Institute for Policy Research graduate Leah Salditch (PhD, 2021) received the Natural Hazards Section Award for Graduate Research from the American Geophysical Union. Salditch earned PhD in earth and planetary sciences and a master’s in applied statistics from Northwestern in …
Professor Samuel Stupp, of the Department of Chemistry, will receive the 2022 American Chemical Society Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry.
The Hirschmann Award, established in 1988, recognizes outstanding research achievements in the chemistry, biochemistry, and biophysics of …
Two Northwestern postdoctoral fellows, Anna Yang and Luke Kelley, have been named 2021 Cottrell Scholars by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Cottrell Fellowships aim to support the careers of early-career scientists who were losing opportunities to move into independent …
English Professor Reginald Gibbons will receive the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award, the organization’s highest honor, to celebrate his lifetime of achievements.
Gibbons’ prolific writing career has included the publication of ten full-length poetry collections, a short story …
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ’11, ’13 has been named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow. These fellowships are awarded to individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.
Taylor is a historian and writer …
Professor Joel Mokyr, of the Department of Economics, was named a 2021 Citation Laureate™, for his studies of the history and culture of technological progress and its economic consequences.
Each year since 2002, analysts from the Institute for Scientific …
In March of 2020, the City of Evanston became the first U.S. municipality to agree to pay Black residents reparations. Black residents can receive up to $25,000 if they were affected by discriminatory housing policies and practices, which the city …
Professor Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, of the Department of Neurobiology, is the recipient of the 2021 One Mind Nick LeDeit Rising Star Research Award. One Mind is a mental health nonprofit that conducts brain research and aims to transform mental illness …
Two Weinberg College alumni have been awarded the American Council of Learned Societies’ Emerging Voices Fellowship. The fellowship was created in response to the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it aims to support early-career scholars who will …
Professor Ed Muir, of the Department of History, was elected as the new president of the American Historical Association. He is the first professor at Northwestern to receive this honor, and it is indicative of his high esteem as …