Faculty Awards & Honors

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...

Teri W. Odom, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, is the recipient of the 2024 SPIE Mozi Award for “significant contributions to the field of nanophotonics and to...

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...

Shana Kelley has been named 2023 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Kelley is the Neena B. Schwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the McCormick School of Engineering, professor of biochemistry and molecular...

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...

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...

Award honors the nation’s most innovative, early-career scientists Northwestern University chemist and engineer Dayne F. Swearer has received a 2023 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The prestigious fellowship includes an unrestricted grant of $875,000 over...

Dayna Patterson was selected as a 2023 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Hanna H. Gray Fellow and is the first postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University to receive this prestigious fellowship. The HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program provides each fellow...

Todd Gingrich 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.Gingrich is an assistant professor of chemistry in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and...

Northwestern's Ben Antieau is a Principal Investigator on a major new $8 million Simons Collaboration on Perfection in Algebra, Geometry and Topology.  This is a collaboration across multiple institutions, with Northwestern’s portion of the grant being $650,000. Antieau is a...