Who We Are

Name Title
Remi Akinyemi Project Coordinator
Susanna Calkins Associate Director, Faculty Development
Denise Drane Associate Director, Research & Evaluation
Luke Flores Senior Associate, BioEXCEL and NU Bioscientist
Andrew French GSW Coordinator, AMP Co-Coordinator
Greg Light Director
Stanley Lo Senior Research Associate: STEM Projects
Marina Micari Associate Director, Undergraduate Programs 
Jennifer Pickard-Criswell AMP Co-Coordinator, Research Project Coordinator
Tom Popelka Program Associate
Dreana Rubel Center Manager
Nancy Ruggeri Associate Director, Graduate Programs
Bernhard Streitwieser International Research Associate
Shyanmei Wang Program Associate
Sara Woods Program Consultant
The Searle Center Advisory Board meets with the Center's directors on a quarterly basis to provide feedback and participate in discussions about the Center's programs and research efforts.
Name Title
James Edward Colgate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Raymond Curry Dean for Education and Professor of Medicine and Medical Education, Feinberg School of Medicine
Ava Greenwell Associate Professor, Medill School of Journalism
Robert Linsenmeier Professor, Neurobiology & Physiology, Weinberg College of Arts & Science
Franziska Lys Associate Professor, German, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Thomas Mason Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Lawrence Pinto Professor, Neurobiology & Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Chris Riesbeck Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Alvin Telser Associate Professor Emeritus, Feinberg School of Medicine
Ann Woodworth Associate Professor, Theatre, School of Communication

Graduate Teaching Consultants (TCs) are specially trained graduate students who are outstanding alumni of the TA Fellows program. TCs, along with Center Staff, provide consultation and feedback services to instructors in the Northwestern community, and facilitate the Graduate Workshops.

Louise Edwards, Theatre
Natalie Gruenke, Chemistry
Jennifer Hobbs, Physics
Lisa Kelly, Theatre
Rebecca Marchiel, History
Garrett Morrison, English
Taylor Page, Chemistry
Rachel Ricci, Political Science
Karthik Sekar, Chemical Engineering
Desiree Weber, Political Science

Graduate Teaching Mentors are outstanding alumni of the Graduate Teaching Certificate program who help current program participants by providing consultation, feedback and administrative support to the program coordinator.

Jenna Luque, Linguistics
Rebecca Marchiel, History
Kate Newbold, RTVF
Taylor Page, Chemistry
Munjulika Rahman, Performance Studies
Kiki Zissimopoulos, Biomedical Engineering

Work-Study Students:
  • Liliana Bonilla
  • Cindy Chen
  • Hyerin Lee
  • Ayo Olagbegi
Gateway Science Workshop Program Assistants:
  • Gabrielle Budzon
  • Chu Yu

Fellows of the Center help advance and support teaching and learning across the university in a variety of ways.  From leading conversations about teaching in workshops and roundtables, to offering feedback and guidance to junior colleagues, to publicly sharing their scholarly inquiries into teaching, Fellows are integral to the Center's work.

Searle Fellows

Searle Fellows Mentors

McCormick Fellows

Graduate Teaching Fellows

Teaching Assistant Fellows

International Teaching Fellows