Awards, honors and fellowships

Professor Kit Cummins has been awarded the 2017 Linus Pauling Medal, which honors the spirit of the celebrated American chemist and two-time Nobel Prize winner.

Kit Cummins awarded the American Chemical Society Pauling Medal

Award presented annually in recognition of outstanding achievement in chemistry in the spirit of, and in honor of, Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling.

June 28, 2017

MIT winners at the 2017 New England Emmy Awards: (left to right) John Freidah of the Department of Mechanical Engineering; and Larry Gallagher, Jean Dunoyer, and Joe McMaster of MIT Video Productions.

Two MIT documentaries win New England Emmy Awards

The Department of Mechanical Engineering's “Water Is Life” and MIT Video Productions' “A Bold Move” take home top honors in separate categories.

June 28, 2017

The Managed, Reconfigurable, In-space Nodal Assembly (MARINA), developed by MIT graduate students, recently took first place at NASA's Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts-Academic Linkage Design Competition Forum. MARINA is designed as a habitable commercially owned module for use in low Earth orbit that would be extensible for future use as a Mars transit vehicle.

MIT space hotel wins NASA graduate design competition

Module would serve as a commercially owned space station, featuring a luxury hotel as the primary anchor tenant and NASA as a temporary co-anchor tenant.

June 28, 2017

The School of Science newly-tenured professors for 2017 include (clockwise from top left): Mircea Dincă, Liang Fu, Jeff Gore, Jeremiah Johnson, Bradley Pentelute, Jesse Thaler, and Matthew Vander Heiden.

School of Science professors granted tenure

Seven award-winning faculty members represent the departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.

June 28, 2017

Chris Bourg (at center in turquoise blue shirt) stands with the recipients of the MIT Libraries' 2017 Infinite Mile Awards.

MIT Libraries staff honored with 2017 Infinite Mile Awards

Annual celebration of excellence honors employees for exceptional contributions on behalf of library users and colleagues.

June 26, 2017

WEPAN President Teri Reed (left) and MIT's DiOnetta Jones Crayton (right).

DiOnetta Jones Crayton receives inclusive culture and equity award

Award recognizes efforts to “promote positive change to the climate and culture for women in engineering fields.”

June 23, 2017

MIT Euro-Club and MISTI officials celebrate a milestone: (left to right) the Euro-Club's Xiaoyu Wu, Susanna Bachle, Katrin Michel, Karine Ip, and Giulio Alighieri; MISTI's Tanya Raymond, Alicia Goldstein Raun, Serenella Sferza, and Erin Schenck.

A unique partnership

The MIT European Club surpasses $200,000 mark in support of MISTI fellowships.

June 21, 2017

Left to right: School of Engineering Dean Ian A. Waitz, graduate student Mary Elizabeth Wagner, and Alan Oppenheim '59, ScD '64, who is a sponsor of the School of Engineering Graduate Student Award for Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring.

School of Engineering awards for 2017

Awards given to outstanding faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students.

June 21, 2017

Clockwise from top left: Pew Scholar Ibrahim Cissé, Pew Latin American Fellows Ana Fiszbein and Maria E. Inda, and Pew Scholar Gene-Wei Li.

Pew recognizes four MIT researchers for innovation in biomedical science

Biophysicist Ibrahim Cissé and cell biologist Gene-Wei Li honored as Pew Scholars; postdocs Ana Fiszbein and María Inda are named Pew Latin American Fellows.

June 20, 2017