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Goyal Named Mallinckrodt Foundation Grant Fellow

October 13, 2025 - from Feinberg School of Medicine

Goyal was selected to be nominated through a highly competitive internal process in which 14 proposals were received from across Northwestern. Goyal joins a group of more than 150 past fellows from the U.S. and Canada. His research combines theory, computation, and single-cell resolved experiments to track and control cellular plasticity and fate choices in developing tissues and disease.

*$300

Medill Local News Initiative launches a new hub with a Robert R. McCormick Foundation grant

June 9, 2025 - from Medill School of Journalism

The Robert R. McCormick Foundation has awarded a $3.6 million, three-year grant to the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern to expand the University’s work to strengthen local news and scholastic journalism in Illinois.

Seitz Receives Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

May 8, 2025 - from McCormick School of Engineering

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation recognizes Linsey Seitz, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, for her outstanding independent body of scholarship, and deep committed to education with the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.

*$100K

New observations could lead to more efficient catalysts for green hydrogen production

April 11, 2025 - from Northwestern Now

2011 Dreyfus Prize winner Tobin Marks, Professor of Chemistry, led an international team of scientists that has, for the first time, directly observed catalysis in-action at the atomic level.

 

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