Faculty and Student Honors
IPR faculty count among the nation's top scholars in their respective fields, producing research that is vibrant, inclusive, and impactful. The list below of the honorary fellowships, appointments, awards, and notable presentations celebrates their insightful contributions and research, as well as those of our talented students and postdoctoral fellows. You can also view our archive for awards prior to 2024.
April 2025
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Felix Yu and co-authors Jen-Ho Chang and Claudia Haase, developmental psychologist and IPR associate, won this year's “Best Poster - New Results” award at the Society for Affective Science conference for their poster on “Emotion regulation and changes in cognitive, affective and physical well-being across adulthood: A large-scale longitudinal investigation.”
- Education sociologist and IPR associate Cynthia Coburn, IPR health psychologist Greg Miller, law professor and IPR associate Daniel Rodriguez, and network scientist and IPR associate Brian Uzzi were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
March 2025
- IPR anthropologist Sera Young received the inaugural "Champions of Health" Award, a Recognition of Merit in Public Health, from Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health for her work with the Institute to implement the Water Insecurity Experiences (WISE) Scales in Mexico.
January 2025
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Developmental psychologist and IPR associate Claudia Haase, and her research assistant Angela Zhong, who were honored with Fletcher Awards. Zhong received the Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Undergraduate Summer Research Grant for Children and Families for her work on physiological mechanisms underlying empathy in child-caregiver interactions. Haase was awarded the Karl Rosengren Faculty Mentoring Award, for guiding the top summer undergraduate research grant project.
- Jonathan Guryan, Kirabo Jackson, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Molly Schnell, Hannes Schwandt, and Nicola Bianchi—all economists— had their research cited in the 2025 Economic Report of the President.
- Learning sciences scholar and IPR associate Nichole Pinkard and IPR statistician Elizabeth Tipton were elected to the National Academy of Education.
- Hatim Rahman, management scholar and IPR associate, was awarded the 2024 Luis Aparicio Prize by the International Labour and Employment Relations Association.
December 2024
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Sylvia Perry, IPR psychologist, will serve as an associate editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin starting in January 2025.
November 2024
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IPR statistician Elizabeth Tipton and professor and founding chair of medical social sciences and IPR associate David Cella were included on Clarivate’s 2024 Highly Cited Researchers list.
- Michelle Birkett, health disparities researcher and IPR associate, was chosen to lead Feinberg’s Center for Computational and Social Sciences in Health (COMPASS). The center will bridge data science, social science, and population health to advance cutting-edge research in healthcare
October 2024
- IPR psychologist Sylvia Perry was selected to be a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
September 2024
- IPR psychologist Sylvia Perry received the 2024 Ann L. Brown Award for Excellence in Developmental Research by the Department of Psychology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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IPR statistician Elizabeth Tipton and collective innovation scholar and IPR associate Elizabeth Gerber were named as Academic Leadership Program Fellows for the 2024–25 academic year by Northwestern’s Office of the Provost.
June 2024
- Nosh Contractor, social networking expert and IPR associate, was named executive director of Web Science Trust, a UK-based charity.
- Comparative media scholar and IPR associate Pablo Boczkowski received the 2024 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture from the Media Ecology Association.
- Professor and IPR associate emeritus Dan O’Keefe received the Steven H. Chaffee Career Achievement Award from the International Communication Association.
May 2024
- Claudia Haase, developmental psychologist and IPR associate, was awarded the 19th annual Dorothy Ann and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship Award.
- Pablo Boczkowski, comparative media scholar and IPR associate, was awarded the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Career Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association.
- IPR statistician Elizabeth Tipton was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
- Social policy scholar and IPR associate Quinn Mulroy was awarded the 2024 Ver Steeg Award for her work mentoring and supporting graduate students.
- IPR social psychologist Eli Finkel and his co-authors received an AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Marketing for their Journal of Consumer Research paper, “Common Cents: Bank Account Structure and Couples’ Relationship Dynamics.”
April 2024
- IPR social policy expert Sally Nuamah won the W.E.B Dubois Distinguished Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists for her book, Closed for Democracy: How Mass School Closure Undermines the Citizenship of Black Americans (2023, Cambridge University Press).
- Media scholar and IPR associate Thomas J. Billard was promoted to associate professor with tenure.
- IPR psychologist Sylvia Perry was named a Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Fellow.
- IPR graduate RA Jonathan Doriscar was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Honor Society at Yale University.
March 2024
- Behavioral scientist and IPR associate Linda Teplin will be appointed to the Division Committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Division of Behavioral Social Sciences and Education.
- IPR social policy expert Sally Nuamah's book Closed for Democracy: How Mass School Closure Undermines the Citizenship of Black Americans, has been named a finalist in the Government and Politics category of the Association of American Publishers’ 2024 PROSE awards.
February 2024
- IPR statistician Elizabeth Tipton was named a fellow of the American Education Research Association.
- IPR social psychologist Eli Finkel was appointed the inaugural co-director of the new Kellogg Center for Enlightened Disagreement.
- IPR political scientist Laurel Harbridge-Yong was named Associate Director of IPR as of Sept 1.
- Developmental psychologist and IPR associate Lauren Wakschlag was awarded the Paula H. Stern Award for Outstanding Women in Science and Medicine by the Northwestern Medical Women Faculty Organization.
January 2024
- IPR statistician Elizabeth Tipton was elected President-Elect of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness.
- IPR faculty adjunct Rachel Davis Mersey was appointed dean of Moody College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin.
- IPR postdoctoral fellow Lauren Tighe was appointed research assistant professor on Jan. 1 and will co-direct the Northwestern Two-Generation Research Initiative.