Past Weinberg College News

Honors and Achievements

Biologist Richard Morimoto has received the Commandeur de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in recognition of his work in expanding Franco-American cooperation in the sciences.

Postdoctoral fellow Diana Posadas has been named a Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences.

Doctoral student Chris Shirley has won a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for his study, Reading by Hand: Manuscript Poetry and Readerly Identities in Renaissance England.

Doctoral student Jade Werner has been named a 2013 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for her dissertation, The Gospel and the Globe: Missionary Enterprises and the Cosmopolitan Imagination, 1795-1910.

Jacqueline Stevens, a professor of political science and director of the Deportation Clinic at the Buffett Center on International and Comparative Studies, has been named a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow.

The Global Health Studies program has won the 2013 Senator Paul Simon International Spotlight Award.

Jacob Lassner, a professor emeritus of history, has been awarded the Franz Rosenthal Prize in Islamics & Semitics by the American Oriental Society.

Earth & Planetary Sciences Professor Emile Okal has been named the 2013 recipient of the Sergey Soloviev Medal by the European Geosciences Union. Okal was cited for his “seminal contributions to the understanding of the physics of tsunamis and for establishing new methods of tsunami mitigation."

Xinwen Zhu has been awarded the Centennial Fellowship of the American Mathematical Society.

Douglas Medin, a professor of cognitive psychology, has received the William James Lifetime Achievement Award for Basic Research from the Association for Psychological Science.

Seth Stein, the William Deering Professor of Geological Sciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has received a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

Northwestern University physicist Nathaniel Stern and economist Bruno Strulovici each have been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for 2013 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Anthropology Professor Helen B. Schwartzman has been elected to a Visiting Fellowship at Oxford's Magdalen College. She will research Bodleian Library collections on 19th and 20th century children's toys and games.

Professors Anupam Garg and André de Gouvêa have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society.

The Modern Language Association of America will present its 22nd Howard R. Marraro Prize to Associate Professor Marco Ruffini for his book Art without an Author: Vasari's Lives and Michelangelo's Death.

Alumna Michelle Grabner, who received her MFA from the department of Art Theory and Practice in 1990, was named one of three curators of the 2014 Whitney Biennial, an influential survey of the state of contemporary art in the United States.