Shelby Blythe, professor of molecular biosciences in Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, was named a 2020 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Professor Blythe is one of 22 scholars selected to receive …
The study, “A Penny on the Dollar: Racial Inequalities in Wealth Among Households with Children,” by Professor Christine Percheski of the Department of Sociology and Christina Gibson-Davis of Duke University, was published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World…
Professor James Druckman conducted a survey through Northwestern in conjunction with Harvard, Northeastern, and Rutgers in determining the Americans’ trust in governmental institutions such as the police. This survey was administered before and after the emergence of protests against police …
Professor John Alba Cutler has been named a 2020-2021 Radcliffe Institute Fellow. This fellowship is based at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and supports 50 scholars each year. An extremely competitive program, the acceptance rate …
Professor Leslie M. Harris of the Department of History and Department of African American Studies has been named a 2020-2021 Radcliffe Institute Fellow. This fellowship is based at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and supports …
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 …