Amy Stanley, Professor of History at Northwestern, has won Taiwan’s 2022 OpenBook Award for her book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World.
“It’s the story of a rebellious, discontented woman who sacrificed everything …
David Schoenbrun, Professor of History at Northwestern, has been awarded the 2022 Bethwell A. Ogot Prize by the African Studies Association (ASA) for his book, The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930.
The Bethwell …
Professor Joseph T. Hupp recently received the Allen J. Bard Award from the Electrochemical Society (ECS). According to the ECS website, the recipient is recognized for “paradigm-shifting contributions in the fields of electrochemical science and recognized for exceptionally creative experimental …
Northwestern University professor Samuel I. Stupp has received the 2022 Von Hippel Award, the highest honor awarded by the Materials Research Society (MRS). The prize recognizes “brilliance and originality of intellect, combined with vision that transcends the boundaries of conventional …
Northwestern University student Irena Petryk has been named a 2023 Rhodes Scholar. Petryk is majoring in economics and international studies, and interested in U.S. foreign policy and strengthening international commitments on economic development.
The Rhodes Scholarships, the oldest and perhaps …
Congratulations to the 2021-2022 Faculty and Administrator Honorees at Weinberg College. The Associated Student Government (ASG) collects nominations for the annual Faculty & Administrator Honor Roll from the Northwestern University undergraduate student body. In the past year, over 100 …
Professor Chad Mirkin received the 2022 Faraday Medal from The United Kingdom Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). According to the IET’s official statement, Mirkin was honored “for inventing and developing many of the tools, techniques, and materials that have …
Anna Grassellino, a senior scientist at Fermilab and adjunct professor of physics and astronomy in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences was recently awarded the 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.
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History Professor Kate Masur’s book Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction has won the American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Prize as the best book on American law and society, broadly defined.
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Bryna Kra, the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University, was named a 2023 Association for Women in Mathematics Fellow “For her vision and work creating programs to support women in mathematics, especially GROW (Graduate Research Opportunities …