John Alongi - Mathematics

Professor Alongi studies dynamical systems from a topological perspective with attention to recurrent orbits for flows and the structure of hyperbolic sets for diffeomorphisms.  He is the Director of Mathematical Experience for Northwestern Undergraduates (MENU) and School of Continuing Studies (SCS) Liaison.

Geraldo Cadava - History

A native of Tucson, Arizona, Professor Cadava specializes in histories of the U.S.-Mexico border region and Latina and Latino populations in the United States. His current project, called "Corridor of Exchange: Culture and Ethnicity in Tucson's Modern Borderlands", is about the history of the Arizona-Sonora border region since World War II. It focuses on the cultural events, institutions, and phenomena--such as a rodeo, department store, university, and public art controversy--that have shaped the area's transborder interactions and rise as a focus of national immigration debate. He teaches courses on Mexican-American History, Latino Studies, the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, and Race and Ethnicity in the United States.

Francisco Castelan - Academic Advising

Francisco is a University Academic Adviser. He specializes in health professions advising, so any pre-med students can get help from Francisco! He loves biking in Chicago.

Greg Cera - Academic Advising

Currently, fellow Greg Cera is a student advisor at NU's Academic Advising Center. In his days as an undergraduate at NU (History and Political Science major in 1996, although he started out as an environmental science major), Greg Cera worked at the White Hen on Emerson and as a bartender and waiter at Yesterdays. He earned his Masters degree in Science and Education in 1999, specializing in university administration. In his free time, Greg enjoys traveling. He recommends reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac; his favorite food is cheeseburger; and he's a very good billiard player!

Jaime Dominguez - Political Science

Jaime is a College Adviser and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science. He is one of the principal architect’s of the Chicago Democracy Project (CDP), a thirty-year online political database that provides citizens, community groups, and religious organizations with information on campaign finance, electoral outcomes, government contracts, minority appointments, and levels of public employment for the City of Chicago. He is currently working on a second grant to expand the CDP to twenty-five major cities as well as a pilot project that examines the state of Latino politics in Chicago. Jaime is particularly interested i how Latino heterogeneity and population growth is redefining traditional political and race relations between blacks and whites.

Daniel Molden - Psychology

One of Dan Molden’s main interests is the ways in which people’s motivations can influence their basic cognitive process and the implications this has for judgment and behavior. Thus far, he has pursued this interest in several different ways. The first involves examining how people’s preferences for using certain types of judgment strategies that “feel right” to them can affect the impressions they form of themselves and others. The second involves examining how these preferences affect the coping strategies people use after they experience some kind of threat to the self.

Maria Reyes Morán Fuertes - Spanish

Reyes Morán Fuertes is a Lecturer in Northwestern’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Outside the classroom, Reyes plans to pursue research in the area of Spanish language and grammar. Her goal is to research complex linguistic and grammatical phenomenon, and distill them into simpler forms which can be easily taught to non-native students of Spanish.

Dan Lewis - Education & Social Policy

Dan A. Lewis’ research agenda provides an approach to studying social policy that meets the challenge of a profound transformation in social policy over the last 40 years. Gone are the days of new federal programs to solve national problems. The New Deal and the Great Society are seen by many as the source of our problems rather than solutions. Lewis’ work responds to these changes in the political climate.

In addition to numerous articles, Lewis has written or edited six books in these areas, including The State Mental Patient and Urban Life (1994), and Race and Educational Reform in the American Metropolis (1995). At the Institute for Policy Research he has directed major program projects on community reactions to crime, deinstitutionalization of state mental health patients and Chicago school decentralization. More recently, he conducted evaluations of the homelessness problem in the Chicago suburbs. Lewis also recently headed a large-scale university consortium that studied welfare reform efforts in Illinois for the state legislature and interested citizens.

Lewis serves on many nonprofit boards and civic committees. At Northwestern, he served as director of undergraduate education at the School of Education and Social Policy. Currently, Lewis directs the Center for Civic Engagement and the San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Field Study Programs.

Sonbinh Nguyen - Chemistry

SonBinh’s research encompasses three divisions in chemical science: inorganic/organometallic chemistry, organic synthesis, and polymer science. He is also interested in environmental friendly catalysis and biomaterials.

Andy Rivers - Physics & Astronomy

Andrew Rivers is a Weinberg College Adviser and a Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy. Andrew's Ph.D. research included a large scale radio astronomy survey of the so-called "Zone of Avoidance": a large region of the sky containing few visible external galaxies due to obscuration by dust near the disk of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Looking for hidden galaxies using long wavelength radio waves, which pass through the dust unobscured, Andrew discovered approximately 20 previously unknown nearby galaxies. In his free time, Andrew enjoys spending time with his wife Carolyn, his daughter Cassie, and his Pekinese puppy "Boo". Leisure activities include tinkering with Linux, attending obscure art films and reading nonfiction from diverse fields.

Fay Rosner - French

Fay Rosner currently teaches intermediate French courses, as well as the French Writing Workshop.  She earned her Ph.D. in French at the University of Chicago, where she was awarded a Whiting Dissertation Fellowship.  While at the U. of C. she taught introductory and intermediate French, as well as a course on Proust and a survey course on world literature.  She is currently working on a paper to be presented at an international Proust conference to be hosted by The University of Illinois at Urbana.  In Winter 2010, she will be teaching a Freshman Seminar on the representation of music, painting and theater inIn Search of Lost Time. Her professional interests include integrating the arts and literature into language instruction, strategies to improve writing, and the relationship between philosophy and literature. 

Joseph Schofer - Civil Engineering

Professor Schofer's research interests focus on planning and management of transportation systems, particularly the provision and use of data and information for effective decision-making and evaluation of systems, plans and projects. He works on mobility and safety of people and sustainability of transportation systems from the perspectives of policy, planning, design and operations. Recently he has explored variable speed limit systems, factors affecting pedestrian crashes, transportation contributions to sustainable community development, and use of data and forecasts by transportation decision makers.

Greg Ward - Linguistics

Greg Ward's primary research area is discourse/pragmatics, with specific interests in pragmatic theory, information structure, intonational meaning, and reference/anaphora. He has published over 70 papers and given over 135 talks and presentations.