Awards, honors and fellowships

As the additive manufacturing lead at Lincoln Laboratory, Derek Straub works with technical staff to design 3-D-printed parts for various systems and technologies and oversees production on nine industrial machines.

Derek Straub: Shaping the future of additive manufacturing

Lincoln Laboratory's 3-D printing lead has been named to Manufacturing Engineering magazine's 30 Under 30 list.

September 25, 2018

McGovern Institute investigator Feng Zhang is the winner of the 2018 Keio Medical Science Prize.

Feng Zhang wins 2018 Keio Medical Science Prize

McGovern Institute scientist is recognized with award for outstanding and creative achievements made in the life and medical sciences.

September 19, 2018

Anant Agarwal is the CEO of edX, an online learning destination founded by MIT and Harvard. He has served as the director of CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.

Anant Agarwal, MIT professor and edX CEO, wins Yidan Prize

Agarwal is recognized for making education more accessible to people around the world, via edX open-source online platform.

September 18, 2018

Samer Saab, founder of Wala, accepts the Zambezi Prize competition’s $100,000 grand prize award.

South Africa startup Wala wins Zambezi Prize for micropayments platform

Legatum Center’s award for innovation in financial inclusion plays a key role in MIT’s push to expand African engagement.

September 18, 2018

The recipients of the 2019 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award are (l-r) Andy Vidan, Gregory Hogan, and Paul Breimyer. They are being honored for their development of an integrated decision support system for coordinating disaster response activities.

IEEE honors disaster response system developers

Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award recognizes Lincoln Laboratory researchers who created a system that gives first responders the big picture.

September 17, 2018

Graduate student Connor Coley has been honored for his work in the field of machine learning and chemical synthesis.

Connor Coley named a Chemical and Engineering News Talented Twelve

Chemical engineering graduate student was named a “machine-learning maestro” by the magazine.

September 14, 2018

McGovern Institute investigator and brain and cognitive sciences Assistant Professor Mark Harnett has been named a 2018 Vallee Scholar.

Mark Harnett named Vallee Foundation Scholar

MIT neuroscientist is among five people selected to receive the early career award.

September 14, 2018

MIT's 2018 HHMI Hanna Gray fellows are (l-r) Jarrett Smith, Quinton Smith, and Matheus Victor.

New perspectives at the bench

Three MIT postdocs earn competitive Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellowships that support diversity in the sciences.

September 12, 2018

Luis von Ahn is the winner of the 2018 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for invention.

Luis von Ahn awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize

Inventor of CAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA and Duolingo recognized for commitment to invention, education, and mentorship.

September 12, 2018

Timothy Grove, the Robert R. Shrock Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, explores the processes that have led to the chemical evolution of Earth and other planets and objects in our solar system.

Timothy Grove awarded AGU's Harry H. Hess Medal

American Geophysical Union honors EAPS professor's “outstanding achievements in research on the constitution and evolution of the Earth and other planets.”

September 10, 2018