Awards & Honors

Kathleen Belew, Associate Professor of History, has been featured many times over in the news lately to comment on the rise of white nationalist extremism, and, specifically, Trump's meeting with white supremacist leader Nick Fuentes. Belew, author of Bring the War...

PBS will be airing a new documentary, "The Lie Detector," in their American Experience series on January 3 . The film draws extensively on Northwestern Professor of History Ken Alder's book, The Lie Detectors. Alder, the Milton H. Wilson Professor of...

Historian İpek Yosmaoğlu has been elected the next President of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association – the field’s flagship professional association. The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association is a private, non-political organization of scholars, students, and other persons interested in...

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 A. Ogot...

Northwestern researchers Vicky Kalogera, Wen-Fai Fong, and Charlie Kilpatrick were recently chosen as finalists to be part of a NASA-led team that will launch a research facility into space in 2028. The winning team will pilot a groundbreaking new mission named STAR-X and will receive $300 million...

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 or theoretical studies that have opened...

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 best-known...

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 students...

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...