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Krista Thompson

Awards and Honors, Faculty April 21, 2023

Krista Thompson has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Krista Thompson has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Thompson is the Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art History and affiliated faculty member in …


Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

Awards and Honors, Faculty April 21, 2023

Mercouri Kanatzidis has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Mercouri Kanatzidis has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. He is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the department of chemistry …


Aldon Morris

Awards and Honors, Faculty April 20, 2023

Aldon Morris has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Aldon Morris has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Morris is the Leon Forrest Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Black Studies in Weinberg. His …


Shana Kelley

Awards and Honors, Faculty April 20, 2023

Shana Kelley has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Shana Kelley has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Kelley is the Neena B. Schwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering in Weinberg College, …


COVID-19 Research, Faculty, Research April 19, 2023

Political scientist James Druckman discusses takeaways of state-by-state polling during the pandemic

When COVID-19 struck in March 2020, Northwestern University political scientist James Druckman and a small group of social scientists from Harvard, Northeastern and Rutgers discussed navigating COVID’s impact on their work and lives. When California became the first state to …


Left to right: Xing Fan, Gerald Gabrielse, Benedict Sukra, Tom Myers

Faculty, Research April 18, 2023

A triumph for fundamental physics: With a more precise measurement of the electron’s magnetic moment, researchers unlock opportunity for physics discovery

For something so precise, so miniscule, this was big. Really big.

A new measurement of the electron magnetic moment from Board of Trustees Professor in Physics Gerald Gabrielse and his research group at Northwestern University’s Center for Fundamental Physics has …


David Ngene

Alumni and Students, Alumni Spotlight April 12, 2023

Weinberg College’s 2023 Convocation Speaker, David Ngene, Jr. ’08 champions blending diverse thought with creativity

Truth be told, David Ngene, Jr. ’08 never intended to become a liberal arts student.

Upon enrolling at Northwestern in 2003, Ngene, a first-generation college student from Houston, set his sights on a degree in mechanical engineering. He envisioned engineering, …


The Weber Arch at Northwestern

Alumni and Students April 12, 2023

Arch Scholars Student Spotlight: Martha Wondowassen

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Amy Stanley

Awards and Honors, Faculty April 11, 2023

Historian Amy Stanley awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship

Amy Stanley, the Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor of History at Northwestern, is being recognized with a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation recently announced.

Since its establishment in 1925, the Foundation aims to …


Nataly Martinez and her family

Alumni and Students April 11, 2023

First-generation American Nataly Martinez ’19 finds her dream career through Chicago Field Studies

“Reaching Your Dreams” series tells stories of Northwestern alums of Chicago Field Studies (CFS), an academic internship program that matches over 500 students every year with over 250 employer partners. CFS participants receive guidance on choosing internships based on their …


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