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Professor Steven R. Tannenbaum, Professor of Chemistry and Underwood-Prescott Professor of Toxicology, Biological Engineering Division, is the recipient of the Second AACR-CICR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research. The award was established in 2007 by the AACR’s Chemistry in Cancer Research Working Group, through the support of GlaxoSmithKline, and honors novel and significant chemistry research that has led to important contributions to the field of cancer research. Tannenbaum’s study of chemistry as related to cancer has advanced our knowledge of chemical carcinogenesis, the molecular epidemiology of cancer, and more recently, anti-cancer drug development and evaluation. Professor Tannenbaum will be recognized by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) at its 2008 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. |
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Professor Christopher C. Cummins has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers, announced on April 28, 2008 the election of a new class of members. “The Academy honors excellence by electing to membership remarkable men and women who have made preeminent contributions to their fields, and to the world,” said Academy President Emilio Bizzi.Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots, the Academy has elected as members the finest minds and most influential leaders from each generation, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the nineteenth, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the twentieth. The current membership includes some 200 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners. |
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The Board of Directors of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has awarded the Camille Dreyfus-Teacher Scholar Award to Professor Mohammad Movassaghi. The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program is focused primarily on individual research accomplishments and promise, but evidence of excellence in teaching is also expected. Professor Movassaghi is the third professor in the Department to receive this prestigious award in the past five years. Professor Jianshu Cao received it in 2003 and Professor Alice Y. Ting in 2006. |
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Professor Daniel G. Nocera will direct the Solar Revolution Project (SRP). The SRP, funded by a $10 million gift from the Chesonis Family Foundation, will explore new materials and systems that could dramatically accelerate the availability of solar energy. The SRP will complement and interact closely with other large solar projects at MIT, creating one of the largest solar energy clusters at any research university.
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