Five from MIT win 2015 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Recipients, all immigrants or children of immigrants, win $90,000 apiece to support graduate studies.
Shalek receives Searle Scholars Award
Award to Professor Alex Shalek will support new advances in nanotechnology and chemical biology.
MIT students showcase innovative ideas for the betterment of humankind
Students’ innovative IDEAS Global Challenge projects combine entrepreneurship with the passion to help others around the world.
Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration team earns Nelson P. Jackson Aerospace Award
Annual award recognizes an outstanding contribution made in the missile, aircraft, and space field.
Adding up to a big win
MIT dominates at annual Putnam Mathematical Competition, taking five of six top individual spots.
Falling in love with numbers at MIT
Sheela Devadas '15, winner of the 2015 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics, fell in love with the subject at MIT — while still in high school.
Michael Stonebraker wins $1 million Turing Award
CSAIL researcher invented core database concepts, turned many into companies.
Benjamin Lin wins Elite 89 Award at NCAA Fencing Championship
Computer science and engineering major recognized for athletic and academic excellence.
Hu selected for 2015 Holonyak, Jr. Award
Optical Society honors pioneering work on high-performance terahertz quantum-cascade lasers.
Fujimoto receives the OSA Frederic Ives Medal
MIT professor honored for pioneering the field of optical coherence tomography and leading medical and commercial applications.
Margaret Guo '16 earns NCAA Elite 89 Award
Dual major in electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering recognized for athletic and academic excellence.