Six MIT SHASS educators receive 2021 Levitan Teaching Awards
Honors outstanding success in teaching undergraduate and graduate students.
2021 MITx Prize winners build community on campus and across the globe
MIT instructors honored for creating multidimensional, multidisciplinary online courses that help learners everywhere address real-world problems.
Thirty-eight extraordinary MIT students named 2021 Burchard Scholars
Undergraduates selected for the competitive program enjoy a seminar series and conversations over dinners with distinguished faculty.
MIT IDEAS celebrates 20 years of social innovation at MIT
Six new IDEAS teams receive grants to continue developing their work with communities.
Thirteen from MIT awarded 2021 Fulbright Fellowships
Grants will support their research, graduate study, and teaching abroad in 2021-22.
Jeremy Kepner named SIAM Fellow
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics recognizes Kepner, a pivotal member of the team that established Lincoln Laboratory's Supercomputing Center, for his innovative work in computing.
Susan Solomon, scholar of atmospheric chemistry and environmental policy, delivers Killian Lecture
MIT professor describes her path to the Institute, her work on ozone depletion, and her insights on the state of climate policy.
Robert C. Merton honored with MIT’s Killian Award
Finance scholar is granted highest distinction offered by Institute faculty.
Ben Linville-Engler awarded 2021 Collier Medal
System Design and Management's industry and certificate director is honored for his work in Covid-19 response.
Six from MIT named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Fellowship funds graduate studies at Stanford University.
Paula Hammond and Arup Chakraborty named Institute Professors
The two chemical engineers are awarded MIT’s highest faculty honor.
Buttressing perseverance from a distance
Alfredo Alexander-Katz and Caroline Jones honored as “Committed to Caring.”
Five from MIT elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2021
Faculty members Dan Freedman, Robert Griffin, Larry Guth, Stephen Morris, and Gigliola Staffilani elected by peers for outstanding contributions to research.
David Miliband SM ’90 receives the 2021 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award
As the United Kingdom's foreign secretary, Miliband drove advancements in human rights and became known as “one of the ablest, most creative public servants of our time.”
Top collegiate inventors awarded 2021 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Student inventors recognized on World IP Day for groundbreaking, patentable solutions to issues related to maternal health, energy efficiency, and plastic waste.