Author Archives: Mike Curtis

Rahm Comes to Northwestern

By Mike Curtis on 28 Nov 2012 – 6:14 pm
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Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago, visited Northwestern University this evening to speak about his background story, which related to the One Book One Northwestern selection of Alex Kotlowitz’s book, Never a City So Real, in addition to the election and Chicago politics.  NUIT A&RT provided an overflow feed from the University Relation’s team who were [...]

WGN interviews Dr. Woodruff, iExperiment

By Mike Curtis on 8 May 2012 – 6:02 pm
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Dr. Teresa Woodruff, Chief, Division of Fertility Preservation at the Feinberg School of Medicine, was interviewed today by WGN News.  The story centers on the use of videoconferencing to facilitate new methods of collaborative research. A discussion and experiment between Dr. Woodruff in her office, Dr. Min Xu in the Oncofertility Labs in Chicago, and Dr. [...]

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons @ Northwestern

By Mike Curtis on 4 May 2012 – 5:04 pm
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A partnership with the Northwestern Center for Advanced Surgical Education (NCASE), the Feinberg School of Medicine Simulation Technology and Immersive Learning (STIL) program, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, John’s Hopkins University, University of California at San Francisco, Northwestern University IT A&RT and NU IT iCair, [...]

PK-8 Education Forum at NU

By Mike Curtis on 8 Dec 2011 – 6:40 pm
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December 4th was a full day of activity in the Tech Institute for over 600 registered gifted students and their parents who visited to participate in the free Educational Forum.  The co-sponsors of the event, Scholarly Research Associates and the Center for Talent Development (CTD) at Northwestern, teamed up to organize the speakers and presentation [...]

The next Green generation

By Mike Curtis on 29 Nov 2011 – 10:03 pm
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A community partnership between Science in Society at Northwestern University, Siemens and William F. Gurrie Middle School (GMS, LaGrange IL) is helping develop the next generation of leaders in energy sustainability. Acting as mentors, students at Northwestern, lead by Michael Kennedy, Director of Science in Society, collaborate with a group of students, the Gurrie Green [...]

Alumni Reunion Tailgate – Live!

By Mike Curtis on 22 Oct 2011 – 4:31 pm
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We’re working with the Paul Matijevic, Development and Alumni Relations, and One Smooth Stone (headed up by Mark Ledogar, class of ’89) to broadcast, for the first time, the Alumni Reunion Tailgate at Rocky Miller Park.  In all, there are 14 of us behind the scenes making this happen. The emcee for the event is [...]

Promoting Northwestern’s Video Collaboration Efforts to Other Universities

By Mike Curtis on 20 Oct 2011 – 10:46 am
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Recently, at the CIC TechForum 2011 conference that took place Oct 11th and 12th at the University of Illinois, a group from Northwestern presented on the current state of Videoconferencing at Northwestern. The CIC is the Committee on Institutional Cooperation which consists of the Big10 schools and the University of Chicago.  The presentation from Northwestern [...]

NUIT Desktop Videoconferencing upgrade successful: Now you can go Mobile!

By Mike Curtis on 18 Aug 2011 – 12:23 pm
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On August 13th, we upgraded the NUIT Desktop Videoconference service to version 2.1.  The upgrade corrected and enabled SSL certification on all of the portals using a Wildcard certificate.  An additional set of features were released, such as the support for Replay – the recording and webcasting component of the service – and the mobile [...]

2011 WCAS Convocation Webcast

By Mike Curtis on 18 Jun 2011 – 1:00 pm
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The last of our graduation ceremonies this year is the WCAS Convocation.  We’re having another beautiful sunny day outside in Ryan Field, whereas last year we would be, as Stef mentioned in her SESP Convocation post, sweating our lenses off. Around 70 viewers are currently watching the stream, most likely friends and family of students [...]

2011 Kellogg Convocation

By Mike Curtis on 17 Jun 2011 – 6:50 pm
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While Stef was capturing and streaming the SESP Convocation over in Cahn Auditorium, Stephen, Zoran and I live streamed the 800 Kellogg graduates receiving their degree to over 230 viewers this evening.

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