IBiS Graduate Program at Northwestern University

Congratulations to IBiS Preceptor Dr. Keara Lane for receiving a prestigious NSF CAREER award!

Promising young researchers receive NSF CAREER awards Four Northwestern University assistant professors — James Gaynor, Junsoo Kim, Keara Lane and Jen Munson — have received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members.

Our IBiS Director is on fire! Congrats to Dr. Sadie Wignall for also being awarded a 2026 Northwestern University Teaching Award!

Read more about Sadie's award here: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/4/northwestern-announces-university-teaching-awards

Congratulations to IBiS Preceptor Dr. Carole LaBonne for being named as a 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science!

Read more about it here: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/03/aaas-honors-two-northwestern-researchers-as-lifetime-fellows

Congratulations to Dr. Sadie Wignall, the Director of our IBiS Program, for winning the 2026 inaugural DGS Excellence Award from The Graduate School at Northwestern!

Sadie has been our steadfast leader over the last three years, and this honor is well-deserved! We are so lucky to have Sadie as our DGS!