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 …
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 …
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 …
The study “Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Housing and Mortgage Lending Markets: A Quantitative Review of Trends, 1976-2016” examined how discrimination in housing and mortgage lending against blacks, Latinos and Asians has changed over the last 40 years by performing …
A recent gift to Northwestern will create a new endowed chair in the Department of Mathematics — the Madan Lal Puri Professorship.
The chair will be named for Madan Lal Puri, the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished …
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 …
Sociology Professor Lincoln Quillian conducted a study on racial discrimination of labor markets in various countries. In the nine countries Quillian and his colleagues examined, they found evidence of hiring discrimination against non-white populations. The study, published in the journal …
Professor Onnie Rogers of the Department of Psychology is the author of a study that analyzed the ways children’s gender narratives reinforce or disrupt gender inequality. “I’m Kind of a Feminist”: Using Master Narratives to Analyze Gender Identity in Middle …
Sherwin K. Bryant, professor in the Departments of African American Studies and History, discusses his research on the Black Pacific and Afro-Andes in an interview for the African American Intellectual History Society’s Black Perspectives.
In the interview, …
Amy Rosenzweig, the Weinberg Family Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences and Professor of Molecular Biosciences and of Chemistry, has been elected to National Academy of Sciences.
Rosenzweig is a leader in the fields of bioinorganic chemistry and …