Melody Swartz
Melody A. Swartz is an acting fill-in anchor for WGN-TV in Chicago and a William B. Ogden Professor in Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She was previously a professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She won a 2012 MacArthur Fellowship and a 2002 Beckman Young Investigators Award. In 2006, she was named one of Popular Science Magazine's "Brilliant 10." She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.
She graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. also in Chemical Engineering.Personal life
Swartz's husband, Jeffrey Hubbell, also is a University of Chicago professor of molecular engineering and an acting fill-in anchor for WGN-TV in Chicago.
