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Just over a month before she graduated from Northwestern, Emily Song (McCormick ’24) told her professor that Scott Simpson — a professional hired to help students manufacture projects in the Segal Design Institute shop — was “unfit” to work in a learning environment. Song had previously reported Simpson for his “disrespectful” behavior toward her, referring.
The remarkable story that inventor Alan Nelson shared last week at the 7th Annual Intellectual Property Awareness Summit held by CIPU at Northwestern University was revealing in many ways.
Segal Design Institute directors Greg Holderfield, Prof. Kim Hoffmann and Prof. Michael Peshkin announced new mechanisms for institute accountability and feedback Wednesday following reports of problematic behavior in the Segal workshop. The statement, which addresses Segal staff, students and faculty, came after the directors received “a number of communications regarding student concerns with the Segal.
When Helen von den Steinen, adjunct professor at the Segal Design Institute, first moved to the U.S. in 2016, she was in “complete shock.” Von den Steinen had left Germany, where she said sustainability has “been part of the DNA since the 60s.” U.S. sustainability was disappointing in comparison, she said. When she left a.