MIT community in 2023: A year in review
Top Institute stories dealt with a presidential inauguration, international accolades for faculty and students, “Dialogues Across Difference,” new and refreshed community spaces, and more.
Top Institute stories dealt with a presidential inauguration, international accolades for faculty and students, “Dialogues Across Difference,” new and refreshed community spaces, and more.
The professor of chemistry participated in various festivities, culminating in the Nobel Prize ceremony on Dec. 10.
A look at how the MIT professor spent his day after learning he had won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
For his work on techniques to generate quantum dots of uniform size and color, Bawendi is honored along with Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov.
Top Institute stories dealt with a presidential transition; Climate Grand Challenges; an action plan for belonging, achievement, and composition; the MIT Morningside Academy for Design; “Wakanda Forever” at MIT; and more.
The 2022 honorees received their prizes, and the 2020 and 2021 winners were also honored at the first full ceremony since the start of the pandemic.
MIT alumnus and two others honored for research on the role of banks in the economy, including during financial crises.
K. Barry Sharpless is a former member of the chemistry faculty, while Carolyn Bertozzi is the daughter of Physics Professor Emeritus William Bertozzi and a Lemelson-MIT Prize winner.
Top Institute stories dealt with the return to campus and continued response to Covid-19, MIT’s commitments to climate action, its support of a diverse community, and more.
In the Hoyt C. Hottel Lecture, Arnold tells the story of her pathbreaking research to engineer better enzymes for critical applications.
Cited for work building the foundations of “natural experiments” in economic research, Angrist is honored along with David Card and Guido Imbens.
MIT alumnus and one other honored for their discoveries of how the nervous system senses temperature and touch.
MIT alumna and two others honored for discoveries in black hole physics.
Longtime MIT physicist and mentor created instruments that advanced high-energy physics, including the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the J particle.
MIT professor and alumna shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics, which recognized collaborators’ “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”