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Professor of economics and history Joel Mokyr won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Mokyr has taught at Northwestern for more than five decades.
Launched in 2024, Northwestern’s Center for Engineering in Vision and Ophthalmology (CEVO) is using artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge technology to advance its glaucoma research. Backed by a gift from the Forsythe Family Foundation, CEVO is developing innovative imaging tools to better understand and treat the disease, one of the world’s leading causes of permanent blindness.
A gift from Northwestern Trustee Jennifer Leischner Litowitz ’91 and Alec Litowitz in support of the Center for Enlightened Disagreement will accelerate the University’s impact on promoting constructive dialogue. In recognition of the Litowitzes’ generosity, the University has renamed the center in their honor.
Last fall — following a 16-month closure for major renovations — the Charles Deering Memorial Library reopened to students, faculty and visitors. The building may look the same on the outside, but a new era has begun after aesthetic and functional updates to the library’s interior.
In 2025 Northwestern is celebrating milestone anniversaries for three premier music and theater venues on the Evanston campus.
The share of Pell Grant–eligible students on campus has reached 21%, a figure that puts Northwestern ahead of all but four of its peer institutions. History professor Kevin Boyle shares his thoughts on Northwestern University’s efforts to invest in a more equitable vision of higher education.
Divya Gupta explored many avenues during her four years at Northwestern. She became president of the women’s club tennis team, learned about international journalism in Japan, studied abroad in Spain, worked with the Institute for Policy Research and more.
The Northwestern Alumni Association bestows its greatest honor, the Alumni Medal, on four alumni for their professional achievement and service to the University.
The Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts’ production of Man of La Mancha put a timely twist on one of the world’s most frequently staged musicals. Directed by theater department chair Henry Godinez, the play was set not in a Spanish prison but in a modern-day detention center.
Since 1980, MBA students at the Kellogg School of Management have come together to write, direct and perform in Special K!, a musical comedy show featuring singing, dancing and drama sketches about life at Kellogg.
