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February 25, 2025
It’s starting to feel like spring, so ditch your hat and gloves and make your way to campus to learn something new, take in a game and more. Here are a few highlights to add to your calendar this week. As always, all are welcome!
Kellogg hoops in the community
Come watch students from the Kellogg School of Management as they venture off campus for a friendly game of basketball against the Orchard Village Blossoms. The Blossoms are all participants of programs provided by Orchard Village, a local nonprofit serving people with developmental disabilities.
The game is at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, March 5, at the Orchard Village Activity Center, 7672 Marmora Ave., Skokie.
The art of medicine
MK Czerwiec delivers a Montgomery Lecture on the field of graphic medicine — the intersection of the medium of comics and the discourse of medicine. Czerwiec, who has been making comics under the pseudonym “Comic Nurse” since 2000, will also share excerpts from her book-in-progress.
The lecture is at noon on Thursday, March 6, in the Searle Room, Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center, 303 E. Superior St., Chicago. Or, register for a virtual option here.
Unbreakable resolve
See the short film “THE REBEL GIRLS” by the School of Communication’s Felicia D. Henderson, followed by a Q&A with Henderson and the cast. Inspired by real events in 1963, the film follows more than 15 girls who “disappeared” after protesting at a segregated theater in Georgia. The girls were forced to sit in a stockade for nearly 60 days but survived through their sisterhood, magical thinking and humor.
The screening is at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 7, at The Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston. RSVP here.
Music old and new
Join the Northwestern Medical Orchestra for its winter chamber music concert, an evening of selections by Beethoven, Dvořák and Hisaishi, as well as jazz and pop favorites.
The concert is at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 7, in Thorne Auditorium, 375 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago. Register here to attend.
Laws of labor
Weinberg’s Daniel Galvin, director of the Workplace Justice Lab at Northwestern, delivers a lecture on the misalignment of powers and practices in labor standards enforcement as part of the Institute for Policy Research’s winter colloquium series.
Galvin speaks at noon on Monday, March 10, in Chambers Hall, 600 Foster St., Evanston.
The keys to communication
This workshop for Ph.D.s and post-docs will cover developing professional relationships and ways to communicate about the Ph.D. experience. Attendees will review LinkedIn best practices, discuss communication approaches and explore alumni platforms and networks.
The workshop is at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11, in the Searle Seminar Room, Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center, 303 E. Superior St., Chicago. Register via Handshake.
Home base
Watch baseball take on Illinois State during their first home game of the 2025 season.
The team plays at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11, at Rocky and Berenice Miller Park, 2750 Ashland Ave., Evanston. Buy tickets here.
