Joel Mokyr wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Awards & Honors
Yosi Kratish awarded 2020-2021 McBride Postdoctoral Trainee Award
Yosi Kratish is a postdoctoral trainee in the Department of Chemistry, as well as a member of the Tobin Marks Group. Kratish was awarded the 2020-2021 McBride Postdoctoral Trainee Award for the positive influence he brought to his lab’s environment....
Professor Tiffany Schmidt awarded Ver Steeg Award
Tiffany Schmidt, professor of neurobiology, was awarded the 2020–21 Ver Steeg Award from The Graduate School. Named for Clarence Ver Steeg, PhD, former Northwestern University Professor in History and Dean of The Graduate School from 1975 to 1986, this award annually...
Professor Mary Pattillo elected to American Academy of Political and Social Science
Mary Pattillo, the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of African American Studies, will be inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS). Pattillo is one of five distinguished scholars that...
Mathematics PhD candidates win the The NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology’s “Great Math Challenge in Biology Contest”
The Great Math Challenge in Biology Contest, sponsored by the NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, the Department of Molecular Biosciences, and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, asked contestants to take a real-world problem in biology and propose a specific...
Professor Julia Kalow named a 2021 Sloan Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Professor Julia Kalow of the Department of Chemistry is named a 2021 Sloan Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Research Fellowship is described below on the Sloan Foundation website: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation congratulates the winners of the...
Professors Xiumin Du and Ilya Khayutin named 2021 Sloan Fellows of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Professors Xiumin Du and Ilya Khayutin of the Department of Mathematics have been named 2021 Sloan Fellows of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Research Fellowship is described below on the Sloan Foundation website: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation congratulates the winners...
Professor Patricia Marechal awarded Provost Faculty Grant
Professor Patricia Marechal, of the Department of Classics and Department of Philosophy, has been awarded the Provost Faculty Grant for Research in Humanities, Social Sciences and the Arts for her project. “Labors Not Lost. Midwifes, Craftswomen, and Sages: Recovering the Voices...
Professor Sarah Maza awarded the William Koren, Jr. Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies
Sarah Maza, the Jane Long Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of History, recently received the William Koren, Jr. Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies. This prize is awarded to the most outstanding article on any period...
Laura Larocca, PhD candidate in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, named a Presidential Fellow by Northwestern University
Laura Larocca is a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and was recently named a Presidential Fellow, the most prestigious fellowship awarded to graduate students by Northwestern University. Larocca received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from...
Making sense of a world in flux: the Fulbright Fellowship during a global pandemic
For many, receiving the Fulbright Fellowship is a chance to travel the world, be immersed in a new culture, and advance in a specified field. During a global pandemic, however, the path for Fulbrighters remained uncertain. Lois Biggs ’20 found out...