Arts & Humanities

“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 guidance on...

Cynthia Nazarian, associate professor in the department of French and Italian, has been honored with the University Teaching Award. Nazarian will receive the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. As a specialist of Renaissance literature, Nazarian regularly teaches the period...

Four Weinberg College faculty at Northwestern are among the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows recently named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The faculty members are Mike Cloud, Chad Mirkin, Teri Odom, and Krista Thompson. This year, the foundation awarded 188 Guggenheim Fellowships...

Scholarship provides support for young researchers pursuing careers in natural sciences, math and engineering Two undergraduate researchers from Northwestern University have earned the 2024 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, an honor that supports students who intend to pursue careers in the natural sciences,...

Asian Pop-up Cinema at The Block, will present four films from April 3rd to April 11th, one for each culture represented by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Through the combined support of The Block, Buffett Institute for Global...

Commitment from alumni Steve and Tracy Cahillane will help transform the Jacobs Center into a hub for learning as well as student engagement Northwestern University Trustee Steven A. Cahillane ’87 and Tracy Tappan Cahillane ’88 (’17, ’19 P) have made a...

Northwestern has been named a Fulbright Top Producing Institution by the U.S. Department of State for the 20th consecutive year. Thirty Northwestern students and alumni received Fulbright awards for the 2023-2024 academic year, allowing them to teach, study and research...

"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 guidance...

Eun Hee Kim and Chin-Hung Chang have been named the 2024 recipients of the Alumnae of Northwestern University’s Award for Curriculum Innovation. Kim and Chang plan to enhance Korean and Chinese language learning with a conversational chatbot that will help students...

The most common conversational approaches taken by parents differed by race A new study led by psychology researchers at Northwestern University found 84% of Black parents and 76% of white parents had spoken to their 8– to 11-year-old-children about the Black...