Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Service

The Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Service celebrates faculty exemplars of academic citizenship and service.

Linzer Award recipients have performed extraordinary service that has had a positive impact on the University as an institution and on the members of the university community. This service has significantly enhanced the quality of Northwestern as an educational institution and community of scholars.

AWARD AND NominATION INFORMATION Past Recipients

Please direct questions to Director of Faculty Initiatives Jordan Hughes.

2025 Recipients

Almaz Mesghina

Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Psychology

Almaz Mesghina teaches more than 300 students per year in her classrooms. She selects content for her courses that exposes students to perspectives and voices that often go overlooked in psychology and teaches her students the scientific imperative of doing so. The structure of her classes promotes cooperation between students, actively encouraging students to support each other on group research projects and on collaborative quizzes.

H Steven (Hank) Seifert

John Edward Porter Professor of Biomedical Research in the Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School or Medicine

Hank Seifert has been a member of Feinberg faculty for 36 years. His research studying the evolution of infectious agents of health concern, in particular microbes such as Neisseria gonorrhoeae, has earned him honors and accolades in his field, in which he is seen as a leader. During his career, which he has spent entirely at Northwestern, Seifert has trained 18 Ph.D. students and 18 post-doctoral students and served on Ph.D. thesis committees for over 75 students. He was named Feinberg’s 2011 Mentor of the Year thanks to his drive to support young faculty as they built their research programs. Seifert was also the director of the Feinberg Integrated Graduate Program (now the Driscol Graduate Program).