awards and honors archiveSappok wins 2008 SAE Excellence in Oral Presentation Award - PhD candidate in mechanical engineering Alexander Sappok, who is also a graduate research assistant at the Sloan Automotive Laboratory, has received the 2008 Society of Automotive Engineers Excellence in Oral Presentation Award. October 1, 2008 Broad Institute awarded major grant - Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have received a five-year grant of about $15 million from NIH to map the epigenomes of a variety of medically important cell types, including human embryonic stem cells. October 1, 2008 Celebrate excellence at MIT - Nominations are due Oct. 27 for this year's Excellence Awards, which recognize exceptional accomplishments by support, service, sponsored research, administrative and other academic staff. (The due date is Oct. 20 for Lincoln Lab employees.) October 1, 2008 Awards and honors: Sept. 24, 2008 - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. September 24, 2008 Two MIT faculty win MacArthur 'genius' grants - Two MIT faculty members -- physicist Marin Soljacic and John Ochsendorf, a structural engineer who studies architectural history -- have won 2008 MacArthur Fellowships, commonly known as "genius" grants. September 23, 2008 CMSE wins six-year, $19.2m NSF grant - Amid an increasingly challenging federal funding environment, MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering has won a six-year, $19.2 million NSF grant that will support research, K-12 educational outreach programs and experimental facilities. September 23, 2008 MIT named to AARP top employer list - MIT has once again been named to AARP's list of the 50 Best Employers for Workers Over 50, a distinction the Institute has won three other times in the past five years. September 23, 2008 Three faculty win '08 NIH Pioneer Awards - Three MIT faculty are among 16 scientists nationwide to receive 2008 Pioneer Awards from the National Institutes of Health for their "pioneering -- and possibly transforming -- approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research." September 22, 2008 Stratton medal awarded to Margaret McDermott - Margaret McDermott HM '90 received the Catherine N. Stratton Medal in the Arts during a reception at her home in Dallas. September 19, 2008 Awards and honors: Sept. 17, 2008 - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. September 17, 2008 Awards and honors: Sept. 10, 2008 - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. September 10, 2008 Jacks to accept award from EHS - Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, will be presented an award by the Environment, Health and Safety Office on Sept. 12, at 10:30 a.m., in recognition of the Koch Institute's outstanding EHS performance. September 10, 2008 Kennedy's Portable Light wins Tech Award - A groundbreaking renewable energy project directed by Sheila Kennedy, professor of the practice of architecture at MIT and principal of KVA MATx in Boston, has won an international award for technology that benefits humanity. September 9, 2008 Manalis a winner of new NIH grant - Scott Manalis, associate professor of biological and mechanical engineering, has been awarded a new grant from the National Institutes of Health to promote investigation of novel, unconventional hypotheses. September 3, 2008 MIT class project gets a gold star from Google - A team of MIT students walked away from their spring-semester course with a lot more than just an A and six credits: They just won a $275,000 top prize from Google for the application they developed for the company's new open-source Android cell-phone system. August 29, 2008 MIT alums wins National Medal of Science - Leonard Kleinrock SM '59, PhD '63 and Andrew Viterbi '57, SM '57 have been selected to receive the prestigious National Medal of Science, awarded by President George W. Bush. August 27, 2008 U.S. News ranks MIT 4th overall - MIT ranks fourth among national universities and first in undergraduate engineering, according to U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings released today. In the overall university rankings, MIT shares the number four slot with Stanford. August 22, 2008 HST's Karp among Technology Review's top 35 - MIT instructor Jeffery Karp and several other people with close affiliations to MIT have been named to the TR35, Technology Review Magazine's annual list of 35 outstanding men and women under the age of 35 who exemplify the spirit of innovation. August 19, 2008 Summer awards roundup - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. August 19, 2008 Lincoln Lab team wins aero-astro award - The Robert J. Collier Trophy, awarded for significant achievements in aeronautics or astronautics, has been awarded to the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast public and private-sector team, which includes MIT Lincoln Laboratory. August 5, 2008 MIT awarded $3M for training program in quantum information science - MIT has been awarded a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a pioneering doctoral-study program in the growing field of quantum information science, which poses great potential in supercomputing. August 4, 2008 Team wins $20 million grant for solar research - A team led by MIT and Caltech scientists has been awarded $20 million by the National Science Foundation to help pursue the dream of meeting the world's energy needs with solar-fuel power plants. August 4, 2008 Just A-Mayes-ing - When Anne Mayes departed MIT recently because of health reasons, the pioneering materials science professor left behind more than just a quarter-century history at the Institute: She left an opportunity for future students. July 30, 2008 MIT PhD candidate wins Marconi Young Scholars award - Jay Kumar Sundararajan, a PhD candidate in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT, was named one of four students nationwide to be honored by the Marconi Society as a Young Scholar Award winner. July 25, 2008 Raja Bobbili '08 wins Jack Kent Cooke scholarship - A recent MIT graduate who enrolled in the Institute at the age of 16 will complete a joint MBA and law program on full scholarship as a recipient of the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke award. July 16, 2008 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. July 16, 2008 Six from MIT receive Fulbright scholarships - Four recent MIT graduates and a current PhD student have been awarded Fulbright scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year. Fulbright recipients are selected on the basis of academic achievement and leadership potential in their fields. July 15, 2008 Langer wins major German science award - Institute Professor Robert Langer has been chosen as one of two winners of the 2008 Max Planck Research Award, a 1.5 million-euro science prize funded by the German government. July 10, 2008 Barbara Liskov named Institute Professor - Barbara H. Liskov, the Associate Provost for Faculty Equity and Ford Professor of Engineering, has been named an Institute Professor, the highest honor awarded by MIT's faculty and administration. July 1, 2008 Building 6C's design firm wins prestigious award - The architectural firm responsible for MIT's PDSI (Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Spectroscopy and Infrastructure) Building Project recently received an accolade for its design work on what is now Building 6C. June 27, 2008 A ringing success - Roozbeh Ghaffari helped ring the opening bell to the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, June 20, alongside his team members from Diagnostics for All, which won the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition in May. June 26, 2008 Polymer expert wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize - For Joseph M. DeSimone, the interface between disparate fields and concepts offers the best opportunity for innovation. For his pioneering inventions, entrepreneurship and mentorship, DeSimone has been awarded the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize. June 25, 2008 Berners-Lee named 3Com Founders Professor - Internet pioneer Timothy Berners-Lee has been named the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. June 20, 2008 UROP awards - Awards given by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program for the academic year 2007-2008. June 16, 2008 Langer wins Millennium Technology Prize - MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer has won the Millennium Technology Prize, the world's largest award for technology innovation, for his development of biomaterials for controlled drug release and tissue regeneration. June 11, 2008 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 11, 2008 Literature awards - Awards given in MIT Literature for the academic year 2007-2008. June 10, 2008 Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences awards - Awards given in MIT Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences for the academic year 2007-2008. June 6, 2008 Langer a winner of Spain's Asturias award - Institute Professor Robert Langer is one of five scientists to receive a top Spanish honor, the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. June 5, 2008 Institute Awards 2007-2008 - Awards and recognition of MIT students, faculty and staff for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Awards: Key to abbreviations - The names of some academic departments and programs have been shortened to save space in awards listings. This is a key of the abbreviations. June 4, 2008 Anthropology awards - Awards given in MIT Anthropology for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Architecture awards - Awards given in MIT Architecture for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Arts awards - Awards given in MIT Arts for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Biology awards - Awards given in MIT Biology for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Brain & Cognitive Sciences awards - Awards given in MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Chemical engineering awards - Awards given in MIT Chemical Engineering for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Chemistry awards - Awards given in MIT Chemistry for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Civil & Environmental Engineering awards - Awards given in MIT Civil & Environmental Engineering for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Economics awards - Awards given in MIT Economics for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Electrical Engineering & Computer Science awards - Awards given in MIT Electrical Engineering & Computer Science for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 School of Engineering awards - Awards given in the MIT School of Engineering for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Engineering Systems Division awards - Awards given in the MIT Engineering Systems Division for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Experimental Studies Group awards - Awards given in the MIT Experimental Studies Group for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Foreign Languages & Literatures awards - Awards given in MIT Foreign Languages & Literatures for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 IDEAS Competition awards - Awards given in the MIT IDEAS Competition for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Center for International Studies awards - Awards given in the MIT Center for International Studies for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Mathematics awards - Awards given in MIT Mathematics for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Mechanical Engineering awards - Awards given in MIT Mechanical Engineering for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Nuclear Science & Engineering awards - Awards given in MIT Nuclear Science & Engineering for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Phi Beta Kappa awards - Awards given in Phi Beta Kappa for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Physics awards - Awards given in MIT Physics for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 MIT Public Service Center awards - Awards given in the MIT Public Service Center for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Quarter Century Club welcomes new members - With MIT President Susan Hockfield as the featured speaker, the Quarter Century Club inducted 127 new members at a May 7 luncheon in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex (Building 46). June 4, 2008 MIT Sloan School of Business & Management awards - Awards given in the MIT Sloan School of Business & Management for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Division of Student Life awards - Awards given in the MIT Division of Student Life for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Department of Urban Studies and Planning awards - Awards given in MIT Urban Studies and Planning for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Awards Convocation - Awards presented at the MIT Awards Convocation on May 6, 2008. June 4, 2008 Department of Materials Science and Engineering awards - Awards given in MIT Materials Science and Engineering for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics awards - Awards given in MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008 Awards & Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 4, 2008 Four from MIT win coveted Gates scholarships - Four MIT students preparing for careers in affordable energy, public health, mathematics and biotechnology have been awarded full scholarships for graduate study at the University of Cambridge, England, by the Gates Cambridge Trust. June 2, 2008 Colleagues honor Professor Lisa Steiner of biology - Lisa Steiner, a professor of immunology and the first woman faculty member to join the Department of Biology at MIT in 1967, was honored at a special luncheon by her friends and colleagues at MIT on May 22. May 30, 2008 CEHS awards 2008 research prizes - Eight graduate students and post-docs received awards May 22 for their research in the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences. May 30, 2008 Five MIT faculty named HHMI investigators - Five MIT faculty have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators, bringing the total number of current MIT professors holding the distinction to 19. May 27, 2008 Bras wins faculty's Killian Award - Rafael Bras, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who pioneered the field of hydrologic science, is MIT's James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award winner for 2008-2009. May 27, 2008 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. May 21, 2008 Incoming frosh numero 'uno' on invention list - Teenager Ben Gulak got a bit of a head start on his training in mechanical engineering. As an incoming freshman at MIT, he's already been featured on the cover of Popular Science magazine for having come up with the year's top invention. May 14, 2008 Awards and honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. May 14, 2008 Ghoniem to receive $10M KAUST award - Ahmed F. Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected to receive a $10 million, five-year award from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). May 12, 2008 Four students win $25,000 prize in Google competition - Four MIT undergraduates shared a $25,000 prize as round one winners in Google's Android Developer Challenge, a worldwide open competition for software developers based off Google's Android software stack for mobile applications. May 12, 2008 MIT cyclists win Division II national championship - The MIT Cycling Team won the 2008 Division II national road racing championships after a weekend of exceptional performances by its men's and women's teams. May 12, 2008 Alexander Rich receives prestigious Welch Award - For his pioneering work that has helped scientists unlock the mysteries of RNA and DNA, as well as important scientific discoveries that have opened up new fields of science, Alexander Rich had been named the 38th recipient of the Welch Award in Chemistry. May 9, 2008 MIT Sloan Board Fellows honored - Five MIT Sloan School of Management MBAs were honored during an inaugural-year celebration of the school's new MIT Sloan Board Fellows program on Tuesday, May 6. May 9, 2008 Three from MIT in top 100 intellectuals list - Three of MIT's thinkers--Noam Chomsky, Esther Duflo and Neil Gershenfeld--have been named among 100 "global intellectuals" by Prospect Magazine. The three are cited, respectively, for their work on foreign policy, poverty and quantum computing. May 1, 2008 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. April 30, 2008 Seven from MIT elected to NAS - Seven MIT faculty members are among the 72 newly elected members and 18 foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. April 29, 2008 Arts, sciences fellows named - Eight MIT faculty members are among the 212 new fellows recently elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. April 28, 2008 MIT Arab students honor Nobel laureate, others - The MIT Arab Students Organization honored Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail at its fifth annual Science and Technology Awards Banquet on Saturday, April 26. April 28, 2008 Submit awards for commencement issue - The MIT News Office will publish the 2008 Institute Awards issue in print (MIT Tech Talk) and online on June 4 this year. The annual special section lists the names of winners of annual awards, by department, along with photographs where available. April 24, 2008 Innovator receives sustainability award - Dr. Martin Fisher is transforming the lives of poor African farmers through a combination of technological invention and business development. For his work, Fisher has been named the 2008 recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability. April 23, 2008 Faculty OK double majors, CMS SB program - The faculty voted unanimously to allow double majors and to make Comparative Media Studies a permanent SB program at their April 16 meeting. April 22, 2008 Jacks named president-elect of AACR - Tyler E. Jacks, director of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, has been named president-elect of the American Association for Cancer Research. April 14, 2008 MIT's Makan wins Rome Prize - MIT professor Keeril Makan, a musician and composer acclaimed for his technique of layering recorded and live sounds, has been awarded the prestigious Rome Prize by the American Academy in Rome for 2008-2009. April 11, 2008 Three MIT faculty named Guggenheim fellows - Three MIT professors were named Guggenheim fellows for their "stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment," the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced this month. April 11, 2008 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. April 9, 2008 Dower probes 'cultures of war' in lecture - John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, teased out the threads connecting cultures of war from individual nations' densely woven rhetoric about victory in his Killian award lecture, presented Monday, April 7, at MIT. April 9, 2008 Feld wins major spectroscopy award - Michael Feld, director of MIT's George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, has been chosen to receive the 2008 William F. Meggers Award. April 9, 2008 Langer a finalist for Millennium Technology Prize - MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer has been chosen as a finalist for the Millennium Technology Prize, the world's largest prize for technology innovation. MIT alumus Andrew Viterbi '56, SM '57, founder of Qualcomm, is also a finalist. April 8, 2008 Junot Díaz wins Pulitzer for 'Oscar Wao' - MIT professor Junot Diaz' acclaimed debut novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," enjoyed another wondrous round of literary praise today, winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction just one month after receiving the National Book Critics Circle Award. April 7, 2008 Awards & Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. April 2, 2008 Dower to deliver Killian Award lecture - John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, will speak on "Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq" at the 36th annual Killian Award lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, in Kirsch Auditorium. April 2, 2008 Two MIT student projects win peace grants - Two MIT student projects to promote peace in Sudan and in Bangladesh have won Davis Projects for Peace grants of $10,000 each. April 1, 2008 Engineering tops U.S. News graduate rankings - MIT's School of Engineering was again ranked No. 1 nationwide in U.S. News & World Report's annual evaluation of American graduate school programs, released online Friday and available at newsstands Monday, March 31. March 28, 2008 MIT third overall in Putnam math competition - MIT's math team made a strong showing at the William Lowell Putnam intercollegiate mathematics competition, finishing in third place. Two MIT math majors finished in the top six: sophomore Qingchun Ren and junior Xuancheng Shao. March 27, 2008 'Just Jerusalem' competition winners announced - MIT's Jerusalem 2050 Program announced today the winners of its global Just Jerusalem competition, in which participants were asked to focus on 'just' the city as a place where, by mid-century, its citizenries co-exist in peace. March 21, 2008 Awards & Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. March 19, 2008 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. March 13, 2008 Peers name Benedict 'Pillar of the Profession' - Dean for Student Life Larry G. Benedict has been honored as a 2008 Pillar of the Profession by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Foundation. March 11, 2008 Nobel winner Wieman helps mark MacVicar Day - Nobel winner and MIT alumnus Carl E. Wieman marked MacVicar Day, MIT's annual celebration of undergraduate education, with a challenge to teachers: To lecture is human, to engage divine. March 10, 2008 Book critics honor Díaz with top novel prize - MIT professor Junot Díaz has won the National Book Critics' Circle Award for fiction, for his first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." March 7, 2008 Lawrence project puts MIT on U.S. service honor roll - The Corporation for National and Community Service has named MIT to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth. March 4, 2008 MacVicar Day, Institute Awards deadline approaching - MacVicar Day 2008 will be held Friday, March 7, and Institute Awards Convocation nominations will be accepted through March 14. March 4, 2008 MIT student targets antibiotic resistance - MIT graduate student and synthetic biologist Timothy Lu has received the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventing processes that promise to combat bacterial infections by enhancing the effectiveness of antibiotics at killing bacteria. February 27, 2008 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. February 27, 2008 Seven junior faculty named Sloan Research Fellows - Seven junior MIT faculty have won 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellows, which are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science. February 25, 2008 Science journalism: bright future ahead - "There's never been a better time to become a journalist," declared Dianne Lynch, dean of the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, at a MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowships symposium last week on the future of science journalism. February 25, 2008 Five win MLK Leadership Awards - Five members of the MIT community have won Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Awards for 2008 in recognition of service that reflects the late civil rights leader's ideals and vision. February 22, 2008 Awards and honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. February 13, 2008 Profiles in excellence at MIT - MIT is known for bringing out the best in its students academically, but that ambition also applies to athletics. MIT's volleyball teams have achieved stellar success, and much of the credit goes to Coach Paul Dill, who will receive a 2008 Excellence Award for Bringing Out the Best. February 13, 2008 Suresh to receive 2008 Eringen Medal - The Society of Engineering Science has chosen Subra Suresh, Dean of the School of Engineering and Ford Professor of Engineering, to receive the A.C. Eringen Medal for 2008, in recognition of "sustained outstanding achievements in engineering science." February 11, 2008 2008 Burchard scholars selected - Twenty-six sophomores and juniors have been selected as Burchard scholars in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences for 2008. February 6, 2008 MIT neuroscientists to study autism and dyslexia - Two researchers at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research will head an ambitious new project to study the origins of autism and dyslexia, supported by an $8.5M grant from the Ellison Medical Foundation. February 6, 2008 Weinberg named first recipient of Swedish science prize - Professor Robert A. Weinberg of MIT's Department of Biology this week became the first recipient of a new Swedish science prize, in recognition of his cancer research. January 31, 2008 Stubbe honored by NAS - JoAnne Stubbe, Novartis Professor of Chemistry and professor of biology, has been awarded the National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences. January 30, 2008 Five from MIT receive NARSAD awards - Ann M. Graybiel, the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Neuroscience, has been selected by NARSAD: The Mental Health Research Association to receive its Distinguished Investigator Award. Graybiel is one of 23 leading scientists to receive the award. January 22, 2008 Awards and honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. January 16, 2008 American Mathematical Society honors Lusztig - George Lusztig, the Norbert Wiener Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2008 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement. January 16, 2008 MIT research among Nature magazine's best of 2007 - Nature's editors have picked their favorite 18 research papers of 2007, including three studies involving MIT scientists. Topics of the MIT papers include the search for extrasolar planets, a new technique for weighing single cells and the future of irregular verbs. January 14, 2008 Architecture students, alumnus saluted by magazine - Wallpaper, a prestigious international design magazine, has listed two MIT graduate students in architecture and a 2006 alumnus of MIT's master's program in architecture in its global directory, "110 Up and Coming Graduates" in art and design. December 27, 2007 MIT involved in two of top 10 physics stories of 2007 - Two research projects involving MIT physicists are among the top ten physics stories of the year, as ranked by the American Institute of Physics. December 19, 2007 Awards and honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. December 12, 2007 HST faculty member wins BMW Science Award - Ali Khademhosseini has won first prize in the doctoral thesis category of the 2007 BMW Science Award competition. The award was presented to six young scientists, three in the doctoral and three in the bachelor's/master's thesis categories. December 12, 2007 Zwierlein wins physics award for superfluidity work - Martin Zwierlein, assistant professor of physics, was recently awarded the Klung-Wilhelmy-Weberbank Prize for physics. He was honored for superfluidity discoveries made as an MIT graduate student working with MIT Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle. December 5, 2007 Awards and honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. December 5, 2007 War-injured boy inspired new Marshall Scholar - Ali Alhassani, an MIT senior who discovered his passion for medicine through the friendship of a war-injured Iraqi boy, has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship, and will study health policy, planning and financing in London. December 4, 2007 Awards and honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. November 28, 2007 MIT senior wins Rhodes Scholarship - Melis Anahtar, an MIT senior who aspires to become a physician-scientist, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. Anahtar, of Bethesda, Md., is a mechanical engineering major with a minor in biomedical engineering. November 27, 2007 Faculty, alumna win United States Artists grants - Three current MIT faculty members and an MIT alumna have been named United States Artists (USA) Fellows. The USA grants program supports a diverse array of living American artists in a wide variety of artistic genres. November 20, 2007 Former students honor Ross with $100K prize - Linked by the "transforming influence" he has had on their lives and careers, more than 50 former students of MIT Professor of Financial Economics Stephen A. Ross unveiled a major new prize in his name to honor outstanding papers in his field. November 14, 2007 Time magazine honors MIT for inventiveness - Six MIT inventions and two MIT inventors were celebrated as the best of 2007 in Time magazine's annual survey of the world's most promising--and sometimes startling--visions of the future, as seen by scientists, engineers, educators and designers. November 14, 2007 MIT pair honored for biopsy advance - Two MIT graduate students reached the finals of last week's Collegiate Inventors Competition, organized by the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation, for their work on a device that makes needle biopsies less invasive. November 6, 2007 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. October 31, 2007 Seven from MIT named AAAS Fellows - The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded the distinction of Fellow to 471 members, including seven MIT faculty members. October 26, 2007 Dresselhaus wins prize from American Physical Society - MIT Institute Professor Mildred Dresselhaus has been named winner of the 2008 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize from the American Physical Society "for pioneering contributions to the understanding of electronic properties of materials." October 25, 2007 MIT student inventors: Apply for $30,000 prize - The Lemelson-MIT Program has invited currently enrolled MIT seniors and graduate student inventors to apply for its annual $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventiveness. The application deadline is Dec. 18. October 24, 2007 Bazant among Popular Science's 'Brilliant Ten' - Popular Science has named Martin Bazant, associate professor of applied mathematics, one of its "Brilliant Ten" scientists for 2007. Bazant was awarded the distinction for his theoretical work on microfluidics, which can be used to build "labs on a chip." October 24, 2007 Deshpande Center announces fall 2007 grants - The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT today announced it is awarding $1,030,000 in grants to ten MIT research teams currently working on emerging technologies. October 22, 2007 Yanik wins Packard fellowship for neural microchip work - Mehmet Fatih Yanik has stopped light in its tracks and created a self-contained biological laboratory on the surface of a microchip. Now he is focusing on learning how to keep nerve cells from degenerating and getting damaged ones to regenerate. October 17, 2007 Rafael Bras to receive AGU's Horton Medal - Professor Rafael Bras has been named this year's winner of the Robert E. Horton Medal, the highest award given to hydrologists by the American Geophysical Union. Bras is being recognized for his contributions to the geophysical aspects of hydrology. October 17, 2007 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. October 17, 2007 MIT Nobelists - Current and former members of the MIT community who have won the Nobel Prize. October 15, 2007 Institute of Medicine elects Brown - Emery N. Brown, M.D., a professor in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine. October 13, 2007 Amon, Golub win cancer prize - MIT Professor Angelika Amon and Todd R. Golub of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard will share the 2007 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, an award of $150,000, with Gregory J. Hannon from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. October 3, 2007 MIT appoints 23 faculty to named professorships - Twenty-three MIT faculty members have been appointed to named professorships. All are effective July 1, 2007. September 28, 2007 HR @ Your Service - This is what you should know about Anne Deveau. Her colleagues adore her. She consistently goes above and beyond the call of duty. She is a pleasure to be around. September 27, 2007 MIT alums win MacArthur 'genius' awards - MIT alumni Saul Griffith (S.M. 2001, Ph.D. 2004) and Yoky Matsuoka (S.M. 1995, Ph.D. 1998) have been awarded 2007 MacArthur fellowships, more commonly known as "genius" grants. September 25, 2007 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. September 19, 2007 Four MIT faculty win NIH awards - Professor Emery Brown will receive a 2007 Pioneer Award from NIH, while Professors Ed Boyden, Alan Jasanoff and Mehmet Fatih Yanik will be honored with New Innovator Awards. All four were cited by NIH for their "exceptionally innovative" research. September 18, 2007 East meets West - In the 26 years since he first arrived at MIT as a freshman, V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai has earned four MIT degrees and started two multimillion dollar companies. September 17, 2007 Herr wins $250,000 Heinz Award - Professor Hugh Herr, a double amputee whose work has led to the development of new prosthetic innovations that merge body and machine, has won the 13th annual Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment. September 12, 2007 MIT atop U.S. News undergrad engineering list - MIT's undergraduate engineering program remained the best in the nation this year, according to U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings guide released Aug. 17. The school has held the top spot for engineering for the last six years. August 17, 2007 Six from MIT win Fulbrights - Six MIT graduate students have been awarded Fulbright scholarships for the academic year 2007-2008. The recipients were selected by the U.S. international education program on the basis of their academic achievement and leadership potential. August 17, 2007 MIT faculty, alumni among Technology Review's top young innovators - Several MIT faculty and alumni have been named to the TR35, Technology Review Magazine's annual compilation of the 35 top innovators worldwide under the age of 35. August 15, 2007 MIT trio receives top U.S. science, technology honors - President George W. Bush presented the nation's highest science and technology honors Friday to MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest, biomedical engineer Robert S. Langer and atomic physicist Daniel Kleppner. July 27, 2007 Gordon Foundation plans $20 million gift to MIT - The Gordon Foundation has announced its intention to make a gift of $20 million to the MIT School of Engineering to launch a major program to prepare students for engineering leadership. The gift will fund an annual conference, workshops, and publications. July 20, 2007 Development Initiative wins Lemelson Grant - The Lemelson Foundation has awarded the MIT International Development Initiative (IDI) a grant of $650,000 to support opportunities for MIT students to work on sustainable solutions to problems faced by community groups in the developing world. July 18, 2007 MIT encryption pioneer wins Marconi Prize - MIT Professor Ronald L. Rivest, who helped develop one of the world's most widely used Internet security systems, has been named the 2007 Marconi Fellow and prize-winner for his pioneering work in the field of cryptography, computer and network security. July 17, 2007 MIT National Science, Technology Laureates - President Emeritus Charles M. Vest, pioneering biomedical engineer Robert S. Langer and groundbreaking atomic physicist Daniel Kleppner have been awarded the nation's highest technology and science honors. July 16, 2007 MIT a winner in inaugural climate change grants - The New York-based Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced today that it awarded the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) a $500,000 grant for a project analyzing policies relevant to U.S. climate policy design. July 5, 2007 MIT biology, physics and nuclear science professors honored - Thomas Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Biology, Daniel Kleppner, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, and Michael Golay, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, awarded honors in their fields. July 3, 2007 Levenson wins science film award - Thomas Levenson, associate professor of science writing at MIT, has won the inaugural Walter P. Kistler Science Documentary Film Award for his work on the NOVA miniseries "Origins." June 27, 2007 MIT Press wins prestigious international award - Ellen W. Faran, Director of the MIT Press, has received the 2007 Grinzane-Cavour Award in recognition of MIT Press' contributions, both substantial and ethical, to the publication of scientific and humanistic titles. June 26, 2007 CEHS awards Znaty research prizes - The Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS) at MIT held its annual poster session on May 31 in Morss Hall in Walker Memorial. The session highlighted the work of 16 of the center's affiliated labs from nine MIT departments and featured more than 50 posters. June 22, 2007 Buehler of CEE receives national engineering honor - Markus J. Buehler, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, is one of 83 young engineers invited by the National Academy of Engineering to attend its 2007 Frontiers of Engineering meeting. June 21, 2007 Mechanical Engineering Professors receive Khan, Martore awards - Two professor of mechanical engineering have been recognized for their work. June 20, 2007 Awards: Key to abbreviations - The names of some academic departments and programs have been shortened to save space in awards listings. This is a key of the abbreviations. June 6, 2007 Institute Awards 2006-2007 - Awards and recognition of MIT students, faculty and staff. June 6, 2007 Aeronautics and astronautics awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Architecture - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Arts awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Brain & Cognitive Sciences awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Chemistry awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Biology awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Civil & Environmental Engineering awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Center for International Studies awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Experimental Study Group awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Engineering Systems Division awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Nuclear Science & Engineering awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Economics awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Foreign Languages & Literature awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Sloan School of Business & Management awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Graduate Student Council awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Excellence awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Literature awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Ideas competition awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Physics awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 MIT Public Service Center awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Awards Convocation - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Mathematics awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Mechanical engineering awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 School of Engineering awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Undergraduate advising awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007 D'Arbeloff, alumni fund innovative courses - More than $1.1 million has been awarded to 22 faculty groups developing new subjects, thanks to the d'Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education and the Alumni Fund. June 6, 2007 MIT students build bike for disabled kids - A team of MIT students in Course 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) built the Revolution bicycle, designed to help developmentally disabled children learn to ride a bike. June 6, 2007 Summons wins Humboldt Award - Roger E. Summons, a professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, will receive a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stifung Foundation in Germany. June 1, 2007 Honoring Dean Colbert upon his retirement - A "Victory Party" to honor Dean for Graduate Students Isaac M. Colbert upon his retirement will be held Tuesday, May 29 at Walker Memorial. The party will run from 4 to 6 p.m. May 29, 2007 Quarter Century Club welcomes new members - With MIT President Susan Hockfield as the featured speaker, the Quarter Century Club (QCC) inducted 183 new members at a May 8 luncheon in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex (Building 46). May 25, 2007 Cutting edge artwork - Neri Oxman received one of two second-place Schnitzer Arts prizes. Oxman's interdisciplinary research is based in architecture, engineering, computation, biology and ecology. May 23, 2007 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. May 23, 2007 Schnitzer Prize winners exhibit artwork - Does ice cream taste better when eaten from a spoon made from a cast of your own tongue? Hope Ginsburg, winner of the top prize in the 2007 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts, believes it does. May 23, 2007 Student's elegant, relentless machine wins robo-fest - In a raucous battle of the 'bots that exuded energy squared, senior Stephanie Sidelko took top honors May 9 in MIT's annual Design 2.007 contest when she and her machine outwitted, outlasted and outmaneuvered the tough competition. May 22, 2007 Suresh awarded 2007 European Materials Medal - Subra Suresh, Ford Professor of Engineering and former head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, is the recipient of the 2007 European Materials Medal from the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). May 16, 2007 MIT arts awards honor musicians and actors - MIT student actors and musicians were recognized for their accomplishments in the arts at two ceremonies in May. May 16, 2007 MIT TechTV Expo cheers winners, offers lessons - Videos published as part of the MIT Tech Video Showcase will be on display at the MIT TechTV Expo on May 17. The event begins with an open house in the student lounge near Lobby 10 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors to the event can also learn the basics of TechTV, an MIT video-sharing web site. May 15, 2007 Aero-astro team takes first place in competition - A team of MIT students in aeronautics and astronautics has taken first place in the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics' annual Design/Build/Fly competition, ending Oklahoma State's three-year reign. May 14, 2007 Student teams 'Wiffle' their way to Fenway - Five members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity got the chance of a lifetime when they took to the field at Fenway Park for the "Wiffle Your Way to Fenway" championship held May 8. May 14, 2007 Aero/astro alum wins Annenberg fellowship - The prestigious Annenberg Fellowship has been awarded for the first time to an MIT graduate, Katonio A. Butler. Butler will spend a year at Eton College, where he will act as an American "ambassador" to the 1,300 students, aged 13 to 18. May 8, 2007 Twelve MIT faculty are elected to AAAS - Twelve MIT faculty members are among the 203 new Fellows and 24 new Foreign Honorary Members recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. May 8, 2007 Waitz awarded Hunsaker appointment - Professor Ian Waitz has been named the first Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Waitz continues Hunsaker's pioneering aviation spirit with his work which relates particularly to environmental issues. May 2, 2007 Submit awards for commencement issue - Tech Talk will publish the 2007 awards issue in print and online on June 6. The annual special section lists the names of winners of annual awards, by department, along with photographs where available. May 2, 2007 Bonvillian wins IEEE public service award - William B. Bonvillian, director of the MIT Washington, D.C. office, has been presented with a 2006 Distinguished Public Service Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE-USA). May 2, 2007 EurekaFest kicks off - The Lemelson-MIT Program, in partnership with the Museum of Science, Boston, kicks off EurekaFest, a multiday celebration of activities to fuel the inventive spirit. EurekaFest events will be held May 2-5 at MIT and the Museum of Science. May 1, 2007 Five from MIT elected to NAS - Five MIT faculty members are among the 72 newly elected members and 18 foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences--an honor that recognizes their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. May 1, 2007 Quarter Century Club induction will be held May 8 - The MIT Quarter Century Club induction ceremony and luncheon for new members will be held this year on Tuesday, May 8. April 30, 2007 Horvitz urges support for basic science - MIT Nobel prize-winning Professor Robert Horvitz outlined his work with "Worms, Life and Death: Cell Suicide in Development and Disease" and his concerns for the future of basic research in the annual Killian Award lecture delivered April 24. April 26, 2007 Mel King Fellow's advocacy opens doors - As a community organizer in New York City, Lee Farrow worked with formerly homeless people to improve their living conditions. As a Mel King Fellow, she continues to search for the most effective ways of helping residents of urban communities. April 20, 2007 Faculty honor Virginia Tech victims, applaud Edgerton winner, in April meeting - The faculty observed a moment of silence at the April 18 faculty meeting for the victims of the tragedy at Virginia Tech. Some faculty requested a system for following up on students referred to student services while maintaining the students' privacy. April 20, 2007 Arab Students' Organization hosts awards - Arab-American professionals and college students from the Boston area will participate in the annual Arab-American Science and Technology Awards Banquet at the University Park Hotel at MIT from 7 to 10 p.m. on April 14th. The ceremony honors this year's awardees. April 12, 2007 Five from MIT are Guggenheim Fellows - Five members of the MIT faculty have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for 2007. They are Edmund Bertschinger, Erica Funkhouser, Michel X. Goemans, Erika Naginski, and Anne Whiston Spirn. April 11, 2007 Cohen wins inaugural mentoring award - Robert E. Cohen, the St. Laurent Professor of Chemical Engineering and co-director of the DuPont-MIT Alliance, has been selected as the first recipient of the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising. April 11, 2007 Jacobs receives Levitan Prize in the Humanities - Deborah K. Fitzgerald, the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, has announced that the 2007 James A. (1945) and Ruth Levitan Prize in the Humanities has been awarded to Associate Professor Meg Jacobs of the history faculty. April 6, 2007 Bridge work - A team of eight undergraduates in civil and environmental engineering won the award for fastest construction and took second place overall in the regional Steel Bridge Competition held March 16-17 at the University of Connecticut. April 4, 2007 MIT programmers strike gold - A team of MIT programmers won a gold medal in the world finals of the 31st Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, held mid-March in Tokyo. April 3, 2007 Susskind receives Global Environment Award - Lawrence E. Susskind, the Ford Professor of Urban Studies and Environmental Studies in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, has received this year's International Association for Impact Assessment Global Environment Award. April 3, 2007 Swager wins $500K Lemelson-MIT Prize - Timothy M. Swager, head of the Department of Chemistry, is the winner of the $500,000 2007 Lemelson-MIT Prize for inventing sensors that detect vapors of common bomb-making chemicals such as TNT. April 2, 2007 Engineer, humanitarian wins Truman Fellowship - MIT junior Alia Whitney-Johnson, who launched a program to help Sri Lankan victims of rape and incest, has won a 2007 Harry S Truman Scholarship, which she vows to use for graduate studies in sustainable development. March 29, 2007 MIT ranks 7th in nation for parents' top picks - When parents of college-bound children dream about the best college for their children--if price and acceptance were no obstacle--MIT ranks among the top 10 choices. March 29, 2007 Ellison is named inaugural Palm Professor of Economics - Professor Glenn Ellison, a leader in the fields of economic theory, industrial organization and financial economics, has been named the inaugural holder of the Gregory K. Palm '70 Professorship in Economics. March 26, 2007 Douglas receives Black History Maker award - Dr. Frank Douglas, professor of the practice at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, is one of five recipients of the Associated Black Charities' 2007 Black History Makers Award. March 26, 2007 MIT biodiesel student group wins national contest - The Biodiesel@MIT team was 10 minutes into its presentation--a talk the group had given many times to drum up support for bringing a biodiesel processor to campus--when there was a loud knock on the conference room door. March 16, 2007 Two from MIT win Franklin Institute Awards - MIT Professor Emeritus Klaus Biemann and Professor Merton C. Flemings have won 2007 Franklin Institute Awards, joining the august company of past winners including Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Orville Wright. March 15, 2007 Seven research teams win Deshpande grants - The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT has announced it is awarding $628,000 in grants to seven MIT research teams. March 14, 2007 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. March 14, 2007 Writing contest seeks submissions - The Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes Competition, sponsored by the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, is accepting manuscript submissions from undergraduate and graduate students. March 14, 2007 Nominations open for Awards Convocation - At MIT, you get to witness greatness on a daily basis; now is your chance to make sure the outstanding people and projects at MIT get the recognition they deserve. March 14, 2007 Excellence Awards ceremony applauds MIT staff - The annual MIT Excellence Awards ceremony was held Feb. 28 in Kresge Auditorium. Seventeen members of the Institute staff were recognized. March 7, 2007 MacVicar Day celebrates diversity in strategies - On March 2, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows sponsored MIT's annual recognition of undergraduate education with a roundtable discussion, during which students, faculty and alumni shared learning strategies and tools. March 6, 2007 MacVicar Day highlights student learning - MacVicar Day 2007 will be held on Friday, March 2. Provost L. Rafael Reif will announce the new MacVicar Faculty Fellows following the meeting of the MIT Corporation. February 27, 2007 Nominations for mentoring awards announced - Nominations of individuals who support and guide new generations of entrepreneurs are being accepted by the MIT Sloan School of Management for the 2007 Third Annual Adolf F. Monosson Prize for Entrepreneurship Mentoring. February 27, 2007 SHASS selects 26 Burchard Scholars - Twenty-six sophomores and juniors have been selected as Burchard Scholars in the School of Humanities and Social Science (SHASS) for 2007. February 26, 2007 MIT Sloan alum Michael Kaiser wins 2007 Muh award - Michael M. Kaiser, the "turnaround artist" who led the financial revitalization of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the American Ballet Theatre and other arts organizations, is the recipient of the 2007 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award. February 26, 2007 Dresselhaus wins L'Oréal-UNESCO Award - MIT Institute Professor Mildred Dresselhaus is the North American winner of a 2007 L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science. Dresselhaus was selected for "conceptualizing the creation of carbon nanotubes." February 22, 2007 ACM names three from MIT for computer science - The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized three MIT researchers among 41 of its members for their contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology. February 22, 2007 List Center wins two awards - The List Visual Arts Center is has been chosen to receive two awards from the New England chapter of the International Association of Art Critics, USA (AICA/USA) for the region's best visual art exhibitions during the 2005-2006 season. February 20, 2007 Vest awarded Abelson Prize for service to science and society - Charles M. Vest, MIT president emeritus, has been awarded the 2006 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize for his outstanding contributions to public policy, education and university research. February 15, 2007 Seventeen will receive Excellence Awards - There are undoubtedly many unsung heroes at MIT, but one who stands out will receive this year's Excellence Award in the Unsung Hero category: Gary Pascucci, a driver at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. February 14, 2007 Academy of Engineering elects 5 from MIT - Five MIT researchers are among the 64 new members of the National Academy of Engineering. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. February 14, 2007 Lemelson winner designs for public safety - Nathan Ball, graduate student in mechanical engineering and this year's winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, has invented a device that makes the fantasy of leaping tall buildings in a single bound come close to reality. February 14, 2007 HHMI awardee committed to biochemistry, outreach - Irene C. Blat, a research technician at the Broad Institute, has received one of five 2007 Gilliam Fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, supporting up to five years of study toward a Ph.D. in the life sciences. February 13, 2007 Two MIT profs win DOE's Lawrence Award - MIT professors Arup K. Chakraborty and Moungi Bawendi are among eight winners of the 2007 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award from the U.S. Department of Energy. February 9, 2007 Mrowka receives Veblen geometry prize - Professor of mathematics Tomasz Mrowka received the 2007 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, one of the highest honors in the field of geometry, on Jan. 6. February 7, 2007 Seager honored for extrasolar planet research - Sara Seager, the Ellen Swallow Richards Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, has won the 2007 Helen B. Warner Prize from the American Astronomical Society. February 5, 2007 Team develops nanoparticles to battle cancer - On a quest to modernize cancer treatment and diagnosis, an MIT professor and her colleagues have created new nanoparticles that mimic blood platelets. Their goal? To send these to carry out different medical missions inside the body. February 1, 2007 Lauffenburger wins 2007 Galletti award - Professor Douglas Lauffenburger, head of the Biological Engineering Division, has won the 2007 Pierre Galletti Award from the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. January 26, 2007 CRE director named 'most influential researcher' - David Geltner, director of the MIT Center for Real Estate, has been named the most influential researcher in the real estate field from 2000 to 2004, an honor that reflects his long-term productivity investigating topics of interest to the real estate community. January 25, 2007 High-flying fame for Hoffman - Jeffrey Hoffman, a professor of the practice in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 5. January 23, 2007 Science writer awarded physics prize - Marcia Bartusiak, a visiting professor in MIT's graduate program in science writing, joins venerable physicists in receiving the American Institute of Physics' Gemant Award. January 16, 2007 Hynes named scientific governor of U.K. charity - Professor Richard O. Hynes has been named scientific governor of the United Kingdom's largest charity, the Wellcome Trust, effective Jan. 1. January 12, 2007 Tim Berners-Lee receives Draper Prize - The man credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Timothy J. Berners-Lee, will receive the 2007 Charles Stark Draper Prize, the $500,000 annual award and gold medallion considered "engineering's Nobel Prize." January 5, 2007 Drela elected fellow of AIAA for aircraft design - Mark Drela, the Terry J. Kohler Professor of Fluid Dynamics in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. December 29, 2006 Sengupta wins $4M breast cancer award - Shiladitya Sengupta, assistant professor of medicine at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and Brigham and Women's Hospital, has won one of three 2006 Era of Hope Scholar Awards from the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program. December 21, 2006 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. December 20, 2006 MIT visual studies program receives $40K NEA grant - MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support interdisciplinary residency programs. December 14, 2006 Austrian honor for Zhang - Shuguang Zhang, associate director of MIT's Center for Biomedical Engineering, recently received Austria's 2006 Wilhelm Exner Medal for outstanding contributions to science and technology from the president of Austria, Heinz Fischer. December 8, 2006 Broad wins $200M for genomics research - The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has announced an award of nearly $200 million from the National Human Genome Research Institute to support applications and enhancements of large-scale DNA sequencing for biomedicine. December 6, 2006 Marshall Scholar focuses on technology, altruism - Graduate student Finale Doshi, a campus leader with an extensive record of service to the Institute and the world, has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship for study at the University of Cambridge for 2007. December 5, 2006 Ogunnika wins first MIT-CIMIT fellowship - The Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) and the MIT School of Engineering have recently announced the awarding of the first MIT-CIMIT Medical Engineering Fellowship to MIT graduate student Olumuyiwa Ogunnika. December 4, 2006 'Ashdown House' documentary wins award - Two graduate students in the School of Architecture and Planning have won a prize for best history documentary at the 2006 CampusMovieFest, the world's largest student film festival, for a video documenting the history of MIT's Ashdown House. December 4, 2006 AAAS names four fellows from MIT faculty - The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded the distinction of Fellow to 449 members, including four MIT faculty members. November 27, 2006 MIT chemist studies how electrons behave - Troy Van Voorhis likes to watch how things work. This natural curiosity led to his current research on the behavior of electrons, which will now be further supported by a 2006 David and Lucile Packard Foundation fellowship. November 17, 2006 MIT receives major grant from the Ludwig Fund - A $20 million grant to MIT from the Ludwig Fund, a major philanthropic foundation primarily focused on cancer research, will enable MIT researchers to launch a major attack on the fundamental problem of cancer metastasis. November 14, 2006 Study: DUSP is nation's best - A recent national study of graduate programs in urban planning has ranked MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning the best in the nation. November 8, 2006 Scientific American names Belcher top researcher - Professor Angela Belcher has been named Research Leader of the Year by Scientific American. Three other MIT researchers are also among the magazine's annual list of the nation's top 50 technology leaders. November 6, 2006 Lander named one of America's 'best leaders' - Professor Eric Lander, founder and director of the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, is featured as one of America's 20 best leaders in the Oct. 30, 2006 issue of U.S. News and World Report. October 27, 2006 Lemelson-MIT announces InvenTeams grants - The Lemelson-MIT Program has awarded grants of up to $10,000 each to 20 'InvenTeams'--teams of high school students and teachers across the country who have invented practical solutions to real-world problems of their own choosing. October 26, 2006 23 faculty members awarded tenure - The Corporation's Executive Committee approved 23 faculty members for promotion to tenure in May. October 25, 2006 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. October 25, 2006 Evan Ziporyn wins 2006 Kepes Prize - Evan Ziporyn, Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music, has been awarded the 2006 Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize by the Council for the Arts at MIT. The award will be presented on Thursday, Oct. 26, at the council's 34th annual meeting. October 24, 2006 MIT Excellence Awards -- Oct. 18 is deadline! - Time is running out to submit nominations for the 2007 MIT Excellence Awards. The deadline is Wednesday, Oct. 18. October 12, 2006 Academy of Arts and Sciences inducts three - MIT professors Timothy Swager, Daron Acemoglu and Joshua Angrist were inducted Oct. 7 into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Institute Professor Emilio Bizzi became the academy's 44th president. October 12, 2006 Institute of Medicine elects three from MIT - MIT faculty members Elazer R. Edelman, Rudolf Jaenisch and Susan L. Lindquist were among the 65 scientists elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies this week, bringing the total IOM membership to 1,651. October 11, 2006 MIT economist wins innovation prize - Economist Stephen A. Ross, whose work has significantly impacted how market participants measure and address risk, has been awarded the inaugural Chicago Mercantile Exchange-Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Prize. October 6, 2006 Hispanic Heritage winner sets sights high - Freshman Eletha Flores' commitment to excellence started early. "Either I go all the way or I don't do it," says the recipient of the 2006 Hispanic Heritage Foundation's National Youth Award for Engineering and Mathematics. October 4, 2006 17 faculty members promoted - The Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation has approved promotion for 17 faculty members to the rank of full professor. All appointments were effective July 1. October 4, 2006 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. October 4, 2006 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. September 27, 2006 Strang receives three teaching prizes - During his 50-year career at MIT, Professor Gilbert Strang (S.B. 1955) of the Department of Mathematics has become one of the most recognized mathematicians in the world, thanks to his expertise in both teaching and writing. September 25, 2006 $100 million grant funds research center - The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard will join forces with four prominent New York research centers to battle cancer thanks to a $100 million award from the Starr Foundation announced today. September 21, 2006 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. September 20, 2006 Two MIT scientists win 2006 Pioneer Awards - Professors Arup K. Chakraborty and James L. Sherley are among 13 scientists nationwide to receive 2006 Pioneer Awards today from the National Institutes of Health for their "highly innovative research." September 19, 2006 MIT bioengineer wins MacArthur 'genius' award - Professor Linda Griffith, a noted biotechnologist, has won a 2006 MacArthur Fellowship, more commonly known as a "genius" grant. Fellows receive $500,000 in "no strings attached" support over five years. September 19, 2006 MIT faculty, alumni cited as top young innovators - Three MIT faculty and eight alumni are among the TR 35, Technology Review Magazine's compilation of the 35 top innovators worldwide under the age of 35. September 8, 2006 MIT physicist shares award for 'Big Bang' research - An MIT physicist is among the members of the Cosmic Background Explorer science team recently awarded the 2006 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their groundbreaking studies confirming that our universe was born in a hot Big Bang. September 6, 2006 AARP honors MIT for commitment to older workers - MIT has made top grades as an employer of workers age 50 and older, according to AARP, which cited MIT's excellence in recruitment practices, flexible work schedules and benefits. August 30, 2006 Cycling team peddling Nobel jerseys - MIT cycling team members have found a way to combine the scientific excellence in the halls of MIT with their athletic pursuits. To raise money for the team, they asked four Nobel laureates to autograph two official cycling team jerseys. August 25, 2006 AgeLab grant studies impact of boomers' transportation needs - Aging baby boomers and their impact on our transportation system is the focus of a $6.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to a group of New England universities led by MIT. August 22, 2006 U.S. News rates MIT tops in engineering - MIT ranks fourth among national universities, first in undergraduate engineering and second in undergraduate business programs, according to the 2007 US News & World Report guidebook, "America's Best Colleges." August 18, 2006 Record of service earns MIT top ranking - For the second year in a row, MIT has been named the No. 1 university in the country, according to Washington Monthly's annual ranking of universities based on their service to the world. August 9, 2006 It's a strike! Langer pitches one in for Sox - Practice made perfect for Institute Professor Robert Langer, who delivered a strike for the ceremonial first pitch before a recent Red Sox game, after working out with his 12-year-old son, Sam, for a couple of days before the big moment. August 3, 2006 MIT earns kudos for campus artwork - MIT's public art collection has been named one of the 10 best campus art collections in America by Public Art Review, considered the leading national journal in the field of public art. July 28, 2006 Awards and honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. July 27, 2006 Selker honored for aiding voting for disabled - On July 26, MIT Associate Professor Ted Selker will receive the Thomas Paine Award from the American Association of People With Disabilities for his work in improving voting accuracy while paying special attention to the needs of impaired voters. July 24, 2006 Colleagues honor Langer for 30 years of innovation - Scientific colleagues from across the nation and the world celebrated the contributions made by Institute Professor Robert Langer with a three-day symposium held July 14-16 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge. July 20, 2006 Zesiger Center makes A-List for great facilities - In the heat of the summer, it is good to know the best swimming pool in the Boston area is right here at MIT. In an Internet poll, the Al and Barrie Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center took home the title for "Best Swimming Pool" and "Best Cardio Gym" in the Boston metro area. July 20, 2006 New fellowship supports environmental work - A new public service fellowship for environmental work will be available to MIT students early next year. Sponsored by the MIT Women's League, the Betty Johnson Fellowship will provide $4,400 annually for students to pursue environmental work anywhere in the world. July 5, 2006 Vandiver named Distinguished Eagle Scout - The Boston Minuteman Council of the Boy Scouts of America has honored MIT Professor J. Kim Vandiver by naming him a Distinguished Eagle Scout, awarded to persons who have had outstanding careers after earning the Eagle Scout. June 28, 2006 Lemelson program revamps prizes to inspire inventors - The Lemelson-MIT Program announced this week that it will refocus the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the largest cash prize given in the United States for invention, to help bring inventions from younger, midcareer researchers into use. June 22, 2006 Biology awards - 2006 Awards listings. June 8, 2006 HHMI awards MIT $1.8 million - MIT has been awarded $1.8 million for undergraduate biology education from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which awarded a total of $86.4 million to 50 universities around the country. June 8, 2006 Awards convocation - 2006 Awards listings. June 7, 2006 Arts awards - 2006 Awards listings. June 7, 2006 Mechanical engineering awards - 2006 Awards listings. June 7, 2006 Civil and environmental engineering awards - 2006 Awards listings. June 7, 2006 Phi Beta Kappa members - 2006 Awards listings. June 7, 2006 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science awards - 2006 Awards listings. 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June 7, 2006 Information Services and Technology awards - 2006 Awards listings. June 7, 2006 Excellence Awards awards - 2006 Awards listings. June 7, 2006 Office of Academic Services awards - 2006 Awards listings. June 7, 2006 Academic Resource Center awards - 2006 Awards listings. June 7, 2006 IDEAS Competition awards - 2006 Awards listings. June 7, 2006 Student Activities Office awards - 2006 Awards listings. June 7, 2006 Residence Life Programs awards - 2006 Awards listings. June 7, 2006 Quarter Century Club welcomes new members - Quarter Century Club membership is offered to faculty, admininistrative, research, support and service staff with 25 years of employment with the Institute. June 7, 2006 Key to abbreviations - The names of some academic departments and programs have been shortened to save space in awards listings. This is a key of the abbreviations. June 7, 2006 Institute Awards 2005-2006 - Awards and recognition of MIT students, faculty and staff. June 7, 2006 Ann Graybiel honored for Parkinson's work - Ann Graybiel has a new professorship to her name, external to MIT, in recognition of her important contributions to the understanding and treatment of Parkinson's disease. June 7, 2006 Undergraduate scholarships awarded - Three MIT undergraduates are among the 323 students recently named Barry Goldwater Scholars. June 7, 2006 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 7, 2006 Graduating senior plans musical interlude - It was love at first sight when graduating senior Christine Chiu saw her first piano 20 years ago at her older sister's lesson. Though her sister has long since abandoned the instrument, Chiu's love has only grown. June 7, 2006 Schnitzer Prize-winning art on display - Award-winning student designs in electronic furniture, video installation and wearable architecture will be exhibited at the Wiesner Student Art Gallery through the end of June. June 7, 2006 'Pioneering' work earns Suresh honor - The National University of Singapore (NUS) has named MIT Professor Subra Suresh one of two Centennial Professors, the university's most prestigious professorships. June 7, 2006 Cambridge First Day honors six - The 14th annual Cambridge First Day at MIT will honor six Cambridge institutions for "Bridging the Digital Divide" in the city. June 7, 2006 Students win grant for Lesotho solar generator - Two MIT graduate students in civil and environmental engineering have won a 2006 World Bank Development Marketplace grant to develop a solar micro-generator that would provide affordable energy to Lesotho. June 5, 2006 Two named Trailblazers - Two MIT scientists, James Sherley and Pardis Sabeti, have been chosen as 2006 Trailblazers by Science Spectrum magazine. The award honors outstanding Hispanic, Asian American, Native American and black professionals in science. June 2, 2006 Sur elected fellow of Royal Society - Mriganka Sur, the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience and head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society. May 24, 2006 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. May 24, 2006 H. Robert Horvitz wins Killian Award - Nobel laureate H. Robert Horvitz, the David H. Koch Professor of Cancer Biology, is MIT's James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award winner for 2005-2006. May 23, 2006 MIT is named HeartSafe Community - MIT became the first college in the country to be officially honored with a HeartSafe Community designation on Wednesday, May 10, in the Student Center. May 17, 2006 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. May 17, 2006 Ploegh wins Belgian health prize - Princess Mathilde of Belgium presented Hidde Ploegh, MIT biology professor and member of the Whitehead Institute, with the 2006 Interbrew-Baillet Latour Health Prize on Saturday, May 6. May 16, 2006 Broad receives $18 million grant - The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has received an award of more than $18 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to support studies aimed at unveiling the genetic variations that underlie common human diseases. May 10, 2006 Architecture head Yung Ho Chang wins prize - Yung Ho Chang, head of MIT's Department of Architecture, will receive an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters at its annual award and induction ceremony in May. May 10, 2006 MIT teams rewarded for innovation - The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation has awarded $500,000 in grants to seven MIT research teams working on discoveries that could revolutionize drug development and delivery, surgical procedures and trauma care, safety products in sports, and water purification processes, among others. May 10, 2006 Lemelson-MIT awards prizes for innovation - The Lemelson-MIT Program announced today that its $500,000 prize will be presented to James Fergason, whose work with liquid crystals paved the way for multiple innovations, including digital watches and computer monitors. May 3, 2006 MISTI awards fellowships - The MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) program announced the recipients of the 2006 Anthony Sun Fellowship Awards at its annual Faculty Club gala on Wednesday, April 26. May 3, 2006 AAAS names 3 fellows from MIT - Three MIT faculty members -- two acclaimed labor economists and an expert in chemical sensors for explosives detection -- were elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Monday, April 24. April 26, 2006 Awards and Honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. April 26, 2006
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