Thanks to our generous alumni, parents, and friends the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences have a great deal to celebrate.  

Board members’ generosity fueled the College’s key priorities. The Weinberg College Board of Visitors is a group of alumni, parents, and friends selected by the dean to provide counsel, advocacy, and financial support to College priorities, by contributing $57M to Weinberg College—including gifts to support faculty excellence, student success, and global thinking. Members of the…

Thanks to the support of our generous donor community,  over $7M was raised from 137 donors, enabling 1,404 students to participate in Arch Scholars Programs. This suite of free-standing but overlapping programs are designed to welcome, engage, and support students who are among the first in their families to attend college, those who attended high…

171 new members joined the Henry and Emma Rogers Society with planned gifts to Weinberg College. With a planned gift directed to Weinberg College, our alumni create a legacy of philanthropic support for students, faculty, research, and programs. The Rogers Society honors and recognizes alumni and friends who include Northwestern in their estate plans, create…

Donors who make annual leadership gifts (annual gifts of $1,000 or more) supporting any area of Weinberg College become members of the Wilson Society, a Northwestern University Leadership Giving Society. Members receive access to exclusive events, publications, and insights from leaders across the University. Weinberg College donors are invited to a private faculty speaker series, Conversations…

Your contributions have made a lasting impact that profoundly transforms our community of learning and scholarship. In the video, Dean Adrian Randolph explains how your generosity has supported and invigorated Weinberg College’s mission. Almost a decade ago, Northwestern University embarked on an ambitious fundraising campaign with priorities that included fostering discovery and creativity, integrating the student experience, connecting…

Donor generosity enabled student success, faculty excellence, and rich global experiences on and off campus. The College’s ambitious effort to reimagine the interdisciplinary arts and sciences for today’s complex world is based on three foundations: Student Success, Faculty and Research Excellence, and Weinberg in the World. Throughout the “We Will” Campaign, gifts to each of…

A Data Revolution, When Cultures Meet, and The Nature of Things showcased the dean’s priorities and received immense donor support. When Dean Randolph arrived in summer of 2015, he laid out a vision to ensure that Weinberg College students and faculty were positioned to thrive in today’s interconnected and complex world. He worked closely with…

Kresge Hall Kresge Hall (1955) was built to commemorate Northwestern’s 100th anniversary and named for the Kresge Foundation. The renovation started in 2014 and was completed in 2017 and is the University’s first LEED platinum building. It houses the programs in comparative literary studies, art theory and practice, art history, and foreign languages. Donor support…

Since 2012, more than 4,000 students have attended Waldron Program events including panels, career treks, and the annual Career Summit. Knowing that Northwestern alumni are excellently positioned to provide insight and guidance to students exploring post-graduation career options, alumnus Austin J. Waldron, ’78, partnered with the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences to create and…

Thanks to a gift from Jennifer Leischner Litowitz ’91 and Alec Litowitz, the Litowitz Creative Writing Graduate Program is the first of its kind at a top-tier university. As involved supporters of the arts and creative expression, Jennifer and Alec Litowitz knew a targeted investment in a program poised for influential prominence could bring Northwestern to the top…

The new center aims to make important discoveries about the emergent properties of growth and development. How does life develop? What are the limits of biological adaptation? Why do organisms age differently? These are some of the fundamental questions that quantitative biology, a new interdisciplinary approach to biological science, hopes to answer, thanks to a…

Donor generosity endows a pivotal academic experience for students. Recognizing the importance of opportunities for undergrads to perform research first-hand, Heather, ’92, and Felix Baker made a generous gift to endow and name the undergraduate research program at Weinberg College. “Having the opportunity to work with accomplished scholars conducting primary research to answer fascinating questions helped…