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
Clare Forstie Graduate Assistant, Graduate Programs
Muveddet Harris Program Associate, Faculty Programs
Greg Light Director
Stanley Lo Senior Research Associate: STEM Projects
Erica Maslanka Coordinator, Academic Programs
Marina Micari Associate Director, Undergraduate Programs 
Louise Edwards Neiman Graduate Assistant, Graduate Programs 
Jennifer Pickard-Criswell Research Project Coordinator
Tom Popelka Program Associate, Graduate Programs
Dreana Rubel Center Manager
Nancy Ruggeri Associate Director, Graduate Programs
Bernhard Streitwieser International Research 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

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

Mirian Diop, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Tracy Dobie, Learning Sciences
Kate Dugan, Religious Studies
Clare Forstie, Sociology
Jennifer Hobbs, Physics
Lindsey Madison, Chemistry
Rebecca Marchiel, History
David Molina, Rhetoric and Public Culture
Garrett Morrison, English
Sarah Roth, English
Emil Temnyalov, Economics
Desiree Weber, Political Science

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

Christine Simonian Bean, Theatre
Daphne Demetry, Sociology
Madison Fitzpatrick, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Natalie Gruenke, Chemstry
Matthew June, History
Taylor Page, Chemistry

Work-Study Students:
  • Liliana Bonilla
  • Cindy Chen
Gateway Science Workshop Program Assistants:
  • Angelica Kielbus

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

NTAC Workshop Leaders

International Teaching Fellows