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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 the selection of its most recent HHMI Investigators. This year, HHMI chose 56 new investigators from among 1,070 applications. Professor Catherine L. Drennan, Professor of Chemistry and Biology and HHMI Professor, is among five MIT faculty who have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators, bringing the total number of current MIT professors holding the distinction to 19. She is the first HHMI Professor ever to be named an HHMI investigator. |
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Professors Stephen L. Buchwald and Timothy M. Swager have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to the NAS--a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to advancing science and its use for the general welfare--is considered a top honor for those in the science and engineering fields. Established in 1863, the NAS acts as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology. |
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On 16 May 2008, the Royal Society (London) announced its new members. Professor Richard R. Schrock was among the 8 Foreign Members elected. Professor Schrock is distinguished for his seminal contributions to synthetic and mechanistic inorganic and organometallic chemistry and in particular for his development of high oxidation state metal-carbene and carbyne complexes, so-called "Schrock carbene and carbyne complexes," together with studies of the activation of the dinitrogen and its conversion to ammonia. |
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At the MIT Convocation held on May 6, 2008, Professor Sylvia T. Ceyer was honored with The Arthur C. Smith Award. The Award was established in 1996 on the occasion of Dean Smith’s retirement from the position of Dean for Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs. The award honors his service and is presented to a member of the MIT faculty for meaningful contributions and devotion to undergraduate student life and learning at MIT. |
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Christian Schubert, Graduate Student in the Kemp Lab was presented with the 2008 Goodwin Medal at the MIT Convocation held on May 6, 2008. The Goodwin award is given annually to a graduate student whose performance of teaching duties is “conspicuously effective over and above ordinary excellence.” It is an honor bestowed by MIT to a very small number of gifted and committed teachers. This award was established in memory of Henry Manley Goodwin, the first Dean of the Graduate School of MIT. |
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