Industry Associates Night is always one of the biggest MSL events of the year, but this year, the MSL Program hosted the first ever virtual Industry Associates Night on Friday, April 17, 2020. The event featured seven amazing panelists across a variety of industries, including consulting, privacy, medicine, venture capital, food safety, intellectual property, and […]
Month: April 2020
MSL Alumna Alice Lu (MSL ’20) on Organizing a Global, Virtual Hackathon for 350+ People in 7 days…
I work as the coordinator of a health data project for the Chicago Department of Public Health. My team is going into our sixth week of work from home now, and Chicago as a whole is entering its fifth week of the shelter in place. It’s been an emotional rollercoaster, especially seeing how much the […]
So how many people can say that they finished their Master’s during a pandemic?
It really sunk in after we sorted through the myriad of administrative emails and news updates: our experience in the MSL Program, at the Northwestern Law School, and in the city of Chicago would never be the same. We suddenly found ourselves Zoom-ing through our last quarter, in an unprecedented way, with the heavy support […]
A Week in the Life of MSL Student Justin Chae (MSL ’20)
We often get asked by prospective students: what will my days look like as a student in the MSL Program? To help answer this question, current student Justin Chae (MSL ’20) wrote the following blog post. He wrote this piece just before the MSL Program transitioned to eLearning in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak; […]
Job Search During CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19
Just like everybody else, MSL students are feeling the crush of the current health crisis. One topic that we have received a lot of questions about involves the current state of the job market. Though there isn’t a lot of concrete information available right now, our Director of Program Development, Shilpa Gokhale, recently compiled some […]
MSL Alumna Alice Lu (MSL ’20) Reflects on UNLEASH 2019
UNLEASH is a non-profit global innovation lab that selects 1,000 young people each year to develop solutions for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The solutions are developed at the “innovation lab,” which is hosted in a different country each year. UNLEASH 2019 took place in Shenzhen, China this past November. There were 18,000 […]
MSL Student Keerti Tadimeti on the Impact of COVID-19 on Underserved Populations in America
“COVID-19 May Have a Disproportionately Heavy Toll on Underserved, At-Risk, and Vulnerable Patient Populations.” While a vast majority of the U.S. population have started working from home and have emptied stores while stockpiling for social distancing, there’s a large group of underserved communities who aren’t able to do this, and thus are at a […]