David Schoenbrun, Professor of History at Northwestern, has been awarded the 2022 Bethwell A. Ogot Prize by the African Studies Association (ASA) for his book, The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930.
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Professor Joseph T. Hupp recently received the Allen J. Bard Award from the Electrochemical Society (ECS). According to the ECS website, the recipient is recognized for “paradigm-shifting contributions in the fields of electrochemical science and recognized for exceptionally creative experimental …
Northwestern University professor Samuel I. Stupp has received the 2022 Von Hippel Award, the highest honor awarded by the Materials Research Society (MRS). The prize recognizes “brilliance and originality of intellect, combined with vision that transcends the boundaries of conventional …
Professor Chad Mirkin received the 2022 Faraday Medal from The United Kingdom Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). According to the IET’s official statement, Mirkin was honored “for inventing and developing many of the tools, techniques, and materials that have …
Anna Grassellino, a senior scientist at Fermilab and adjunct professor of physics and astronomy in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences was recently awarded the 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.
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History Professor Kate Masur’s book Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction has won the American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Prize as the best book on American law and society, broadly defined.
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Bryna Kra, the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University, was named a 2023 Association for Women in Mathematics Fellow “For her vision and work creating programs to support women in mathematics, especially GROW (Graduate Research Opportunities …
Caroline Kent, Assistant Professor in Weinberg College’s Department of Art, Theory, and Practice, was recently awarded The Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize by The Studio Museum in Harlem.
According to The Studio Museum in Harlem, “The Wein Prize …
Adilson Motter, the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics and Astronomy, was awarded the Senior Scientific Award from the Complex Systems Society (CSS).
Since 2004, CSS has worked to advance complex systems research pure and applied, …
A new $2.5 million Research Training Grant from the National Science Foundation promises to expand research, enliven student interest, and elevate Northwestern University’s standing in the fast-charging field of dynamics.
Spread over five years, the grant aims to increase the …