Marcelo Vinces has received the 2024 Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity.
Given annually by Northwestern’s Office of the Provost, the award celebrates individuals or groups who work collectively to build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable climate on campus and enhance diversity across the spectrum, including race, gender, religion, socioeconomic status, age, and political affiliation.
Vinces will be honored at a reception later this winter. The recognition comes with a $5,000 award.
Marcelo Vinces is an assistant professor of instruction in Molecular Biosciences and a college adviser in Weinberg. He is being recognized for his dedicated and expansive work to promote equity and inclusion for students across the college.
Vinces not only supports his own advisees and has increased the capacity of the entire advising office to foster inclusion, but he also works with various offices and organizations across campus, including promoting underrepresented students in STEM.
He has devoted himself to fostering inclusion for all students, most notably including first-generation, lower-income, DACA, LGBTQ, and Latinx students, through his mentorship, participation in public discussion forums, committee work and service as faculty advisor to Out in Stem and the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.