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MIT Nobelists

Current and former members of the MIT community who have won the Nobel Prize. October 15, 2007

Report: Support early-career investigators

Programs and policies to support early-career investigators and high-risk, high-reward research are needed to preserve U.S. leadership in science and technology, according to a report produced by a panel that included an MIT Nobel laureate. June 3, 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

Microcredit pioneer to be Commencement speaker

Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, will deliver MIT's 2008 Commencement address on June 6. Yunus won the Nobel Prize for pioneering the microlending movement, which offers credit without collateral to the poor. December 5, 2007

Horvitz will deliver Killian Lecture on April 24

Nobel laureate H. Robert Horvitz, the David H. Koch Professor of Cancer Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, will deliver the 35th annual Killian Award lecture April 24 at 4:30 p.m. in Kirsch Auditorium (Room 32-123) of the Stata Center. April 20, 2007

Nobelists' work supports big-bang theory

MIT alumnus George F. Smoot has been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics, together with John C. Mather, for work that looks back into the infancy of the universe and attempts to gain some understanding of the origin of galaxies and stars. October 3, 2006

MIT alum shares Nobel Prize in physiology

Andrew Z. Fire, who received the Ph.D. from MIT in 1983, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2006 together with Craig C. Mello for their discovery of RNA interference -- gene silencing by double-stranded RNA. October 2, 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

Nobel winner will sing in 'Atomic' love opera

Frank Wilczek will 'top' his 2004 Nobel achievement on August 24 -- at least in terms of elevation. In the Austrian mountain village of Alpbach, elevation 3,280 feet above sea level, Wilczek will sing the lead role in the opera "Atom & Eve." August 24, 2006

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