Joel Mokyr wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Awards & Honors
Professor kihana miraya ross awarded Spencer Foundation “Large Grant” for historical and ethnographic study of a Black community’s struggle for educational justice
Professor kihana miraya ross, of the Department of African American Studies, has been awarded the Spencer Foundation Large Grant for her research project, "Wrestling with reparations: A historical and ethnographic study of a Black community's struggle for educational justice." The City...
Professor Magdalena Osburn awarded an Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation
Professor Magdalena Osburn of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has been awarded an Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most...
Professor Dyan Elliott receives research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Dyan Elliott, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and professor of history, has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The National Endowment for the Humanities promotes excellence in the humanities and works to...
Professor Jennifer Lackey of the Department of Philosophy named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow
Jennifer Lackey, the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy was named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. The award will help support Lackey’s next book project, ‘Criminal Testimonial Injustice,’ which examines how testimonies are extracted and then used in the criminal legal...
Professor Mesmin Destin of the Department of Psychology named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow
Professor Mesmin Destin of the Department of Psychology and the School of Education and Social Policy was named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. With the fellowship, Destin will explore how communities and institutions can leverage multiple social forces and resources to support...
Professor Vicky Kalogera of the Department of Physics and Astronomy named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow
Vicky Kalogera, the Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) was named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. The Guggenheim Fellowship will help support...
Professor John A. Rogers named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow
Professor John A. Rogers was named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. Rogers is a professor of Chemistry and the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery at the McCormick School of Engineering and...
Two-time U.S. Poet Laureate, Professor Trethewey, receives Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for “Memorial Drive”
Natasha Trethewey, Weinberg Board of Trustees Professor of English and renowned poet, received the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her nonfiction work Memorial Drive. Trethewey has previously been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities, 2020...
Professor Amy Rosenzweig receives the Hans Neurath Award from The Protein Society
Amy Rosenzweig, the Weinberg Family Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences and Professor of Molecular Biosciences and Chemistry, has received the Hans Neurath Award from The Protein Society. This award recognizes contributions of exceptional merit to basic protein research. Rosenzweig was recognized, in...
Professor Wen-fai Fong awarded an Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation
Professor Wen-fai Fong of the Department of Physics and Astronomy has been awarded an Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious...