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 […]
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 […]
On 31 October 2019, following work that I had done in the International Human Rights Law & Practice Clinic during my time in the MSL program, I had the opportunity to facilitate and present at a first-of-its-kind, legal and community training workshop in Hyderabad, India, on the subject of a human rights-based response to tuberculosis. […]
Graduation is not far off for the MSL class of 2020! As students start to think more about what they will do after graduation, the MSL program staff is running a series of panels and workshops to help expose students to the wide range of professional opportunities that await them. January featured two such panels, […]
Welcome to 2020! As we greet this exciting new year, I thought this would be a good time to recap the year that was: 2019. We began 2019 by ushering in our first cohort of “spring start” online students – these are the first MSL students to begin studies in the Spring semester. Having a […]
We’re delighted to have the opportunity to again write about Steven Hansen‘s (MSL ’18) continued entrepreneurial success. His company, Odin Technologies, won the diagnostics startup track at MedCity INVEST in Chicago in April. You can read all about it in this Yahoo Finance story. Steven has been working to raise funds and advance his product […]
Last month, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) held its biggest annual advocacy event: DO Day on Capitol Hill. DO Day on Capitol Hill offers DOs and osteopathic medical students the opportunity to advocate for their profession by educating members of Congress about the importance of their field and the most pressing issues they are facing […]
After studying engineering at Northwestern University, Laurelle Banta (MSL ’17) wanted to learn more about intellectual property and how to protect the ideas she was coming up with in the lab. She didn’t know she was also about to become an entrepreneur. As an MSL student, Laurelle took the NUvention Energy course, met a team […]
Each year more than 25 billion pounds of post-harvest fruits and vegetables are wasted domestically, worth ~$30 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These statistics are astounding – and also heartbreaking when you consider the 42.2 million people, including 6.4 million children, living without enough to eat in the U.S. One Chicago-based company, […]