Miguel Zenón, assistant professor of jazz at MIT, wins Grammy Award
The renowned saxophonist won Best Latin Jazz Album along with pianist Luis Perdomo for their album, “El Arte Del Bolero Vol. 2.”
MIT students win national materials design competition
At the ASM Materials Education Foundation’s 2023 Undergraduate Design Competition, seniors Louise Anderfaas and Darsh Grewal design a super-strong aluminum plate for applications such as planes and cars.
Six MIT students selected as spring 2024 MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows
The graduate students will aim to commercialize innovations in AI, machine learning, and data science.
Projects investigating Swahili, global media win SHASS Humanities Awards
The awards offer opportunities to expand research into unique areas of scholarship.
New fellowship to help advance science journalism in Africa and the Middle East
The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT announces a new one-semester fellowship to start in fall 2024.
Nancy Hopkins awarded the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal
The MIT professor emerita and pioneering molecular biologist is being honored for her advocacy for women in science.
School of Engineering fourth quarter 2023 awards
Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence.
Susan Solomon wins VinFuture Award for Female Innovators
The award recognizes Solomon’s contributions to understanding ozone depletion and the creation of the Montreal Protocol.
MIT Faculty Founder Initiative announces finalists for second competition
Twelve researchers selected as finalists for 2023-24 MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition to support female entrepreneurs in biotech.
Award shines a spotlight on local science journalism
The Knight Science Journalism Program’s Victor K. McElheny Award honors outstanding local and regional journalists’ reporting on science, public health, tech, and the environment.
Three honored with 2023 School of Science teaching prizes
Roger Levy, Pulin Li, and David McGee were nominated by peers and students for their exceptional instruction.
MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2023
MIT Koch Institute researchers Daniel Anderson and Ana Jaklenec, plus 11 MIT alumni, are honored for inventions that have made a tangible impact on society.
Three MIT students selected as inaugural MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows
The graduate students will aim to commercialize innovations in AI, machine learning, and data science.
Ronald Garcia Ruiz named a Popular Science “Brilliant 10”
Assistant professor of physics honored for work on the development of laser spectroscopy techniques to investigate the properties of subatomic particles.
Moungi Bawendi honored during Nobel Week in Stockholm
The professor of chemistry participated in various festivities, culminating in the Nobel Prize ceremony on Dec. 10.