$10,000
2017 • 3 months • On Nigeria
Northwestern University, in collaboration with the Chicago Council for Global Affairs and the University of Chicago, is bringing together a group of leading experts in Chicago to participate in a forum to examine democracy and security in Nigeria. A series of public and private events is taking place across the city. A concluding forum, hosted in collaboration with the Shehu Yar’Adua Center, takes place in Nigeria.
$385,000
2014 • 2 years 5 months • Digital Media & Learning
Northwestern University’s Office of STEM Education Partnerships connects grade K-12 students and teachers with the world-class science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) resources of Northwestern University. This grant supports its FUSE program, designed by Northwestern to engage young people in STEM learning through easy-to-accomplish, hands-on, exploratory challenges. This grant will enable FUSE to augment its library of challenge-based sequences in areas such as robotics, electronics, and 3-D prototyping; implement new measures to assess the program’s impact on the development of 21st century skills; and develop a sustainability plan to meet growing national and international demand for FUSE programming.
$1,350,000
2013 • 4 years • Community & Economic Development
The Institute for Policy Research is an interdisciplinary public policy research institute at Northwestern University. Among the many significant areas in which it conducts social science research are law enforcement, criminal justice, and the study of American policing. The Institute will use this grant to undertake a multi-year community survey as the second wave of analysis of the procedural justice reforms underway at the Chicago Police Department. Wesley Skogan, a preeminent scholar on police reform and the author of numerous studies of the Chicago Police Department, will lead the examination of the new model of policing for Chicago.
$9,534
2013 • 1 year • Journalism & Media
Northwestern University, in co-production with German Camera Productions, will produce the documentary film Saving Mes Aynak, directed by Brett Huffman, about a team of international archaeologists racing to excavate the ancient Afghan city of Mes Aynak before a Chinese mining company destroys it to create an open-pit copper mine. The film follows the experiences of Afghan and international archeologists, the local Afghans, mining company officials, and activists.
$350,000
2013 • 1 year • Digital Media & Learning
Northwestern University’s Office of STEM Education Partnerships supports grade K-to-12 students and teachers by connecting them with the world-class science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) resources of Northwestern University. It will use this grant to help bring to scale the FUSE project, an effort to engage young people in STEM fields through easy-to-accomplish, hands-on exploratory challenges. Northwestern will focus on increasing the number of challenge-based sequences, in areas such as robotics, electronics, and 3-D prototyping, to easily engage a young person in a continuum of STEM learning from novice to expert over the course of a year.
$500,000
2012 • 2 years 3 months • Community & Economic Development
Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research is an interdisciplinary public policy research institute that conducts research in many public policy areas, including law enforcement, criminal justice, and American policing. The Institute will evaluate a major reorganization and reform of the Chicago Police Department that seeks to engage public, private, and community leaders in creating a new model of policing for Chicago. Wesley Skogan, a preeminent scholar on police reform and the author of numerous studies of the Chicago Police Department, will lead the work.
$2,137,612
2010 • 3 years • Housing
In support of the Research Network on How Housing Matters to Families and Children (over three years).
$300,000
2007 • 1 year • Digital Media & Learning
To conduct an analysis of the feasibility of creating a longitudinal quantitative survey of young people's participation with digital media.
$73,408
1998 • 2 years 10 months
For "Afro-Modernity: Transnational Cooperation and the Politics of the African Diaspora."
$9,704
1988 • 1 year 1 month
Technical assistance support for research and development of materials on regional theater to present at the Grantmakers in the Arts conference.
$25,000
1986 • 1 year 1 month
To support a formal planning effort to integrate telecommunications research and degree programs.
$25,000
1983 • 1 year
To support the archeological program, to establish a Fox River Valley archeological project, and to improve the Ridge Avenue laboratory/headquarters facility in Evanston.
$375,336
1981 • 1 year
To study the schemata of depressed and non-depressed persons and their influence on information processing.
$1,200,000
1981 • 1 year
Support to establish a John D. MacArthur Chair.
$395,000
1980 • 1 year
To support fellowships for minority doctoral candidates in the physical sciences and engineering at CIC member institutions (Big Ten schools and the University of Chicago).