Faculty for the 2004 Alumni College Series

Karen Brunssen, Associate Professor of Voice, is Coordinator of Voice and Opera at Northwestern University School of Music. She has taught at the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Chiari, Italy and is a frequent guest clinician/master teacher for such organizations as Chorus America, the American Choral Directors Association, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and colleges and universities.

Her students perform throughout the world in opera, oratorio, concert, recital and musical theatre. Glowing critical acclaim has accompanied mezzo-soprano Karen Brunssen from her debut in Gounod's Faust with the Cincinnati Opera, and still greets her in many appearances as a favorite guest soloist with America's finest symphony orchestras. Recent and upcoming engagements include a European tour performing Verdi's Requiem in Germany, France, Spain and Switzerland, holiday concerts with Music of the Baroque, Mendelssohn's Die Erste Walpurgisnacht with Grant Park Music Festival and Mahler Symphony No. 2 with Elgin Symphony, Verdi Requiem with Memphis Symphony, Penderecki Credo with Urbana Symphony and Brahms Alto Rhapsody at Northwestern University.

At Kellogg since 2001, he teachs “Strategic Management in the non-market environment,” which deals with issues at the intersection of business, politics, and society. His research is in political economy, dealing mostly with the application of game theory to political and economic environments.

Clarke Caywood is a member of the executive management team and director of the graduate program in public relations, a tenured member of the graduate faculty of Northwestern University and immediate past chair of the Department of Integrated Marketing Communications at Medill.

With his colleagues, Dr. Caywood developed the internationally known IMC graduate program in advertising, promotions, public relations, direct, database and e-commerce marketing. Clarke is a former Legislative Officer for a past Governor and an Attorney General of Wisconsin. He managed the first successful state-wide campaign of current Wisconsin Governor Scott McCallum. With his wife, Mary Westing Caywood, he also manages a successful executive training and management consulting firm that has trained or addressed over 7,000 business leaders on integrated marketing and communications. Dr. Caywood holds a 1985 joint doctorate from the Schools of Business and Journalism-Mass Communications in the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Mitra J. Hartmann joined Northwestern’s faculty as an assistant professor in September 2003, and has a joint appointment between Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. Her laboratory investigates the function of animal nervous systems to better understand how to construct more autonomous and agile robots.

Dr. Hartmann received her B.S. in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University, and her Ph.D. in Integrative Neurobiology from the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Hartmann’s thesis research at Caltech involved the design and application of microdrives to record neural activity from awake, freely-behaving rats, and the subsequent correlation of this neural activity with the ongoing behavior of the animals. Following graduate school, Dr. Hartmann joined NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as a Postdoctoral Scholar.

At JPL, she was involved in several projects aimed at developing information processing algorithms inspired by the active sensory and motor behaviors of animals. Her work included an internal award from NASA to investigate the rat whisker system as a model for active sensing behaviors, and serving as guest editor for a special issue of the journal Autonomous Robots focusing on Biomorphic Robotics.

Dr. Hartmann’s research at Northwestern currently includes a JPL-sponsored project, “Novel Sensor Arrays for Navigation and Object Exploration.” This project focuses on the construction of artificial robotic whisker-like sensors for intelligent sensing, to be used in real-time for planetary rover navigation, reflexive hazard avoidance, instrument placement, and object exploration. Dr. Hartmann is a recipient of Caltech’s Everhart Distinguished Graduate Student award, and a member of the Society for Neuroscience (SFN), the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

Frederick D. Lewis teaches courses in Organic Chemistry to both undergraduate and graduate
students and has played an active role in the development of the current undergraduate chemistry curriculum and the design of undergraduate teaching laboratories. He directs a research group consisting of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers.

He has received awards for both his teaching (Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, WCAS Distinguished Teaching Award as well as the 2004 NAA Excellence in Teaching Award) and research (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and 2003 Award in Photochemistry from the Inter-American Photochemical Society). His research interests are in molecular photonics: the interaction of molecules with light.

Professor Lewis was born in Boston, Massachusetts and received his undergraduate education at Amherst College. After completing his Ph.D. degree at the University of Rochester and postdoctoral research at Columbia University, he joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 1969 where he is Professor of Chemistry.

Mary Pattillo is Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies. Her areas of interest include race and ethnicity (with an emphasis on class stratification), urban sociology, and qualitative methods.

Her book, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (University of Chicago Press, 1999) won the Oliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association. She is also co-editor of Imprisoning America: The Social Consequences of Mass Incarceration (Russell Sage, 2004).

She is currently writing a book based on five years of ethnographic fieldwork examining the simultaneous processes of low-income housing construction and gentrification in a black Chicago neighborhood. Other projects include a comparative study of the transformation of public housing in Chicago; an analysis of racial differences in the class composition of extended families; and a study of educational outcomes among black and white middle class youth. Professor Patillo received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Steven Rosen, MD, FACP, is Genevieve Teuton Professor of Medicine, at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University and Cancer Programs at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Following his graduation with distinction from Northwestern University Medical School’s Six-Year Honors Program in 1976, Dr. Rosen completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern and a fellowship in Medical Oncology at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Rosen’s laboratory research focuses on experimental therapeutics and hematologic malignancies. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and contracts and has published more than 200 scientific papers. As Director of the Cancer Center, Dr. Rosen has successfully competed for an NCI Cancer Center Support Grant, NCI grants for his laboratory research, an NCI RAID Contract grant for the development of a novel purine analog, and grants from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America and American Cancer Society.

He serves on several editorial boards and is editor of Cancer Treatment & Research. He is a member of all major national associations that focus on oncology and has held leadership positions in the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, the American Association of Cancer Institutes and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. He serves on the advisory boards of several NCI-designated Cancer Centers, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America, the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, the Lymphoma Research Foundation and the Wendy Will Cancer Research Foundation. He has also served as an advisor to Great Britain’s Cancer Research Campaign. Dr. Rosen was the recipient of Northwestern University Medical School’s Alumni Achievement Award (1994), the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award from Northwestern Memorial Hospital (1995), the Marv Samuel Award from the Chicago Baseball Cancer Charities (1996) and recognition from the Women’s Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital for Compassionate Care (1996). He is acknowledged in Best Doctors in America and Best Doctors in Chicago.

James P. Spillane is a Professor in both the Human Development and Social Policy and Learning Sciences graduate programs at Northwestern University and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. He is author of Standards Deviations: How Local Schools Misunderstand Policy (Harvard University Press, 2004), and Distributed Leadership (Jossey-Bass, forthcoming). He served as associate editor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis from 2001 - 2004 and currently serves on the National Academy's Committee on High School Science Laboratories. Spillane received a Fulbright Distinguished American Scholars Award from the New Zealand Fulbright Committee in 2002. He has written numerous articles in journals such as the American Educational Research Journal, Cognition and Instruction, Sociology of Education, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Education Researcher, Teacher's College Record, Educational Policy, and Journal of Research on Science Teaching.

For more than a decade, Spillane has employed a combination of survey research, interviews, life story narratives, and observational methods to examine the implementation of state, federal, and school district education policy in schools and classrooms. Spillane is also Principal Investigator of the Distributed Leadership Project, a program of research funded by the National Science Foundation and the Spencer Foundation, which is undertaking an empirical investigation of the practice of school leadership in urban elementary schools.

Larry Stuelpnagel is an assistant professor in Medill's broadcast department. He is a former senior correspondent/anchor for WNJN-WNET (PBS) in New York/New Jersey; former news director/anchor for KHSL TV-Radio (CBS) in Chico, Calif.; and former reporter for KRCR (ABC) in Redding Calif.

His teaching credentials include former instructor at California State University, Chico, and former instructor at Butte Community College, Oroville, Calif. He is the former president of the Philadelphia Press Association. Assistant Professor Stuelpnagel received his bachelor's and master's degrees from California State University at Chico.

David E. Tolchinsky is an Associate Professor in Northwestern University's Department of Radio-TV-Film as well as Director of Northwestern's Creative Writing for the Media Program.

As a screenwriter, he has been commissioned by Touchstone/Disney, MGM Pictures, Ivan Reitman's Montecito Pictures, USA Networks, Edward R. Pressman Film Corp, and Addis-Wechsler & Assoc. to write feature screenplays. He adapted Blake Nelson's novel, Girl, into a feature film which is in regular rotation on Cinemax and HBO2 and is available from Columbia Tristar on DVD/VHS.

He also received an Artist's Fellowship in Playwriting/Screenwriting from the Illinois Arts Council, and a fellowship to study with Spalding Gray at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. He is currently represented as a writer-director by Genesis: A Literary Agency, Beverly Hills, CA.

Fred W. Turek received his undergraduate degree in the biological sciences from Michigan State University in 1969, and his PhD from Stanford University in 1973 where he carried out research on circadian and seasonal rhythms. After postdoctoral training at the University of Texas at Austin, he took a faculty position at Northwestern University.

He was the Chair of the Department of Neurobiology & Physiology from 1987-98, and is the founder and current Director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology at Northwestern University. Dr. Turek was the founding president of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) and served in this capacity for six years. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biological Rhythms from 1995-2000. He is presently a Deputy Editor of the journal Sleep.

He has served on a number of government advisory bodies and his research on biological rhythms has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, DARPA, as well as a number of private foundations and pharmaceutical companies. He has received a number of awards in recognition of his academic and research achievements, including an NIH Research Career Development Award, two Senior International Fogarty Fellowships from the NIH, a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a Distinguished Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). He received an endowed chair and was named the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Biology at Northwestern University in 1995. Dr. Turek has served on the Board of the NIH National Center on Sleep Disorders Research and is currently on the Board of the National Sleep Foundation.

Charles Whitaker has been named the 2004 Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Clinical Professor. The Distinguished Clinical Professor serves for one year, beginning in the 2004-05 academic year. He is an assistant professor of journalism and director of Medill's Academy of Alternative Journalism. Before rejoining the Medill faculty in the spring of 2002 (he had taught at Medill fulltime in the 1990s), he was the former senior editor of Ebony magazine. Before becoming an award-winning magazine writer and editor recognized with first place awards by the National Association of Education Writers and the Louisville Association of Black Communicators, he worked in the early 1980s as a newspaper reporter for the Miami Herald and the Louisville Times. He is the author of "The Whitaker Report," a statistical analysis of the hiring of women and minorities in the magazine industry. His students write of his love for magazines and journalism, of his ability to make the technical and potentially dull subject of editing come alive. He earned both bachelor's and master's degrees from Medill.

William J. White was appointed as Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Science at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science in January 1998. He is a recipient of the 2004 Northwestern Alumni Association Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2001 he was named McCormick professor of the year. In addition, he was named to the Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Role in 2000 and 2004. Prior to joining the university he served as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Bell & Howell Company. Earlier, Mr. White held executive positions with USG, Mead, and Hartmarx Corporations.

Mr. White is an Industrial Engineering graduate of Northwestern University and he received an MBA degree from Harvard University. He serves as a director of a number of organizations including The Reader’s Digest Association, Proquest Company (formerly Bell & Howell Company), Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, and The Field Museum.