Mark C. Hersam, PhD, a Northwestern University materials engineer and Feinberg School of Medicine professor has been named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow.
The 163 newly-matriculated students who represent the incoming class hail from 35 states and 9 foreign countries, speak 20 different languages and have a collective total of 79 undergraduate majors ranging from anthropology and biomedical engineering to economics and public health.