Faculty Awards & Honors

Professor Aaron Naber, of the Department of Mathematics, was named a 2023 Simons Investigator in Mathematics. Naber is the Kenneth F. Burgess Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern, and is the second Northwestern professor ever to receive this honor. The Simons Investigators...

Recipients of the annual staff recognition awards at Weinberg College were honored at a luncheon hosted by Dean Adrian Randolph on May 4. The winners were selected by the Weinberg Staff Advisory Board from a remarkable pool of nominees. Below...

Teri W. Odom, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), according to the Academy’s announcement on May 2nd. Odom is an expert...

Timothy Earle, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), according to the Academy's announcement on May 2. Earle is an economic anthropologist specializing in the evolution of complex societies, prehistoric economies, and...

Professor Richard B. Silverman, of the Department of Chemistry, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), according to the Academy's announcement on May 2nd. Silverman is the Patrick G. Ryan/Aon Professor at Northwestern. Silverman's research is focused primarily on...

Laurisa Sastoque, a senior in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has received a 2023 Gates Cambridge Scholarship. This award recognizes Sastoque and others in her cohort as not only accomplished academics, but also as emerging leaders who will...

Ben Gorvine is being honored with the 2023 University Teaching Award. The annual recognition is given to professors who demonstrate excellence and innovation in undergraduate teaching. Gorvine is a professor of instruction in the department of psychology in the Weinberg...

Reuel Rogers is being honored with the 2023 University Teaching Award. The annual recognition is given to professors who demonstrate excellence and innovation in undergraduate teaching. Rogers is an associate professor in the department of political science in the Weinberg...

Aaron Peterson is being honored with the 2023 University Teaching Award. Peterson is an associate professor of instruction in the department of mathematics in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University...

Daniel Immerwahr is being honored with the 2023 University Teaching Award. The annual recognition is given to professors who demonstrate excellence and innovation in undergraduate teaching. Immerwahr is the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities in the department of history...