Arts & Humanities

Professor Laura Brueck of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences will be honored with Northwestern’s 2024 Provost Award for Exemplary Service. Given annually by the Office of the Provost, the award recognizes full-time faculty members who provide outstanding service to the...

Jennifer Lackey 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...

Mark Alznauer received the best article award from the Journal of the History of Philosophy. His article was titled “Untrue Concepts in Hegel’s Logic” and published in the January 2023 issue. Alznauer is associate professor in the department of philosophy. He...

Northwestern University is building students’ data literacy while providing unique experiential learning opportunities to drive social good. Launched in September 2021 and powered by funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Metropolitan Chicago Data-Science Corps (MCDC) empowers undergraduate students from...

Jeffrey Masten was awarded the 34th Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize for a Distinguished Publication on Christopher Marlowe. The Hoffman Prize is a peer-judged, international competition administered by the King’s School, Canterbury, which Marlowe attended in the sixteenth century. It’s...

Aaron Naber of the department of mathematics at Northwestern University has been awarded the 2023 Fermat Prize for his groundbreaking work on Ricci limit spaces, in particular rectifiability, isometry group and co-dimension 4 conjecture. Naber is the Kenneth F. Burgess...

Weinberg College welcomes Associate Professor of Instruction Germán Campos-Muñoz to the Department of Classics! Where are you from? Where did you study? I am originally from Lima, Peru. I completed my undergraduate studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and then...

Northwestern astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong will receive the 2024 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. She is recognized for her leadership of foundational work that is greatly advancing our understanding of explosive astrophysical transients and...

Study shows a steep drop in arrests for violent crime among program participants Researchers from Northwestern University evaluated outcomes for the Chicago CRED (Create Real Economic Destiny) program and found that those who completed the full program were more than 73%...

Mila Kaut is a PhD student in the Department of History and a Mellon Cluster Fellow in Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern. Mila studies U.S. history and the intersections of race, gender,...