Faculty Awards & Honors

Northwestern University astrophysicist Adam Miller has received a 2025 Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), the United States’ first foundation wholly dedicated to science. Miller is among a diverse group of 16 early career scholars in chemistry, physics...

Jorge Coronado, Director of Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Professor of Andean and Latin American Literatures, has been awarded a 2025 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society (APS). Founded in 1743, the APS is the oldest learned...

Nobel laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart, a Board of Trustees Professor at Northwestern University, died Dec. 30. He was 82. Stoddart, a pioneer in the fields of nanoscience and organic chemistry, was an outsized figure on the Evanston campus and on campuses...

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. The foundation named Strom and...

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 of...

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 Northwestern faculty member whose...

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...

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 their academic...

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 given to a scientist in...

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 250...