Awards & Honors

Patricia Beddows speaks of scuba diving with an undeniable enthusiasm. She smiles when detailing the joys of being underwater. Her eyes gleam when she talks about democratizing underwater scientific research. Her energy rises when discussing the “complex and challenging” natural...

Weinberg College faculty were named to the 2022 Highly Cited Researchers™ list, published by Clarivate Analytics. 6,938 researchers from 69 countries and regions were analyzed. The data covers papers published in science and social sciences journals over the decade from...

Kelly Wisecup, Professor of English, has been awarded the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize for her 2021 book, Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures. Wisecup is also Interim Director (2022-23) of the Alice Kaplan...

Ben Frommer will be assisting in the development of two museums abroad: the MEHRIN Moravian Jewish Museum in Brno, and a new Jewish museum in Prague. Frommer was appointed to the International Advisory Board of the project to establish a Moravian...

The King Faisal Foundation has awarded the 2023 King Faisal Prize in Medicine and Science to Northwestern University professor Chad A. Mirkin for his work in chemistry. The King Faisal Prize, established in 1979 by the King Faisal Foundation and...

Northwestern University is one of 104 schools that will receive a six-year Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) initiative grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The HHMI announcement notes that IE3 challenges U.S. colleges and universities to build capacity for student...

Susan J. Pearson, Professor of History at Northwestern, has been awarded the 2022 Book Award by the Order of the Coif Executive Committee, for her 2021 book The Birth Certificate: An American History. The Order of the Coif is the national...

Historian Kate Masur’s latest book Until Justice Be Done: American’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction has won the American Society for Legal History’s John Phillip Reid Book Prize. The John Phillip Reid Book Prize is presented...

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 to be there,”...

Visiting professor of Northwestern’s Environmental Policy and Culture program Wil Burns was recently featured on WBUR’s Here and Now podcast, where he discussed the implications of the United States’ newest climate bill. Prior to 2021, Burns was a Professor of Research...