Faculty Awards & Honors

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 contributions to...

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 innovators...

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...

Economist will use the grant to support his research on game theory Economist Harry Pei has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Pei is an assistant professor of economics at the Weinberg College...

Scholar of European and global history has served as interim director since January, launching several new programs for faculty and students Deborah Cohen, the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has been named...

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...

Mathematician Ananth Shankar has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. Shankar’s research is in number theory and arithmetic geometry, focusing mainly on Shimura...

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...

Marcelo Vinces 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...

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...