Media Lab’s Neri Oxman awarded Vilcek Prize
Architect and designer recognized for leading-edge design inspired by biology
Pedro Reis receives Early Career Award from National Science Foundation
Award will fund continued development of Smart Morphable Surfaces (or Smorphs), a new class of on-demand morphable structures.
Marvin Minsky honored for lifetime achievements in artificial intelligence
The MIT professor emeritus earns the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his pioneering work and mentoring role in the field of artificial intelligence.
Robert Langer wins 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Langer honored for his discoveries in controlled drug-release systems and new biomaterials; awards ceremony hosted by Kevin Spacey to be broadcast Jan. 27
Seeing beauty in a materials science world
Marshall Scholar Colleen Loynachan tackles materials science problems with a photographer’s perspective.
SA+P receives $1 million grant from Mellon Foundation
The grant will help create a Global Architecture History Teaching Collaborative.
Fundraising effort contributes $35,000 to Sean A. Collier Memorial Fund
Tour de Force NY presents check at ceremony attended by the mayor of Boston and representatives of MIT and local police forces.
Anthropologist Manduhai Buyandelger wins the 2013 Levitan Prize in the Humanities
The $25,000 research grant will go towards supporting the professor's ethnographic study of parliamentary elections in Mongolia.
Ludwig Cancer Research gives $90 million to MIT
MIT is one of six institutions receiving a total of $540 million to provide reliable, long-term support for high-impact, innovative research.
Getting a move on in math
Marshall Scholar Kirin Sinha is motivating young women to pursue math through dance.
Crossing disciplines, and international borders
Rhodes Scholar John Mikhael, who calls both the U.S. and Lebanon home, is also comfortable in many scientific fields.
Grove awarded Geochemical Society's Goldschmidt Award
EAPS professor Timothy L. Grove has been named a Goldschmidt Medalist by the Geochemical Society for his contributions to Earth and planetary research.
Symposium marks 50th anniversary of ‘The Machine in the Garden’
Enduringly influential book by Leo Marx, MIT professor emeritus
Remembering Arthur R. von Hippel
MIT Institute Professor Emeritus Mildred Dresselhaus recalls mentor’s influence as she receives award in his name.