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 in previous years.
November 2025
- The Medill Local News Initiative, of which media scholar and IPR associate Stephanie Edgerly is a member, received a prestigious Chicago Innovation Award.
October 2025
- Alice Eagly, professor and IPR fellow emerita, received the 2025 SESP Scientific Impact Award for her co-authored Psychological Review article “Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders.”
- IPR social psychologists Mesmin Destin and Michael Kraus received the 2025 Society of Experimental Social Psychology Diversity Science Awards.
- IPR political scientist Dan Galvin's book, Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers' Rights, was named one of the 2024 Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics by the Princeton University Industrial Relations Section.
- Andy Papachristos, IPR director and sociologist, was elected a member of the Council on Criminal Justice.
September 2025
- Natalie Moore, journalist and IPR associate, won Best News Story at the National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Awards for her Chicago Sun-Times article about the harms of hair relaxers, August 2025.
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IPR education researcher and statistician Larry Hedges's journal article, “The meta-analysis of response ratios in experimental ecology,” was named ias one of the 36 most influential papers of the last 100 years in statistical ecology in the journal Ecology.
August 2025
- IPR sociologist Lincoln Quillian received the Robert M. Hauser Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association’s section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility.
- Kate Weisshaar, IPR sociologist, received three awards from the American Sociological Association for her article, “Hiring discrimination under pressures to diversify: Gender, race, and diversity commodification across job transitions in software engineering.” They were the Devah Pager Outstanding Article Award from the section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility, the W. Richard Scott Article Award from the section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work, and the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award from the section on Race, Gender, and Class.
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” award for new results at the Society for Affective Science conference for “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, 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.