Awards & Honors

Nobel laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart, a Board of Trustees Professor at Northwestern University, died Dec. 30. He was 82. Stoddart, a pioneer in the fields of nanoscience and organic chemistry, was an outsized figure on the Evanston campus and on campuses...

‘I love using my astrophotography to emphasize human connection’ In his photography, graduate student Imran Sultan must overcome several obstacles: subjects that only appear in the middle of the night, the obscuring haze of Chicago’s light pollution and distances that reach thousands of...

If you’ve ever experienced a dream while knowing that you were dreaming, you’ve had a lucid dream. As interest has grown in optimizing sleep for self-improvement and better health, so, too, has interest in lucid dreaming, which early evidence has...

Northwestern University astrophysicist Allison Strom has received a 2024 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The prestigious fellowship includes an unrestricted grant of $875,000 over five years to pursue innovative and experimental research. The foundation named Strom and...

Rachel Jamison Webster's book Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family (Henry Holt, March 2023)—a book of creative nonfiction that explores ancestry, race, gender, and justice in American history - was chosen as a Best Book of...

The innovative Ask a Wildcat tool for students has won the Silver Circle of Excellence award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in the Engagement in the Volunteer Engagement category. This accolade underscores the university's commitment to fostering robust student-alumni...

Milwaukee native plans to pursue a career as a gravitational wave physicist Theoretical physicist and Northwestern University alumnus Andrew Laeuger ’23 has been named a 2024 Hertz Fellow by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. Laeuger, now at the California Institute of...

Award honors tenured faculty for research excellence Northwestern University professor Rebecca Zorach is a recipient of the 19th annual Dorothy Ann and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship Award. The Ver Steeg Fellowship supports the research of a tenured Northwestern faculty member whose...

arts &Program provides $35,000 for graduate studies in the arts, humanities and social sciences Abhi Nimmagadda, a third-year student at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a $35,000 Beinecke Scholarship to pursue graduate studies in South Asian Studies. He is the...

Cynthia Nazarian, associate professor in the department of French and Italian, has been honored with the University Teaching Award. Nazarian will receive the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. As a specialist of Renaissance literature, Nazarian regularly teaches the period...