Awards & Honors

Professor Thomas McDade has received a Manulife CIFAR Population Health & Well-being Grant for COVID-19-related population health projects. This program funds six interdisciplinary project team focused on pushing traditional research boundaries and offering new insight into how the pandemic will...

Professor Katherine Amato has received a Manulife CIFAR Population Health & Well-being Grant for COVID-19-related population health projects. This program funds six interdisciplinary project team focused on pushing traditional research boundaries and offering new insight into how the pandemic will...

Teri Odom, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry and Department of Chemistry chair in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has received the 2020 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry. This prestigious honor is given...

Shelby Blythe, professor of molecular biosciences in Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, was named a 2020 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Professor Blythe is one of 22 scholars selected to receive $300,000 over the...

Professor John Alba Cutler has been named a 2020-2021 Radcliffe Institute Fellow. This fellowship is based at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and supports 50 scholars each year. An extremely competitive program, the acceptance rate for...

Professor Leslie M. Harris of the Department of History and Department of African American Studies has been named a 2020-2021 Radcliffe Institute Fellow. This fellowship is based at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and supports 50...

Brendan Fernandes, artist-in-residence and professor at Northwestern University, was nominated and selected to receive the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. This award is given every two years by a jury of professionals in the art sector. Fernandes and other recipients were...

Professor Dyan Elliott, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History, was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. With the fellowship, Elliott will work on her project "The Quick and the Dead: The Medieval Church and the Exhumation of Christians."...

Professor Héctor Carrillo of the Department of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies Program was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. With the fellowship, Carrillo will explore the "sociology of genealogy." He will study the sociotechnical aspects of amateur genealogy and the...

Weinberg College neurobiologist Catherine Woolley has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine – an honor that Woolley says is a credit to the importance of fundamental research. Woolley, one of four Northwestern faculty members elected to the academy this year,...