Awards, honors and fellowships
Sports Shorts for May 7: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
May 7, 2012
Men's track and field wins New England Division III Championship; three Engineers named to Capital One Academic All-District Team for baseball
Gradečak wins Nano Letters young investigator award
May 7, 2012
Materials science and engineering professor studies nanophotonics and electronics.
Innovative IDEAS
May 4, 2012
13 winning teams present projects at annual awards celebration.
Robinson wins prestigious Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship
May 3, 2012
First-year doctoral student earns DoE honor.
Four MIT professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 3, 2012
Liskov, Suresh, Townsend and Young bring to 78 the number of Institute faculty who are NAS members.
Robert Lepage dazzles MIT community during spectacular campus residency April 24-26, 2012
May 2, 2012
Robert Lepage dazzles MIT community during spectacular campus residency April 24-26.
Also labeled: Arts, McDermott Award, Media Lab, MIT Museum, MIT presidency, Music, Special events and guest speakers, Theater
Inventor honored for bridging innovation and humanitarianism to help millions globally live safer lives
May 2, 2012
Dr. Ashok Gadgil Receives $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation for Scientific Solutions to the Global Water Crisis, and Energy and Fuel Efficiency
An MIT Sloan Fellow fashions a startup
May 2, 2012
Sloan student's Vogue background is inspiration for startup
Five from MIT named Fulbright scholars
May 1, 2012
Two current students and three recent graduates will study abroad for the 2012-13 academic year.
Sports Shorts for Apr. 30: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
April 30, 2012
Men's tennis, men's and women's outdoor track and field all win NEWMAC championships
Abelson honored as outstanding educator
April 30, 2012
Wins ACM's Karl V. Karlstom Award
Amy Finkelstein wins John Bates Clark Medal
April 27, 2012
MIT economist lauded for work on health care markets.
Institute faculty share prestigious neuroscience prize
April 26, 2012
Ed Boyden and Feng Zhang awarded the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize
Also labeled: Brain and cognitive sciences, Broad Institute, Faculty, McGovern Institute, Media Lab, Neuroscience, Optogenetics, Research
Anthropologist Silbey receives award for research on forging safety in science labs
April 25, 2012
Aligning ideals and real-world conditions
Also labeled: Alumni/ae, Anthropology, Faculty, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Law, Social sciences
Sports Shorts for Apr. 25: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
April 25, 2012
Hohenberger named First Team All-America for men’s volleyball; men's tennis goes undefeated in NEWMAC play
McGovern investigator Feng Zhang named Searle Scholar
April 23, 2012
Acemoglu wins Nemmers Prize
April 19, 2012
MIT economist granted award for ‘fundamental contributions’ on economics, politics and growth.
Sara Seager named co-winner of the 2012 Sackler Prize
April 18, 2012
Time magazine names Lo, Sadoway among the world’s ‘most influential’ people
April 18, 2012
Several MIT alumni also named to annual list.
Lynch named Athena Lecturer
April 18, 2012
Professor honored for advances in distributed systems that enable dependable Internet and wireless network applications.
Four from MIT win prestigious Guggenheim fellowships
April 17, 2012
Doeleman, Hughes, Makan and Yablo among 181 recipients for 2012.
Also labeled: Arts, Faculty, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Space, astronomy and planetary science, Staff, Theater
Freshman Jimenez-Galindo and junior Trac win de Courtivron Prizes
April 17, 2012
Prize honors cross-cultural fluency
Also labeled: Arts, Books and authors, Diversity, Humanities, Language, Students, Undergraduate, Global






















