Professor Magdalena Osburn of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has been awarded an Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science …
Dyan Elliott, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and professor of history, has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The National Endowment for the Humanities promotes excellence in the …
Jennifer Lackey, the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy was named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow.
The award will help support Lackey’s next book project, ‘Criminal Testimonial Injustice,’ which examines how testimonies are extracted and then used in the …
Professor Mesmin Destin of the Department of Psychology and the School of Education and Social Policy was named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow.
With the fellowship, Destin will explore how communities and institutions can leverage multiple social forces and resources …
Vicky Kalogera, the Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) was named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow.
The Guggenheim Fellowship will …
Professor John A. Rogers was named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. Rogers is a professor of Chemistry and the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery at the McCormick School of …
“Reaching Your Dream” series tells stories of Northwestern alums who found their dream careers thanks to Chicago Field Studies (CFS), an academic internship program that matches over 500 students every year with over 250 employer partners. CFS participants receive …
The study, “Robustness and plasticity in Drosophila heat avoidance,” was published in the journal of Nature Communications on April 6, 2021. This research finds that fruit flies may be better drivers than autonomous cars. This study is timely, …
The study, “Asymmetry underlies stability in power grids,” was published in the journal Nature Communications on March 5, 2021. This study, supported by Northwestern University’s Finite Earth Initiative, reveals that there are some benefits to diversity in …
Natasha Trethewey, Weinberg Board of Trustees Professor of English and renowned poet, received the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her nonfiction work Memorial Drive.
Trethewey has previously been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Heinz Award for Arts …