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Faculty awards

Prof. Kelly Mayo and Prof. Karl Scheidt have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read about it here. (January 2012)

Prof. Teresa Woodruff has been awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. Read about it here. (December 2011)

Prof. Michael Jewett has been awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Read about it here. (November 2011)

Prof. Chad Mirkin and Prof. Richard Morimoto have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read about it here. (April 2011)

Prof. Chad Mirkin has been elected a member of the Institute of Medicine. He is the first at Northwestern and in the Midwest and the 10th in the world to be elected to all three branches of the National Academies. Read about it here. (September 2010)

Prof. Richard Silverman has received the E.B. Hershberg Award for Important Discoveries in Medicinally Active Substances from the American Chemical Society. Read about it here. (September 2010)

Prof. Josh Leonard testified before Congress on synthetic biology and interdisciplinary education. Read about it here. (July 2010)

Prof. Heather Pinkett was named a 2010 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. Read about it here. (June 2010)

Prof. Chad Mirkin was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Read about it here. (April 2010)

Prof. Jonathan Widom received a major award to launch the new Physical Sciences - Oncology Center at Northwestern. Read about it here. (October 2009)

Prof. Jason Brickner received the W.M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Scholars in Medical Research Award. Read about it here. (August 2009)

Prof. Chad Mirkin received the Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention. Read about it here. (June 2009)

Prof. Carole LaBonne was named to the board of directors of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). Read about it here. (April 2009)

Prof. Erwin Goldberg received the 2009 Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Andrology (ASA). Read about it here.

Prof. Chad Mirkin was named to President Obama's Science and Technology Advisory Council. Read about it here. (April 2009)

Prof. Robert Linsenmeier has been named an ARVO 2009 Fellow. Read about it here.

Prof. Richard Silverman has been awarded the Perkin Medal by the Society of Chemical Industry, the highest honor given for outstanding applied chemistry in the United States. Read about it here. (March 2009)

Prof. Luis Amaral has been named an Early Career Scientist of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Read about it here. (March 2009)

Prof. Chad Mirkin has been elected to National Academy of Engineering. Read about it here. (February 2009)

Dr. Robert Linsenmeier received the 2007 Theo C. Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Read about it here.

Dr. Richard Morimoto was named to the Board of Governors of Argonne National Laboratory. Read about it here. (January 2007)

Dr. Robert A. Lamb was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (2007)

Dr. Olke Uhlenbeck received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the RNA Society. (2006)

Dr. Luis Amaral was named a Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research by the Keck Foundation. (2006)

Dr. Brian M. Hoffman, Professor of Chemistry, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Read about it here. (May 2006)

Dr. Amy Rosenzweig was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. (2003)

Dr. Robert A. Lamb was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. (2003)