Features
Rebecca Chen
With the rise of mass shootings and horrifically incomprehensible crimes in recent years that have burdened the hearts of many students today, whether it be at Michigan State University, or in a closer case, Highland Park in Illinois, the question that we often ask is “why?” Forensic psychology puts the brain on trial, using a scientific approach in answering this question.
Dr. Robert Hanlon, a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and co-director of forensic psychology at Northwestern Medicine, speaks about his work on the interaction between neurocognition, emotion processing, personality traits, and socioecological factors in the genesis of violent behavior, raising ethical questions that pave the way for a jurisprudence and legal theory that is more biologically informed.
Ben Kim
Dr. Andrew Talle is an Associate Professor of Musicology at the Bienen School of Music of Northwestern University (N.U.). In 1995, he earned a B.M. in cello performance and a B.A./M.A. in linguistics from N.U., and went on to acquire a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University. Dr. Talle’s research interests cover musical culture at the time of Johann Sebastian Bach. Fluent in German, he has published articles in German musicological journals as well as his 2017 book Beyond Bach: Music and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century. Dr. Talle’s current projects include a monograph about Bach’s music for solo violin and solo cello and a collection of accounts of the city of Leipzig written by eighteenth-century travelers.
Stephanie Kim
Angeli Mittal
Dr. Benjamin Bryner is an assistant professor of surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as Feinberg), as well as an adult cardiac surgeon at the Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute. He also serves as the institute’s associate director of heart transplantation and mechanical support.
Dr. Esther Vorovich is an associate professor medicine in cardiology at Feinberg, as well as the medical director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Program and also works at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute. She routinely works as a heart failure transplant cardiologist, treating patients with malfunctioning hearts.
As an aspiring physician-scientist interested in the intersection between medicine and engineering, I spoke to Dr. Bryner and Dr. Vorovich on the technologies utilized in resuscitating patients with heart failure, connecting a mechanic’s workshop to a physician’s clinic.