If you’ve ever experienced a dream while knowing that you were dreaming, you’ve had a lucid dream. As interest has grown in optimizing sleep for self-improvement and better health, so, too, has interest in lucid dreaming, which early evidence has …
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Northwestern University astrophysicist Allison Strom has received a 2024 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The prestigious fellowship includes an unrestricted grant of $875,000 over five years to pursue innovative and experimental research.
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Rachel Jamison Webster‘s book Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family (Henry Holt, March 2023)—a book of creative nonfiction that explores ancestry, race, gender, and justice in American history – was chosen as a Best Book …
Award honors tenured faculty for research excellence
Northwestern University professor Rebecca Zorach is a recipient of the 19th annual Dorothy Ann and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship Award.
The Ver Steeg Fellowship supports the research of a tenured …
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 …
Todd Gingrich was awarded a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Gingrich is assistant professor in the department of chemistry at Northwestern University.
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation award recipients are faculty who, within the first five years of …
Chemist Mercouri Kanatzidis and mathematician Aaron Naber, faculty members in Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.
Membership in the academy is one of the highest honors
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Two Weinberg College faculty members from Northwestern University have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
Bruce Carruthers and Suzan van der Lee are among the …
Neil Kelleher has been honored with the 2024 Christian B. Anfinsen Award from the Protein Society.
The Anfinsen award recognizes technological achievement or significant methodological advances in the field of protein science. and in Neil’s case, specifically his seminal …
Northwestern University professor Ann Bradlow has been selected as 2023 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general scientific society in the world.
The 2023 class of AAAS Fellows includes 502 scientists, engineers and …