Joel Mokyr wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Awards & Honors
Shana Kelley named 2023 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
Shana Kelley has been named 2023 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Kelley is the Neena B. Schwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the McCormick School of Engineering, professor of biochemistry and molecular...
Scholar-activist Nia Robles Del Pino named 2024 Global Rhodes Scholar
As the first Argentinian to receive the honor, Northwestern senior will study mathematical physics at Oxford Northwestern University student Nia Robles Del Pino has been named a 2024 Global Rhodes Scholar — one of only two students selected worldwide among candidates...
Aaron Naber awarded the prestigious 2023 Fermat Prize
Aaron Naber of the department of mathematics at Northwestern University has been awarded the 2023 Fermat Prize for his groundbreaking work on Ricci limit spaces, in particular rectifiability, isometry group and co-dimension 4 conjecture. Naber is the Kenneth F. Burgess...
Astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong will receive the 2024 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy
Northwestern astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong will receive the 2024 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. She is recognized for her leadership of foundational work that is greatly advancing our understanding of explosive astrophysical transients and...
Shae Murphy receives Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship
Pre-med student looks to better understand women’s healthcare in the U.S. and how to make it better Shae Murphy, a third-year student in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a recipient of the prestigious Obama-Chesky Scholarship for...
Chemist and engineer Dayne Swearer receives Packard Fellowship
Award honors the nation’s most innovative, early-career scientists Northwestern University chemist and engineer Dayne F. Swearer has received a 2023 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The prestigious fellowship includes an unrestricted grant of $875,000 over...
Dayna Patterson is the first postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University to receive the prestigious HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellowship
Dayna Patterson was selected as a 2023 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Hanna H. Gray Fellow and is the first postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University to receive this prestigious fellowship. The HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program provides each fellow...
Todd Gingrich receives prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Todd Gingrich 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.Gingrich is an assistant professor of chemistry in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and...
Ben Antieau is a Principal Investigator in a new $8 million Simons Collaboration on Perfection in Algebra, Geometry and Topology
Northwestern's Ben Antieau is a Principal Investigator on a major new $8 million Simons Collaboration on Perfection in Algebra, Geometry and Topology. This is a collaboration across multiple institutions, with Northwestern’s portion of the grant being $650,000. Antieau is a...
Ted Sargent named co-executive director of Trienens Institute
Cross-field expert to help further Northwestern sustainability research Northwestern University has named Ted Sargent co-executive director of the Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy (formerly ISEN). Effective immediately, Sargent joins current executive director Michael Wasielewski, the Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry, in overseeing...