Awards, honors and fellowships

Sports Shorts for Apr. 10: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsMen's volleyball takes second at volleyball scramble tournament; Rafidi competes at Junior World Fencing Championships.

Three MIT economics doctoral students selected as among the world's most promising

All in a day’s work: Design and print your own robotMIT project, funded with $10 million NSF grant, could transform robotic design and production

Two MIT juniors named Truman ScholarsMcCord, Okuneye awarded $30,000 for graduate study toward careers in government, non-profits.

Sports Shorts for April 2: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsMIT jumps to fourth in Learfield Sports Directors Cup standings; Shin competes at NCAA Fencing Championships.

MIT jumps to fourth after winter seasons in 2011-12 Division III Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup Standings

Buehler to receive Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Materials Research SocietyHonored for highly innovative and creative work in computational modeling

Sports Shorts for March 27: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsKates named All-American; men's and women's swimming and diving teams finish in top 10 at NCAAs.

MIT SHASS welcomes PEN New England to new home on campus

MIT Professor Shigeru Miyagawa named award recipient by the OCW ConsortiumProfessor Miyagawa recognized with other leaders of the global OpenCourseWare movement.

Erica Caple James receives $25,000 Levitan Prize in the HumanitiesA 'consummate anthropologist'

Four professors named 2012 MacVicar FellowsBroadhead, Kaelbling, Kaiser and Rose awarded the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching honor.

Help MIT recognize the best of MITNominations now being accepted for the 2012 Institute Awards Convocation; deadline pushed back to March 26.

Current SHASS MacVicar Faculty Fellows reflect on teaching at MITNew fellows to be named Friday; current SHASS fellows discuss the significance — and the sheer fun — of teaching the Institute's students

Sports Shorts for Mar. 13: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsMen's basketball advances to the Final Four; indoor track and field competes at NCAA Championship.

Graduate programs in engineering, management excel in new rankingsMIT leads in multiple disciplines, says U.S. News & World Report.

The scoop on Coeus: It’s not just for grants.gov proposalsCoeus is equally useful for preparing and routing other grant proposals, whether they are going to industry, foundations or federal agencies.

Scott Aaronson wins NSF’s Alan T. Waterman AwardNational Science Foundation’s most prestigious award will help fuel CSAIL researcher’s work.

McGovern Institute to honor synapses expert Roger NicollNamed winner of the 2012 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience.

MIT students tackle efficiency barriers at the Better Buildings Case Competition

Rebecca Saxe named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum

MIT student inventor Miles C. Barr receives Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Sports Shorts for Mar. 6: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsMen's basketball moves on to Sweet 16; Shin named NFC Fencer of the Year.