Nancy Leveson receives space safety award
Professor of aeronautics and astronautics honored for contributions toward the safety of space systems.
Targeting cancer from many angles
Killian Award recipient Tyler Jacks fosters interdisciplinary, innovative cancer research.
Reuben Saunders named 2016-2017 Churchill Scholar
MIT senior and chemistry major will pursue graduate studies in the U.K.
Jonathan How named AIAA Fellow
MIT professor and engineer honored for significant contributions to the field of aeronautics.
Eric Lander wins AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize
Professor and director of the Broad Institute honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for outstanding contributions to science and society.
Three from MIT elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Contributions of new members include the design of parallel computing systems, the development of 3-D printing, and the discovery of near-Earth asteroids.
Five with MIT ties tapped for Inventors Hall of Fame
MIT professor and four alumni honored for inventing electronic ink, the spanning tree protocol, and Sketchpad, a human-machine graphical communication system.
Welcome the MIT Siebel Scholars for 2016
Graduate students from bioengineering, business, computer science, and energy science join a distinguished intellectual community.
Radiation physics today for materials science tomorrow
In the 2016 Del Favero Doctoral Thesis Prize Lecture, Mingda Li PhD '15 describes how radiation can help us understand and design new materials.
Thomas Levenson receives the 2016 Levitan Prize in the Humanities
Award will support research on the South Sea Bubble crisis as an example of connections between scientific developments and their larger social consequences.
35 exceptional MIT students named Burchard Scholars for 2016
Sophomores and juniors who excel in the HASS and STEM fields are honored.
Edward Boyden wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Three neuroscientists share biomedicine prize for development of optogenetics
Three from MIT named inaugural Schwarzman Scholars
New award pays for one-year master's at Tsinghua University in China.
25 from MIT named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists in 2016
Students, researchers, and alumni honored in the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 lists showcasing America’s most important young entrepreneurs, thinkers, and leaders.
Grad students honored for their research at Materials Research Society meeting
Three MIT graduate students win Silver Awards for work on catalysts, hydrogels, and magnetic nanoparticles.