
Neil Kelleher, the Walter and Mary E. Glass Professor of Molecular Biosciences, professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Proteomics Center of Excellence at Northwestern University, has been awarded a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation.

The 161 members of the Class of 2016 entered their first year of medical school in August 2012. Members of the class have a collective total of 78 undergraduate majors, ranging from biomedical engineering to political science, speak 26 different languages, and hail from 33 states and nine foreign countries.

Determined to get an edge in a difficult job market, 50 doctoral students in science and engineering at Northwestern University are honing their real-world management skills this summer in an eight-week leadership program drawing on coursework from the Kellogg School of Management core MBA curriculum.