Three from MIT elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2020
Faculty members Abhijit Banerjee, Bonnie Berger, and Roger Summons elected by peers for outstanding contributions to research.
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen wins Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Award recognizes talents and leadership qualities of young faculty in the chemical sciences.
MIT IDEAS celebrates social innovation at the Institute
Seven teams of MIT social innovators receive funding to continue their ventures.
Top collegiate inventors awarded 2020 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Students around the country recognized for innovative solutions to better single-use plastic, spacecraft and aircraft fuel gauges, surgery techniques, and more.
Associate Professor Amy Moran-Thomas receives the 2020 Levitan Prize in the Humanities
The award will support the MIT anthropologist's research on the cultural dimensions of climate denialism.
Six from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2020
Prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members.
3 Questions: Areg Danagoulian on a new arms control tool and the future of nuclear security
Danagoulian and his research team developed a system that could greatly improve the process for verifying compliance of nuclear warheads.
Alex Shalek wins Edgerton Faculty Award
Professor of chemistry and IMES core member is recognized for his leadership and pioneering spirit.
Faithfully supporting well-being
Ezra Zuckerman Sivan, Jinhua Zhao, and Kamal Youcef-Toumi honored as “Committed to Caring.”
Three from MIT awarded 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships
MIT professors Sabine Iatridou, Jonathan Gruber, and Rebecca Saxe have been selected to pursue their work “under the freest possible conditions.”
Ten from MIT awarded 2020 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The $90,000 merit-based fellowship funds graduate studies for outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants.
Katie Collins, Vaishnavi Phadnis, and Vaibhavi Shah named 2020-21 Goldwater Scholars
Three MIT undergraduates who use computer science to explore human biology and health honored for their academic achievements.
Titan’s missing river deltas and an Earthly climate connection
Samuel Birch, a new Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellow at MIT, will investigate the surfaces of outer solar system objects.
Arizona wildfire series wins Knight Science Journalism’s Victor K. McElheny Award
Judges praise “Ahead of the Fire” for taking a local issue and showing “why it was relevant to everyone in the country.”
Ed Boyden wins prestigious Wilhelm Exner Medal
Entrepreneurial science award recognizes scientists whose work opens up “new dimensions of economic progress."