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Bucked in the red zoneCats fight to the finish butdrop ball at Ryan Field

By ALEX PUTTERMAN @AlexPutt

ESPN’s “College GameDay” broad-cast from Evanston went o like a dreamSaturday morning.en, Northwestern

matched Ohio State blow for blow formore than three quarters Saturday night.An above-capacity student section atRyan Field prepared to explode onto theeld.

But a succession of misfortunes le the Cats a few points behind with secondsto play, and when the Buckeyes jumpedon an errant NU lateral to end the gamewith a touchdown, campus moaned indisappointment.

e No. Cats (-) lost to the No. Buckeyes (-) - in a nation-ally televised thriller that lived up to itsimmense buildup in every way but NU’send result. e game featured six leadchanges, the last of which — a rushingtouchdown from Ohio State’s CarlosHyde with minutes and seconds toplay — condemned the Cats to a heart-

breaking loss.“We played a darn good football team

tonight,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “Formost of the game, able to go toe to toe. We

just ended up a few plays short.”Aer Hyde’s score, NU pushed the ball

into Ohio State’s territory, but the Catswere stopped inches short of a rst down.On fourth and short, senior quarterback Kain Colter gathered a bobbled snap andlunged forward toward the rst-downmarker.e ocials spotted the ball justshort of the measuring sticks and upheldthe play upon review. ough the Catsregained possession minutes later, thelast-ditch lateral play ended with theBuckeyes in the end zone. Aerward,

Fitzgerald expressed annoyance withthe fourth-down call.

“I thought they spotted it where heinitially fumbled the ball,” he said. “It justseems like anytime there’s that big scrum,you’re going to hear, ‘e call stands.’ Idon’t like that call. I hate ‘the call stands.’It usually means ‘there’s something there,

but we can’t see it.’”At several points, the Cats appeared in

control. NU led-at halime, as Col-ter caught one touchdown and rushed foranother in therst.e Buckeyes scoredtheir lone pre-halime touchdown on ablocked NU punt that Ohio State recov-ered in the end zone.e Cats took a -point lead with

an early-second half eld goal, but OhioState’s Hyde, whonished withyardsrushing, scored two touchdowns withina few minutes, and the Buckeyes ledfor the rst time since the early secondquarter. Aer the Cats responded witha quick scoring drive, Hyde’s third scoreand NU’s ensuing failed drives ended theCats’ upset aspirations.

“We’ve got to make the plays whenthey present themselves,” Fitzgerald said.

“We can’t turn the ball over. We’ve got toscore touchdowns instead of eld goalsin the red zone.”

ere were positives for the Cats onboth sides of the ball. Senior runningback Venric Mark returned from injury to accumulate yards on the groundandmore through the air, and seniorwide receiver Rashad Lawrence reinedin eight passes for yards.

e Cats’ defense forced three turn-overs from Ohio State quarterback Brax-ton Miller, who completed of his pass attempts and averaged four yardson rushes.

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COME TOGETHER Senior wide receiver Mike Jensen talks to his Wildcat teammates Saturday. Facing adaunting Ohio State, Northwestern wanted to prove it could compete with the best in the nation. The teamultimately fell 40-30 at home.

Indie bandGrouplove to openat A&O Blowout

Indie band Grouplove will openfor Childish Gambino at A&O’s Blow-out concert Oct. , the organizationannounced Sunday night.

Tickets for the concert go on sale a.m. Monday through the Norris BoxOce website.

Grouplove released its second album,“Spreading Rumours,” on Sept. .egroup’s debut album, “Never Trust aHappy Song,” included “Tongue Tied,”which went platinum. e group hasperformed at festivals such as Coachella,Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza.

Doors to Welsh-Ryan Arena willopen at : p.m., and a special guestof Childish Gambino will perform at p.m., followed by Grouplove. ChildishGambino will perform at p.m.

A&O sent out a poll in the spring spe-cically for Blowout and stressed that itplayed a role in selecting performers.

“Because indie and rap were our twohighest genres, we were really excitedto get people from both genres,” A&Ospokeswoman Rosalind Mowitt said of the poll results. “(Grouplove) also didpretty well on the poll, especially for anopener.”e Weinberg senior added that

Grouplove is “energetic and has funmusic.”

“You want an opener that has highenergy,” she said. “We place such a highimportance on making our shows enjoy-able as a live experience.”

A&O chairman Demetrios Cokinossaid Grouplove complements ChildishGambino well.

“ey are both high energy andengage with the crowd,” the Commu-nication senior said. “I’m super excitedfor the show.”

— Tyler Pager

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‘College GameDay’ shines spotlight on NU

By JOSEPH DIEBOLD @josephdiebold

Moments aera.m. Saturday, view-ers across the country heard ESPN hostChris Fowler open therst broadcast of “College GameDay” from Northwest-ern in years.

“ese hardcores have waited theirwhole lives for a game like this, a pro-gram that in decades past was laughedat, picked on, put down, pushed around,”Fowler said. “It’s revenge of the nerdsthese days.”

ESPN’s college football preview

show, which airs every Saturday fromthe location of the week’s top game, setup last week on the Lakell, ahead of the Wildcats’ Saturday night matchupagainst Ohio State. e show’s visitmarked its rst time in Evanston sinceNU faced Iowa in , although it alsobroadcast from Wrigley Field in when the Cats took on Illinois.

With signs ranging from irreverent(“Kanye named his baby aer us”) toacademic (“Urban Meyer cites Wikipe-dia”) to slightly vulgar (“our endowmentis bigger than yours”), students packedthe pit behind the show’s set well beforethe sun rose over Lake Michigan. Somestudents arrived at the Lakell as early

as p.m. Friday.At the end of the show, ESPN ana-

lyst Lee Corso correctly predicted OhioState as the eventual victor by donningthe head of Brutus Buckeye, garneringloud boos from the NU crowd. BrentMusburger (Medill ‘) was featured asthe show’s guest picker, coming out in acustom purple No. jersey.

A who’s who of NU names visited the“GameDay” set. University PresidentMorton Schapiro and athletic directorJim Phillips chatted with guests. Footballcoach Pat Fitzgerald was interviewed onthe show and Mike Greenberg (Medill

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A&O Grouplove performs at a2011 concert. A&O announcedSunday night the alternative rockband would open for ChildishGambino at Friday’s A&O Blowout.

» See COLLEGE GAMEDAY, page 7

Hakeem brothers’deaths ruledhomicides

More than two months after theHakeem brothers were shot andkilled in their downtown Evanstonbusiness, their deaths have beenruled homicides, according to theCook County medical examiner’soffice.

They died from multiple gunshotwounds, the medical examiner’soffice said Friday morning.

The cause and manner of theirdeaths had been classified as “pend-ing further investigation” until lastweek.

Azim Hakeem, , and MobeenHakeem, , were found shot todeath the night of July in the base-ment of Evanston Pipe & Tobacco, Davis St.

Family members believe thebrothers were working at the shoppreviously run by their father whenthey were taken to the basement andshot multiple times.

Farheen Hakeem, the brothers’sister, said Mobeen Hakeem was shotfive times in the head, which has ledher parents to suspect a h ate crime.

“My parents believe you must bereally angry at somebody if you do

five shots,” she said.On Thursday evening, Cmdr. Jay

Parrott said there are “no indica-tors” the fatal shootings were a h atecrime.

“But we don’t ever discountinformation people bring to us,” headded.

The brothers’ mother said lastmonth that she is growing impa-tient with the investigation into

their deaths.She singled out the Evanston

Police Department.“They find nothing,” Mahjabeen

Hakeem told The Daily last month.“We don’t know anything.”

At the time, Parrott said detec-tives were “working on leads” andforensics testing of evidence.

— Patr ick S vite k

Source: Farheen Hakeem

ONGOING INVESTIGATION The shooting deaths of Azim and MobeenHakeem were ruled homicides last week. The brothers were shot to deathJuly 30 in their tobacco shop in downtown Evanston. Their mother hassaid that that Evanston police “find nothing.”



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Ribbon cut at new ETHS entrance

More than 20 cartons of cigarettesstolen from carousands of dollars worth of cigarettes were

stolen ursday from a car near Evanston’s bor-der with Skokie, according to police.e Dodge Caravan was broken into between

: a.m. and : p.m. in the block of Main Street, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrottsaid. e -year-old owner of the vehicle had

just bought more than cartons of cigarettesat Sam’s Club, Main St.

Parrott estimated the total cost of the cartons is

“several thousands of dollars … at minimum.”He said similar incidents have happened in the

Sam’s Club parking lot but did not know whetherthe latest robbery was related to them.

Detectives are looking for video of theincident.

Man robs daycare teacher at churchTA man robbed a daycare teacher Wednes-

day morning at First United Methodist Church,according to police.

Parrott said the teacher discovered her purse

had been taken out of a cabinet in the church, Church St. Sixty dollars was missing fromit.

Video surveillance shows the man enteringthe church at about : a.m. and walkingtoward the basement where the purse was kept,Parrott said.

Police described the man as black, to years old, having a mustache and wearing abutton-down shirt and black shoes.

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School and city ocials celebrated the new frontentrance of Evanston Township High School with aribbon-cutting ceremony Friday aernoon.e entrance culminates a series of improve-

ments to the school’s facilities in recent years,including a lit eld for football games, upgradedbaseball diamonds and a plaza behind ETHS, saidEric Witherspoon, superintendent of District .e new front entrance is not for only aesthetic

purposes, Witherspoon said.e school, Dodge Ave., also needed more

space and better lighting for students waiting forrides home at night.

“It’s a great opportunity to celebrate one morestep forward for ETHS,” Witherspoon said. “Wewant this school to shine in every way, includingthe front entrance.”

Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, a former member of the District school board, spoke at the cer-

emony, saying she was “proud” of the project.“ETHS is the glue that holds our community

together,” Tisdahl said. “ETHS is extremely impor-tant to ... every single member of the community.”

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OPEN SESAME Evanston officials including Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl (center) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday afternoon for the new front entrance of Evanston Township HighSchool, 1600 Dodge Ave. Tisdahl called ETHS the “glue that holds our community together.”

e ceremony took place aer the school’shomecoming pep rally. Witherspoon, Tisdahl andDboard president Gretchen Livingston cut the

ribbon.Witherspoon said students are enthusiastic about

the new facilities.ETHS senior Brittany Estes said she enjoyed

the new entrance and said that it looked“comfortable.”

“It looks like a college campus,” she said. “I just

came over and sat down. I’d never sat in the front of the school before. Now it looks really nice.”

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Homecoming

NU pride displayed at annual paradeBy PRESTON R. MICHELSON

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Homecoming Week ended Friday with the annualparade, with students and alumni traveling downSheridan Road, cheering on oats from campus andcity organizations.

From Lincoln Street down to e Arch, groupsfrom sororities to kazoo marching bands supportedNorthwestern athletics in their own way. Nearly oats participated in the parade.

As night fell and chants of “Go U! NU!” streamedthrough campus, members of the community applauded representatives of the school — mostprominently grand marshal Mike Greenberg (Medill’) and University President Morton Schapiro, bothof whom traveled at the front of the parade. Schapirowasrst, riding in a convertible with his wife, daughterand two dogs. Next came Greenberg, who waved le and right to Wildcat fans. Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl

also rode on a oat to represent Evanston.e parade and the subsequent pep rally on

Deering Meadow were the culmination of a long day for some NU students.

At a.m. Saturday, “Mike & Mike” — an ESPNsports talk radio featuring Greenberg — broadcastfrom Deering Meadow.

Greenberg introduced the members of theHomecoming Court and crowned the queen andking —SESP senior Kiley Naas and Weinberg seniorDemetrios Elias — at Friday’s pep rally,

Schapiro was greeted with a “Morty!” chant as hetook the stage. He showed his excitement about thegame, saying, “is is about football. Enjoy yourself,be proud, be loud, wear purple, go Cats!”

In his role as grand marshal, Greenberg also gavethe fans in attendance a pep talk.

“Millions of people tomorrow are going to ndout what we have already long known: is is theplace where we’re doing it right,” he said. “is is theplace where you can combine elite academics andelite athletics — and do it together and right and withintegrity.”

Homecoming co-chair Kate Geraghty said she was

fully impressed with the NU student turnout.“It was incredible,” the Weinberg senior said. “I had

never seen Deering that full before. I don’t think therehad ever been that many people at a Homecomingpep rally before.”is year’s Homecoming theme was “NU ‘Cats on

the Block,” which celebrated the s, and campusgroups decorated their own posters incorporatingthat theme.e combinedoat of Alpha Epsilon Pi and Delta

Zeta displayed a variation of the title card of the chil-dren’s television show “CatDog” — with the cat’s headtransformed into a Wildcat with Ohio State mascotBrutus Buckeye in its mouth.

Male members of the Chi Omega and Lamda ChiAlpha team dressed in white and sang songs frompopular boy bands like *NSYNC.

University Police barricaded intersecting streets toprevent trac from reaching the parade. e Evan-ston Police Department and NU ROTC also assistedwith crowd control.

In a call to arms directed at the scores of alumniand current students at the pep rally, Greenberg saidfour words: “is is our time.”

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WILDCAT PRIDE Weinberg sophomoreMichelle Lortie, a member of theNorthwestern University Marching

Band’s color guard, performs during theHomecoming pep rally Friday evening.

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MIKE & MIKE Mike Greenberg (Medill ‘89)and his co-host Mike Golic broadcast livefrom Deering Meadow early Friday morning.

Greenberg was the Homecoming grand marshal.

‘Mike & Mike’ kicks o Homecoming weekend with live broadcast

ESPN Radio’s Mike Greenberg (Medill ‘) and co-host Mike Golic got Homecoming weekend startedbright and early Friday morning, broadcasting theirshow, “Mike & Mike,” live from Deering Meadow beginning at a.m.

Diehard fans were already at Deering for the rstsegment of the show — which is scheduled to coincidewith East Coasters’ morning commute.

With the sun not yet rising over DeeringLibrary and “MIKE&MIKE” emblazoned on the

topoor windows of the Donald P. Jacobs Center,

Greenberg introduced the show by recalling his timein Evanston.

“We are live in Deering Meadow on the campus of Northwestern University,” he said. “Twenty-four yearsago, I took my last nal in the building immediately toour right, which is called Leverone Hall, and now herewe are directly in the center of campus on what’s kick-ing o what is one of the biggest football weekendsthat this school has ever seen.”

Golic, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame,took the opportunity to rib Greenberg about NU’spreference for academics over socializing.

“As we were walking from the car over here andwe happened to be walking with some of the stu-dents, it’s interesting — at most places they’re comingfrom the bar,” Golic said. “All these people came from

the library. It’s all true, everything you hear about

Northwestern.ey were just studying.”Greenberg and Golic also interviewed fellow ESPN

personality Michael Wilbon (Medill ‘).Greenberg and Wilbon discussed the change in

NU’s athletic culture that has occurred since each wason campus in the s.

“We have to get accustomed to something thefootball team is already accustomed to,” Wilbon said.“ey don’t have the same expectations of the alumswho were here in what I call ‘the Dark Ages.’ is isnot that Northwestern anymore.”

Greenberg also served as grand marshal for theHomecoming Parade later Friday and was the honor-ary captain for the football team in their game Satur-day night against Ohio State.

— Joseph Diebold



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By JULIAN GEREZ

City ocials and residents Friday aernoontouted the designation of the Central Street neigh-borhood as one of “Great Neighborhoods”across the United States.e national recognition came from the Wash-

ington, D.C.- based American Planning Associa-

tion. In announcing the award earlier Friday, the

group said the Central Street neighborhood hasan “edgy urban vibe with a small town pace andsensibility.”

“Hard work has paid o in this award, but evenmore so in this wonderful neighborhood that wehave,” Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said at a news con-ference at Independence Park.

Mark Muenzer, the city’s director of community development, said Northwestern has played animportant role in shaping Central Street — and not

just through football games at Ryan Field.

“ey were one of the assets the APA describedwhen they gave this designation,” Muenzer tolde Daily. “Professionals and students from theuniversity patronize all the businesses here.”

Despite its proximity to NU, the APA said onits website that Central Street is “not just anothercampus town area.”e APA also praised the neighborhood’s his-

toric and recreational attractions, bicycle- andpedestrian-friendly walkways, accessible public

transportation and civic activism.

Central Street is the only location in Illinois towin the accolade this year.

Tisdahl said that despite the more recognizablefeatures of the neighborhood, it is the inhabitantswho dene it.

“It’s the people who come to Central Street,who come to read, to shop, to play, to commute,the people who work and live here that make theneighborhood special,” Tisdahl said.

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WILDCAT WIT Tori de Metz (center) submitted a shot with her friends and NU-themed signs on the “GameDay” sidelines.

Northwestern students brought sass and snark to the Lakell onSaturday, hoping forseconds of TV fame.e line to watch ESPN’s“College GameDay” started Friday night, with many people bringingsigns to share with broadcasters and roaming cameras.

Before students got up for “GameDay,” e Daily asked them

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Northwestern enjoys showcasing its proxim-ity to Chicago to prospective students. On paper,this seems like one of NU’s biggest assets. WhenI was a prospective student, I remember gettingexcited over the idea of taking a shuttle down-town every week and exploring the city.

Today, I (and most NU undergrads) laughat this naive enthusiasm. As a sophomore, I’vegone to Chicago maybe twice. I rarely meetpeople who visit Chicago on the weekends,despite it being half an hour away. Students aretoo attached to the campus where they live to

venture beyond it.ey’re bound to their com-mitments and their friends and rarely makethe time to explore opportunities outside theirroutine.

However, one place only allows you to experi-ence so much. By staying on campus, some of usend up living in the “NU bubble.” We grow usedto our weekly routine and fail to see the bigger

picture. Our lives are measured and divided by classes and activities, and we oen feel stressedbecause of it.

How do we take a step back? My advicewould be to go to Chicago. Take advantage of that shuttle system, the CTA and the Metra.is summer I realized the importance of

traveling. I didn’t have a job, and the only thingon my schedule was volunteering at a hospitaltwice a week. e rest of the time I watched TVand saw friends. It was fun at rst, but aer awhile it was no longer exciting. I found myself tired and unmotivated most of the time.

Toward the end of the summer, I broke my routine and went to Israel for ten days on aprogram called Birthright. I was with otherNU students, and it was a fantastic experience.Being in a such a di erent place made me wantto explore and enjoy myself. I got to meet Israelisoldiers and see how they lived. When I wastalking to the soldiers, I gained perspective onlife that I never would have found at home.

Upon returning home, I held on to this new perspective for about a week before I noticed itdeteriorating as I got back into the old routine of things. I became lazy again and got into my badhabits of being unmotivated.

In that moment, I promised myself I wouldtravel more. It’s too easy to fall into a routine andgrow complacent with it. Traveling gives peoplean opportunity to remove themselves, have funand think and act di erently in a new setting,even if it isn’t on the other side of the globe.

So far this fall, I’ve journeyed around theMidwest visiting friends at di erent schools, andI’ve realized it’s pretty easy and inexpensive todo so. Greyhound and Megabus o er relatively cheap tickets. Although it can be dicult toschedule trips because of my classes and activi-ties, it’s denitely not as hard as I anticipated itwould be.

Not only have these trips been really fun, butthey also help me burst the NU bubble that Ioen nd myself in. Going out and seeing otherschools also helps me appreciate this campus inways that I otherwise would never understand.I’m excited to continue to expand my worldview throughout the rest of college, and I know trav-eling to new places will help me achieve that.

Thomas Pollick is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].

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Despite Homecoming loss, keep support highOn Saturday, our Wildcats stepped on to

Ryan Field to cheers from a sold-out stadium— including a student section lled beyond its,-person capacity. Even before the gatesopened for ESPN’s “College GameDay” early Saturday morning to well aer the game endedthat night, Northwestern displayed unprec-edented unity and school spirit.e level of pride shown by students and

alumni alike was a welcome surprise. It wouldbe a challenge to nd many students who didn’tmake a memory Saturday. Yet e Daily worriesabout what will happen going forward, whenour next game won’t be the top-billed matchupin the nation, when the ESPN camera is gone,when millions of television viewers turn to anew team for a night.

Finding joy in a winning athletic departmentand cherishing that experience is not atypi-cal. And aer more than half the student body

turned out for the Homecoming game, that isclear. However, the team that stepped out of themouth of a gigantic Wildcat on Saturday is notfundamentally di erent or drastically better thanthe team that played in the last two years. Beforethe game’s stellar play and tough loss, NU heldthe fourth-longest win streak in college football.Last year we won games, including the GatorBowl. e Cats have shown week in and week out that not only do they deserve the same rec-ognition as any other top-tier football team, butalso equal fan appreciation and attendance. isweekend reinforced the reason students deck out

in purple each week and served as a wake-upcall to those who are just now realizing why.

Coach Pat Fitzgerald and our incredibly talented student athletes showed long ago thatthey are not like past teams, but to many thestigma remains. Students oen make jokes aboutour sports teams being bad, even when it’s nottrue. e sea of Ohio State fans at Saturday’sgame suggests that plenty of NU season ticketholders sold their seats to the opposing side,allowing chairs outside the student section tobleed red rather than purple. NU could go on towin the Big Ten Championship, but if studentsand alumni remain committed to believing ourprogram is subpar, our turnout and pride willcontinue to be just that. e team rarely com-plains publicly about low attendance at eachhome game, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’tlend it greater support.

Both the bowl victory and the immense

amount of national coverage have done wondersin uniting NU behind our players and fosteringthe spirited atmosphere present at other schoolswith huge athletic programs. We urge that sup-port to continue.e NU-Ohio State matchup is one that

students will remember fondly well aer gradu-ation. Even aer the disappointing loss — as theCats returned into the tunnel with their headsa little lower — students remained standing,cheering for what the team had accomplished.It would be easy to just take the loss and forgetabout the three home games le in the season. It

would be easy to return to the status quo, leavingthe stadium as halime begins with many seatsin the student section empty. at wasn’t thecase by any means on Saturday, and it shouldn’tbe moving forward. If you didn’t make it to thegame this weekend, there’s still time to throw onpurple and head out to Ryan Field.

Saturday night and early Sunday morning,social media was overowing with sentimentsfrom fans reecting on the game, some calling itthe proudest moment of their NU experience.

With a program like ours, there’s no reasonwhy we can’t bring the same overwhelming spiritto the rest of the season.


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McCormick graduate student discusses research at NU

Elham Beheshti, whose research interests liein human-computer interaction and computer-supported learning, spoke to me about why shechose NU and her research e orts on campus.

For you, what is a Ph.D.?Ph.D. is about gaining many di erent and

diverse set of skills, which helps the student toconduct a research from the start to the end andpush the boundaries of science and/or technol-ogy. ese skill sets may include technical skills,research skills and analyses skills alongside withthe skills in communicating with other research-ers and scholars and building a strong social

network in an attempt to pursue a fruitful careeraer receiving a Ph.D.

Was NU the only university at whichyou wanted to do a Ph.D.?

No. I applied for Ph.D. programs in

nanotechnology in a few universities in the US. I

chose NU from the ones that I got the admissionfrom, for many reasons. First o , NU has greatresearch groups and facilities in nanotechnology.e o er that I got was also better than my othero ers. Besides the university, living in Chicagowas another factor. And so I picked NU.

Tell us about your research at NU.My research interests center in the areas of

human-computer interaction and computer-supported learning. My current study involvesthe design and evaluation of an interactivelearning tool called “Spark” that enables learn-ers to interact with representations of electricalcircuits at multiple levels. I am currently usertesting and developing higher delity prototypesof the system.

Any specific reason to opt for thisresearch topic?

At Tangible Interaction Design and LearningLab, we are exploring the use of tangible interac-tion to create innovative learning experiences.And so, my project is one of the projects underthis umbrella. As my background is in electri-cal engineering, I studied several studies on

children’s understanding of basic concepts of

electricity and electrical circuits.ese studiesdemonstrate that novices of all ages commonly hold mental models of electrical concepts thatdiverge from the scientic models making itdicult to understand how a circuit works. So,I developed the idea of designing a multilevelsimulation environment that helps children bet-ter understand these concepts.

What is the most exciting phase ofthis research?

Honestly, all phases of this project are excit-ing to me. But, if I want to pick one, I would say the user testing part of this project. ...is is thepart that I get to see how people interact withwhat I’ve designed and if they like it or not, if they gain using the simulation or not. I am alsofascinated by obser ving how some issues withthe design are detected by users who test it.

What is one thing which you willnever forget about your Ph.D. andNU?

I think the greatest experience that I won’t ...forget about my Ph.D. is working in TIDAL labwith my adviser Professor Michael Horn and

also the opportunity of working with so many

great people in the HCI (human-computer-interaction) community. During the last threeyears, I learned so much from people that Iworked with, which is an invaluable experience.

Do you have any advice for thoselooking to pursue a Ph.D?

One thing that I can say is not to let yourself spend best ve or six years of your life on work-ing on something that you don’t like. In my opinion, when someone admires his/her ownwork, others would admire it too.

What’s next?I’d like to pursue a research-based career in

the areas of human-computer interaction andcomputer-supported learning.

What is the best way for students tocontact you?

[email protected]

Chetan Patil is a McCormick graduate student. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the

Editor to [email protected].

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