Northwestern recognizes three cohorts of newly tenured faculty
Northwestern honored 92 faculty members who earned tenure in 2020, 2021 and 2022 during a Feb. 6 ceremony in Evanston. The event, which had been postponed the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, featured brief research presentations from six faculty members representing five schools.
“I cannot emphasize enough just how impressed I am with the quality of our faculty here at Northwestern,” said President Michael Schill, who also is a professor in the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the Kellogg School of Management. “All of you here tonight embody the highest standards of excellence.”
Among Northwestern’s newly tenured faculty are winners of the Carnegie Fellowship, the Sloan Research Fellowship, the Young Investigator Award from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and Foundation, and the New Horizons Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, as well as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and 10 National Science Foundation Early Career Award winners.
“You are all moving your fields forward in pioneering ways, and are making an impact on society,” said Provost Kathleen Hagerty, who also is the First Chicago Professor of Finance in the Kellogg School of Management. “I know that well because I personally review each and every application for tenure. It’s one of my favorite parts of this job because it serves as a reminder of the amazing work of our faculty, and strengthens my appreciation for our academic community.”
Schill encouraged the newly tenured faculty members to always follow their passion and be willing to take risks.
“Perhaps most important, savor your success,” Schill said. “You have each achieved something wondrous. Make sure you do something memorable.”
2020 cohort of tenured faculty
- Atique Ahmed, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Norrina Allen, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Irina Balyasnikova, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Grant Barish, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Lydia Barnett, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Ankit Bharat, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Lina Britto, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Corey Byrnes, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- C Savio Chan, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Nicholos Diakopoulos, School of Communication
- Omar Farha, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Eva Gottwein, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Claudia Haase, School of Education and Social Policy
- Marina Henke, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Mark Huffman, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Jessica Hullman, McCormick School of Engineering
- Brannon Ingram, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Rebecca Johnson, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Kristen Knutson, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Amanda Logan, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Raffaella Margutti, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Juan Martinez, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Mark McClish, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Michael Newcomb, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Laura Pedraza-Fariña, Pritzker School of Law
- Megan York Roberts, School of Communication
- Tiffany Schmidt, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Jorg Spenkuch, Kellogg School of Management
- Dashun Wang, Kellogg School of Management
- Erica Weitzman, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- George Wells, McCormick School of Engineering
2021 cohort of tenured faculty
- John Joseph Carrasco, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Jie Gu, McCormick School of Engineering
- Ruchi Gupta, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Yuan He, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Thorsten Kahnt, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Joseph Mazzulli, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Joshua Meeks, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Shmuel Nili, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Magdalena Osburn, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Sylvia Perry, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Jennie Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering
- Sarath Sanga, Pritzker School of Law
- Gregory Schwartz, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Adam Sonabend Worthalter, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Amanda Starc, Kellogg School of Management
- Amanda Stathopoulos, McCormick School of Engineering
- Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, McCormick School of Engineering
- Shirin Vossoughi, School of Education and Social Policy
2022 cohort of tenured faculty
- Nabil Alshurafa, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Katherine Amato, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Daniel Barron, Kellogg School of Management
- Tabitha Bonilla, School of Education and Social Policy
- Paul Burridge, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Qi Cao, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Jaehyuk Choi, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Paul DeCaen, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Francesca Duncan, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Piotr Dworczak, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Benjamin Golub, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Erica Hartmann, McCormick School of Engineering
- Peng Ji, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Kiarri Kershaw, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Pedram Khalili, McCormick School of Engineering
- Daniel Krcmaric, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Matthew Kugler, Pritzker School of Law
- Daniela Ladner, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Yvonne Lee, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Huiping Liu, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Yuan Luo, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Madhav Mani, McCormick School of Engineering
- Sandra Marquez, School of Communication
- Alexander Misharin, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Elizabeth Norton, School of Communication
- Siobhan Phillips, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Mehul Raval, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Jonathan Rivnay, McCormick School of Engineering
- Michael Rodriguez-Muniz, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Leoandra Rogers, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Terri Sabol, School of Education and Social Policy
- Courtney Scherr, School of Communication
- Hannes Schwandt, School of Education and Social Policy
- Benjamin Singer, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Ronen Sumagin, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Chloe Thurston, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Maferima Toure-Tillery, Kellogg School of Management
- Amisha Wallia, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Theresa Walunas, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Betina Yanez, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Mee-Ngan Yap, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Lynn Yee, Feinberg School of Medicine