & McCormick MBAi program. He has over two decades of experience advising startups to Fortune 100 companies on using data, analytics, and AI models to drive business growth and customer success.
Time
Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
The Garage, North Campus Parking Garage/Academic Building Map
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The Garage
Northwestern Engineering PhD Hooding and Master's Degree Recognition Ceremony
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
9:00 AM
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Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony
Time
Monday, June 10, 2024 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location
Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Northwestern Engineering Undergraduate Convocation
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
2:00 PM
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Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering Undergraduate Convocation
Time
Monday, June 10, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location
Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Undergraduate Quantum Summer School
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
All Day
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Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
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Innovation in Quantum Pedagogy, Application, and its Relation to Culture (IQ-PARC), funded by the Department of Defense — National Defense Education Program, is extending an invitation to underrepresented students nationwide (including military-connected students) to participate in a summer school focused on quantum technologies, to be held at Northwestern University. Join us for presentations by faculty and industry partners introducing quantum technologies, cutting-edge research areas, and related job opportunities particularly in the areas of national security.
This effort aims to foster an inclusive environment that encourages participation from all corners of the academic community. Successful applicants will receive up to $1,000 USD to cover travel and lodging expenses in Evanston, IL.
Priority application deadline: May 15, 2024.
Decisions will be sent by June 15, 2024.
Time
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Location
Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center Map
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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science