Awards & Honors

Todd Gingrich was awarded a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Gingrich is assistant professor in the department of chemistry at Northwestern University. The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation award recipients are faculty who, within the first five years of their academic...

Chemist Mercouri Kanatzidis and mathematician Aaron Naber, faculty members in Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Membership in the academy is one of the highest honors given to a scientist in...

Two Weinberg College faculty members from Northwestern University have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Bruce Carruthers and Suzan van der Lee are among the 250...

Neil Kelleher has been honored with the 2024 Christian B. Anfinsen Award from the Protein Society. The Anfinsen award recognizes technological achievement or significant methodological advances in the field of protein science. and in Neil's case, specifically his seminal contributions to...

Northwestern University professor Ann Bradlow has been selected as 2023 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general scientific society in the world. The 2023 class of AAAS Fellows includes 502 scientists, engineers and innovators...

One of 30 students nationwide to be honored for potential to make significant contributions to U.S. society or culture Minjung Kim, a graduate student in the department of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the...

Four Weinberg College faculty at Northwestern are among the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows recently named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The faculty members are Mike Cloud, Chad Mirkin, Teri Odom, and Krista Thompson. This year, the foundation awarded 188 Guggenheim Fellowships...

Scholarship provides support for young researchers pursuing careers in natural sciences, math and engineering Two undergraduate researchers from Northwestern University have earned the 2024 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, an honor that supports students who intend to pursue careers in the natural sciences,...

Economist will use the grant to support his research on game theory Economist Harry Pei has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Pei is an assistant professor of economics at the Weinberg College...

Scholar of European and global history has served as interim director since January, launching several new programs for faculty and students Deborah Cohen, the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has been named...