Awards, honors and fellowships

Polz to receive the American Society for Microbiology’s Elanco AwardDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering professor, who studies wild microbial communities, is the first ecologist to be selected.

Abudayyeh named a Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellow2012 alumnus will use fellowship to support his studies in the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program.

New grants help amplify impact of MIT IDEAS Global Challenge teamsStudent-led entrepreneurship supported by new Venture Grants

Sports Shorts for March 25: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsUbellacker leads men's swimming and diving team to third-place finish at NCAA Championships; Tashman named All-American in basketball; Rafidi finishes ninth at NCAA Fencing Championship

Faculty describe experiments with digital learning on MacVicar DayParticipants discuss how they are 'reimagining the MIT classroom.'

Peter Szolovits honored with Morris F. Collen Award of ExcellenceProfessor cited for 'commitment and dedication to biomedical informatics'

Burchard Scholars named for 2013Honorees chosen for demonstrating outstanding abilities and academic excellence in humanities, arts or social sciences, as well as in science and engineering

NSE students in the national spotlightThree from Course 22 named to Forbes '30 under 30' list

Berners-Lee wins first Queen Elizabeth Prize for EngineeringHonored for inventing the World Wide Web

Sports Shorts for March 18: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsMen’s volleyball wins Johnson & Wales Invitational; baseball and softball begin seasons with victories

Four professors named 2013 MacVicar FellowsGriffith, Miller, Schulz and Teng awarded the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching honor.

SHASS announces expanded Kelly Essay Prize for undergraduatesAll forms of nonfiction prose now eligible for the $800 prize

New international fellowship to honor Charles VestMIT will be one of eight U.S. universities to participate.

Goldwasser and Micali win Turing AwardTeam honored for ‘revolutionizing the science of cryptography.’

Boyden to share prestigious brain prizeEd Boyden honored for his work on optogenetics; will share 1 million Euro prize with five other researchers.

Sports Shorts for March 11: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsField hockey has top GPA among Division III teams; Phillips and Wright gain postseason honors for rifle

Esther Duflo selected as a 2013 Dan David Prize laureateHonored for research to alleviate poverty through disease prevention

Slideshow: 2013 MIT Excellence Awards19 staff members honored with annual awards on March 6

Daniel Weitzner receives IAPP Privacy Leadership AwardLauded for work and leadership in the development of Internet public policy

MIT field hockey team receives academic accoladesRecorded the highest grade point average in Division III and had 11 student-athletes earn a spot on the National Academic Squad

MIT student inventor Nikolai Begg receives Lemelson-MIT student prize$30,000 Lemelson-MIT collegiate student prizes awarded to inventive students at three leading universities

Allen Family Foundation grants Gore $1.5 million for research

The People Behind the Awards: Laya W. WiesnerA look at some of MIT's most influential figures and the Institute awards that honor them.

MIT’s Ernest J. Moniz nominated Secretary of EnergyPresident Obama’s pick is head of the MIT Energy Initiative and a former undersecretary of energy.

Sports Shorts for March 4: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsTashman named NEWMAC Athlete of the Year for men’s basketball; men's tennis remains undefeated

Temkin named IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award winnerRichard J. Temkin cited for contributions to the field of high power gyrotrons and their applications

Leveson and ESD Student Society honored with Martore AwardsAward recognizes outstanding contributions to an ESD academic program in the areas of education and program development.