Awards, honors and fellowships

From left to right: Dean of Engineering Ian Waitz, Elie Adam, Shengxi Huang, Jim Larson (Xerox), Adriana Schulz, Qingqing Huang, Theja Tulabandhula (background), Sophie Vandebroek (Xerox).

2012-13 Xerox-MIT fellows celebrated

Fellowship program was established to support top-tier engineering students — especially women and other groups traditionally underrepresented.

November 13, 2012

MIT Engineers beaver and text "MIT Engineering: Sports Shorts" is printed

Sports Shorts for Nov. 13: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Women’s cross country wins NCAA regional meet, advances to NCAA Championships; women’s soccer advances to NCAA Sweet 16.

November 13, 2012

Victor Zue, the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Zue awarded Okawa Prize

Honored for work in speech science and spoken-language systems

November 9, 2012

Anna Mikusheva, Castle Krob Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics; Roger Petersen, Sloan Professor of Political Science; Stefan Helmreich, Professor of Anthropology

Three awards for MIT research in anthropology, economics and political science

Mikusheva receives Elaine Bennett Research Prize; Petersen wins Distinguished Book Award; Helmreich wins Rachel Carson Prize.

November 9, 2012

A mango crusher in Chipata, Zambia. As part of a design challenge to get more value from mangos, participants in D-Lab's Creative Capacity Building training session built a device for crushing mangos and extracting the juice. This project was part of a D-Lab trip to establish an Appropriate Technology Center with the Peace Corps in 2011.

MIT a linchpin of major new USAID program

Institute researchers aim to spur development and evaluation of useful technologies to help the world’s poor.

November 8, 2012

Engineers win six of seven fall NEWMAC Championships

Varsity athletics has a record-breaking fall season.

November 8, 2012

From left to right: Professor Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin, 2012 Chair of DPP; Victoria Winters; four other student award winners; Professor Paul Miller of West Virginia University, the APS-DPP Sub-Committee Chair for Education and Outreach.

Undergraduate Winters presents winning poster at APS annual meeting

Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering junior wins one of three poster awards.

November 6, 2012

Sports Shorts for Nov. 6: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Three Engineer teams win NEWMAC titles; water polo defeats Harvard for second time this season.

November 5, 2012

MIT Libraries’ research contributes to award-winning redistricting software, DistrictBuilder

Web-based resource gives citizens the opportunity to participate in the redistricting process.

November 5, 2012

School of Engineering teams win big at this year’s MassChallenge

November 1, 2012

From left: Eamon Glackin, Steph Tong and Andrew Sommer

MIT sailing receives trio of ICSA All-Academic Team honors

October 31, 2012

Peterson named National Scholar-Athlete by National Football Foundation

MIT football co-captain is one of 15 honorees from across all divisions of college football selected for the award.

October 30, 2012

Sports Shorts for Oct. 30: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Men’s and women’s cross country, women’s tennis all capture NEWMAC Conference championships; football clinches first winning record since 1999.

October 30, 2012

Michel DeGraff, Associate Professor of Linguistics

Q&A: Michel DeGraff on teaching STEM in Kreyòl

A model for reaching science-hungry students around the world who speak local languages

October 25, 2012

Sports Shorts for Oct. 22: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Football and women's soccer score victories over ranked opponents; men's basketball No. 1 in preseason poll.

October 22, 2012

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