Two Northwestern professors have been elected to the National Academy of Inventors, the University announced last month. Roozbeh Ghaffari and Daniel Martin Watterson were among 169 fellows elected in 2022, according to a University press release. Ghaffari and Watterson will be inducted with other recently-elected fellows on June 27. Ghaffari, a biomedical engineering professor and.
Plus, MacKenzie Scott gave Girls Scouts of the USA nearly $85 million, and Nvidia Corporation founder Jen-Hsun Huang and his wife, Lori, gave their alma mater $50 million for research into artificial intelligence, materials science, and robotics.
Northwestern University Trustee Kimberly K. Querrey (’22, ’23 P) and the Louis Simpson Trust have made a new $121 million gift to Northwestern to advance biomedical discovery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, reinforce the University’s position as a global research powerhouse and expand executive education at the Kellogg School of Management.