February 23, 2007

Bartosz Grzybowski, assistant professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship for early-career scientists and scholars.

Fellowships are awarded for a two-year period, and Sloan Research Fellows, once chosen, are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of the most compelling interest to them.

The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars, often in their first appointments to university faculties, who were endeavoring to set up laboratories and establish their independent research projects with little or no outside support. Financial assistance at this crucial point, even in modest amounts, often pays handsome dividends later to society. Thirty-two Sloan Fellows have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers, and hundreds have received other honors.

Other Northwestern faculty to receive this award for 2007 are Lincoln Lauhon from Materials Science and Engineering, Franz Geiger and Karl Scheidt from Chemistry, Joshua Singer from Feinberg Medical School (Ophthalmology), and David Nadler from Mathematics.