Faculty Awards & Honors

Sociologist has applied network science to study crime, violence and policing Sociologist Andrew Papachristos will become Northwestern University’s new director of the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) and the John G. Searle Professor of Sociology, effective Sept. 1. is the PapachristosJohn...

He is one of the world’s leading experts in the economics of education Kirabo “Bo” Jackson, the Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy in Northwestern University's Department of Economics and at the School of Education and Social Policy (SESP),...

Adia Benton was awarded the Anthropology in Media Award (AIME) from the American Anthropological Association. Benton is an associate professor of Anthropology and African Studies at Northwestern University, where she is affiliated with the Science in Human Culture Program. She is the...

Curt Horvath has been nominated as the President-Elect of the International Cytokine and Interferon Society (ICIS). Horvath is professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. "I was privileged to be nominated for the President-Elect of the ICIS, and I am humbled...

After two months of tightly guarding news that she had earned a research-propelling grant, Julia Kalow’s secret is out. On August 4, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Kalow as one of its 2023 Early Career Research Program award winners. Kalow,...

Larry Hedges, Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Education and Social Policy, has been selected as the winner of the World Cultural Council 2023 José Vasconcelos World Award of Education. The Council described Hedges' development of statistical methods for meta-analysis...

Mercouri Kanatzidis, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the 2023 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry for scientific contributions that have ushered in "a new era in solar energy...

The Alumnae of Northwestern University recently awarded 2023-2024 Academic Enrichment Grant funding to three Weinberg College faculty members. They include: $6,784 -- “New Black Music in Chicago: A Series of Artist Panels, Masterclasses and Performance,” proposed by Nitasha Sharma, assistant professor of...

Each year, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Provost recognizes members of the College's tenure-line and teaching-track faculty for excellence in teaching. Weinberg College in addition recognizes the contributions of outstanding graduate student teachers...

Professor Jennifer Lackey has been awarded the 2023 Horace Mann Medal from Brown Graduate School, according to their recent announcement. Lackey is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern. The Horace Mann Medal is given annually to a...