Joel Mokyr wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Awards & Honors
Teri Odom named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Teri W. Odom, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, has been selected as 2022 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general scientific society...
Dyan Elliott’s “The Corrupter of Boys” wins Medieval Academy of America’s Haskins Medal
Dyan Elliott, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and professor of history, has won the Medieval Academy of America’s Haskins Medal for her 2020 book, The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy. The Haskins Medal is awarded annually...
Linda Teplin named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Linda Teplin, affiliated faculty in the department of sociology, has been selected as 2022 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general scientific society in the world. Teplin is vice chair for research in the Department of...
Three Weinberg undergraduates recognized with Fletcher Awards
Three undergraduate students in Weinberg College have been presented with Fletcher Awards from Northwestern’s Office of Undergraduate Research. Elizabeth Dudley ’24, Elena Housteau ’24, and Sophia Huang ’25 each received a $250 prize, funded by the Fletcher Family Foundation, for outstanding work in research. For...
Ed Muir begins term as President of American Historical Association
Edward Muir, of the Department of History and Department of French and Italian, has begun his term as the 139th president of the American Historical Association, the flagship organization for historians in the United States. Muir is the Clarence L. Ver...
Professor Daniel Horton receives prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Geologist Daniel Horton has received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. Horton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences...
Bryna Kra elected a Foreign Correspondent of the Chilean Academy of Sciences
Bryna Kra, the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University, has been elected a Foreign Correspondent of La Academia Chilena de Ciencias, the Chilean Academy of Sciences. La Academia Chilena de Ciencias is one of six schools that constitute the...
Professors Karen Alter and Leslie Harris honored with the Provost Award for Exemplary Service for advocacy for women faculty
Karen Alter, the Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations and professor of political science, and Leslie Harris, professor of history, are faculty members at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and co-chairs of the Organization of Women Faculty (OWF). They are...
Laura Hein honored with the Provost Award for Exemplary Service
Laura Hein will be honored with this year's Provost Award for Exemplary Service. She is the Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of History at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Given annually by Northwestern’s Office of the Provost, the award...
Denise Bouras named a 2023 recipient of the The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s Award for Curriculum Innovation
Denise Bouras has been named a 2023 recipient of the The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s Award for Curriculum Innovation. Bouras is an associate professor of instruction in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Jeremy...