Faculty honors and awards

Just as important as what you learn is who you learn from. Northwestern professors are dedicated teachers and committed Christians who have studied around the world and earned degrees from a list of institutions that includes Duke, Princeton, UCLA and Yale. They also contribute to their fields as renowned scholars and researchers, earning honors and awards like these:

Dr. Earl Woudstra, kinesiology 
Inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame, 2012

Jeff Barker, theatre 
Script consultant for "The Frontier Boys," which won best feature at the Iowa Independent Film Festival, 2011

Dr. Luke Dahn, music 
Composed "Dash," which premiered by the Boston Brass, 2011
 
Dr. Jennifer Feenstra, psychologyFulbright Scholarship, 2011

Dr. Kim Jongerius, mathematics 
Elected president of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, 2011 

Dr. Heather Josselyn-Cranson, music 2nd prize, Jesuit 25th Anniversary Hymn-writing Contest, 2011

Dr. Robert Winn, history 
Authored Eusebius of Emesa: Church and Theology in the Mid-Fourth Century, which was published by The Catholic University of America Press, 2011
 
Dr. Ruth Daumer, nursing 

Elected president of the Iowa Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2010

Dr. Karissa Carlson, chemistry University of Iowa FUTURE fellow in biomedicine, 2009

Dr. Ralph Davis, biology $200,000 NIH grant for neurobiology research, 2006

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