Jan
22
2026
TEACHxperts Empowering Students to Flourish: Teaching “AI, Race, and the Future of Humanity”
2:00 PM Online
Speakers: Professor and Chair of Black Studies, Sylvester Johnson
How is artificial intelligence (AI) shaping our soci...
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Events
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Jan
23
2026
Clinical Informatics Learning Roundtable (CI-LRT)
12:00 PM Online
The Clinical Informatics Learning Roundtable (CI-LRT) is a partnership with the Northwestern Clinical Informatics Fellow...
Jan
23
2026
Prompt Engineering for Northwestern Instructors
1:00 PM Online
Writing, iterating, and critiquing prompts to generative AI tools are critical skills needed to understand the limitatio...
Jan
29
2026
North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad - Open Competition
8:30 AM Evanston
The Northwestern University Linguistics Student Association (NULSA) will host the NACLO Open Competition, which is a con...
Jan
29
2026
Get to Know Copilot at Northwestern
1:00 PM Online
Learn about Northwestern’s authorized generative AI tool, Copilot. In this workshop you will learn about:
-Accessing an...
Feb
2
2026
"AI & The Future of News" - Featuring Emily Withrow, Larry Birnbaum, Nick Diakopoulos, & Jeremy Gilbert
12:00 PM Evanston
Join us for an in-person Distinguished Panel event featuring Emily Withrow (NY Times), Jeremy Gilbert, and Nick Diakopou...
Feb
3
2026
Watering Hole Seminar Series: Lisa Schechtman
4:30 PM Evanston
This Month: Global Water in a Disrupted World: Perspectives from a former USAID Strategist
Join Lisa Schechtman, former ...
Feb
4
2026
WED@NICO Winter Seminar Series returns on February 4th!
12:00 PM Evanston
The Wednesdsays@NICO speaker series will return for the winter quarter on February 4th, 2026, running through March 11th...
Feb
5
2026
"Generative AI for Molecules & Materials" - Featuring Julius Lucks, Chris Wolverton, Chris Schuh
12:00 PM Evanston
Join us for an in-person Distinguished Panel event featuring Julius Lucks, Chris Wolverton, moderated by Chris Schuh.
Ti...
Feb
5
2026
Get to Know Copilot at Northwestern (for Instructors)
1:00 PM Online
Learn about Northwestern’s authorized generative AI tool, Copilot. In this workshop you will learn about:
-Accessing an...
Feb
5
2026
Beyond the Play Button: AI Transformation in Audio Streaming
2:30 PM Evanston
What if AI truly understands your listening soul? This talk dives into the GenAI revolution since 2023 – from multimodal...
Feb
10
2026
"Big-Data Algorithms That Are Not Machine Learning" - Jeffrey Ullman
12:00 PM Chicago
Join us for an in-person Distinguished Speaker event featuring Jeffrey Ullman, a prominent figure in computer science wh...
Feb
11
2026
Wildcats in Water
11:30 AM Evanston
Wildcats in Water Student Seminar Series — Each month, students share their innovative water research in engaging flash ...
Feb
13
2026
Cognitive Science Fridays | Mind & Machine Collaboration : Di Hu
12:30 PM Evanston
Di Hu, Human Development and Social Policy
"Personalized Support for Adolescent Minds: A Memory-Enhanced AI Companion fo...
Feb
17
2026
Get to Know Copilot at Northwestern (for staff)
10:00 AM Online
Learn about Northwestern’s authorized generative AI tool, Copilot. In this workshop you will learn about:
-Accessing an...
Feb
17
2026
Googling for Data: Strategies & Resources (Online)
2:00 PM Online
Do you need to find statistics to support an argument? Or a dataset to analyze as part of a research project? Finding ...
Feb
17
2026
Dr. Mark Steyvers : Cognitive Science Speaker Series
4:00 PM Evanston
Title : Human–AI Collaboration: Performance, Uncertainty, and Human Preferences
Abstract :
This talk presents an overvi...
Feb
18
2026
SkAI Colloquium
11:00 AM Off-Campus
The SkAI Institute will host a colloquium featuring Berthy Feng, Postdoctoral Fellow at Schwarzman College of Computing ...
Feb
20
2026
Healthcare AI Forum
10:00 AM Online
Welcome to the Northwestern Medicine Healthcare AI Forum, where we dive into cutting-edge developments in the field of A...
Feb
26
2026
Operationalizing AI: Security, Cloud Architecture, and Data Protection
12:00 PM Online
As AI investment accelerates, data security and governance have never been more critical. In this webinar, Faisal Akkawi...
Feb
26
2026
Prompt Engineering for Northwestern Instructors
1:00 PM Online
Writing, iterating, and critiquing prompts to generative AI tools are critical skills needed to understand the limitatio...
Feb
26
2026
Googling for Data: Strategies & Resources (Online)
3:00 PM Online
Do you need to find statistics to support an argument? Or a dataset to analyze as part of a research project? Finding ...
Feb
27
2026
Clinical Informatics Learning Roundtable (CI-LRT)
12:00 PM Online
The Clinical Informatics Learning Roundtable (CI-LRT) is a partnership with the Northwestern Clinical Informatics Fellow...
Mar
3
2026
Watering Hole Seminar Series
4:30 PM Evanston
Each month, we invite water experts to share their innovative work in a concise 15-minute presentation, followed by refr...
Mar
5
2026
Using AI to Evaluate the Accessibility of Third Party Tools
10:00 AM Online
According to Northwestern’s Digital Accessibility Policy as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), all softw...
Mar
10
2026
Using AI to Help Write Alt Text for Complex Images
10:00 AM Online
All alt text for images should be based on the context of the image and what is being portrayed to the user. Writing app...
Mar
10
2026
Prompt Engineering for Northwestern Instructors
1:00 PM Online
Writing, iterating, and critiquing prompts to generative AI tools are critical skills needed to understand the limitatio...
Mar
11
2026
Wildcats in Water
11:30 AM Evanston
Wildcats in Water Student Seminar Series — Each month, students share their innovative water research in engaging flash ...
Mar
11
2026
"Fun with Fashion" - Larry Davis
12:00 PM Chicago
Join us for an in-person Distinguished Speaker event featuring Larry Davis, a leading figure in computer vision and arti...
Mar
13
2026
Cognitive Science Fridays | Mind & Machine Collaboration : Zhe-Chen Guo
12:30 PM Evanston
Zhe-Chen Guo, Linguisitics, Communicaiton Sciences & Disorders
"Consistency of Phoneme-Related Potentials to Naturalisti...
Mar
18
2026
SkAI Colloquium
11:00 AM Off-Campus
The SkAI Institute will host a colloquium featuring Yuanyuan Shi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical an...
Mar
27
2026
Clinical Informatics Learning Roundtable (CI-LRT)
12:00 PM Online
The Clinical Informatics Learning Roundtable (CI-LRT) is a partnership with the Northwestern Clinical Informatics Fellow...
Apr
2
2026
Get to Know Copilot at Northwestern (for Instructors)
10:00 AM Online
Learn about Northwestern’s authorized generative AI tool, Copilot. In this workshop you will learn about:
-Accessing an...
Apr
7
2026
Watering Hole Seminar Series
4:30 PM Evanston
Each month, we invite water experts to share their innovative work in a concise 15-minute presentation, followed by refr...
Apr
8
2026
Wildcats in Water
11:30 AM Evanston
Wildcats in Water Student Seminar Series — Each month, students share their innovative water research in engaging flash ...
Apr
10
2026
Cognitive Science Fridays | Mind & Machine Collaboration : Yi Chun Hung
12:30 PM Evanston
Yi Chun Hung, Computer Science
"When Color Becomes Threat: Mapping High-Dimensional Signals with Behavioral Manifolds in...
Apr
14
2026
Prompt Engineering for Northwestern Instructors
1:00 PM Online
Writing, iterating, and critiquing prompts to generative AI tools are critical skills needed to understand the limitatio...
Apr
15
2026
SkAI Colloquium
11:00 AM Off-Campus
The SkAI Institute will host a colloquium featuring Keith Bechtol, Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate ...
Apr
17
2026
Healthcare AI Forum
10:00 AM Online
Welcome to the Northwestern Medicine Healthcare AI Forum, where we dive into cutting-edge developments in the field of A...