Joel Mokyr wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Awards & Honors
Fulbright students: Students and alumni cross the globe to pursue graduate study, conduct research and teach English
Northwestern has been named a Fulbright Top Producing Institution by the U.S. Department of State for the 20th consecutive year. Thirty Northwestern students and alumni received Fulbright awards for the 2023-2024 academic year, allowing them to teach, study and research...
Northwestern researchers to study racial equity, STEM education, and school reform in Evanston
Northwestern University researchers received a five-year, $4.5M grant from the National Science Foundation to study racial equity, STEM education, and school reform in Evanston, Ill., a diverse suburb of Chicago. The project looks at the impact of the closure of a local elementary...
Eun Hee Kim and Chin-Hung Chang receive Alumnae Award for Curriculum Innovation
Eun Hee Kim and Chin-Hung Chang have been named the 2024 recipients of the Alumnae of Northwestern University’s Award for Curriculum Innovation. Kim and Chang plan to enhance Korean and Chinese language learning with a conversational chatbot that will help students...
Mathematician Ananth Shankar receives NSF CAREER award
Mathematician Ananth Shankar has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. Shankar’s research is in number theory and arithmetic geometry, focusing mainly on Shimura...
Laura Brueck honored for collaboration, mentorship and promotion of global intellectual engagement
Professor Laura Brueck of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences will be honored with Northwestern’s 2024 Provost Award for Exemplary Service. Given annually by the Office of the Provost, the award recognizes full-time faculty members who provide outstanding service to the...
Marcelo Vinces receives Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity
Marcelo Vinces has received the 2024 Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity. Given annually by Northwestern’s Office of the Provost, the award celebrates individuals or groups who work collectively to build a more diverse, inclusive, and...
Jennifer Lackey receives Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity
Jennifer Lackey has received the 2024 Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity. Given annually by Northwestern’s Office of the Provost, the award celebrates individuals or groups who work collectively to build a more diverse, inclusive, and...
Mark Alznauer receives the best article award from the Journal of the History of Philosophy
Mark Alznauer received the best article award from the Journal of the History of Philosophy. His article was titled “Untrue Concepts in Hegel’s Logic” and published in the January 2023 issue. Alznauer is associate professor in the department of philosophy. He...
Teri Odom receives the 2024 SPIE Mozi Award
Teri W. Odom, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, is the recipient of the 2024 SPIE Mozi Award for “significant contributions to the field of nanophotonics and to...
Jeffrey Masten awarded the 34th Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize for a Distinguished Publication on Christopher Marlowe
Jeffrey Masten was awarded the 34th Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize for a Distinguished Publication on Christopher Marlowe. The Hoffman Prize is a peer-judged, international competition administered by the King’s School, Canterbury, which Marlowe attended in the sixteenth century. It’s...