MIT senior wins 2020 Rhodes Scholarship for Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine region
The Rhodes Scholarship offers opportunities for Arab students.
Sixteen grad students named to the Siebel Scholars class of 2020
MIT students from the fields of bioengineering, business, computer science, and energy science receive the prestigious awards.
Ten Lincoln Laboratory technologies earn 2019 R&D 100 Awards
International awards recognize innovations that can have significant impacts on society.
School of Science appoints 14 faculty members to named professorships
Those selected for these positions receive additional support to pursue their research and develop their careers.
Bryan Reimer receives human factors innovator award
MIT AgeLab research engineer directs a team that studies in-vehicle automation, robotics, AI, and the mechanics of driver attention, among other topics.
Eric Alm and Peter Dedon receive NIH Transformative Research Award
Award will support interdisciplinary research on the role of the human microbiome in health and disease.
American Physical Society honors three MIT professors for physics research
James Collins, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, and Richard Milner have won top prizes for their work.
Meet the 2019 tenured professors in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
SHASS faculty members Nikhil Agarwal, Sana Aiyar, Stephanie Frampton, Daniel Hidalgo, and Miriam Schoenfield were recently granted tenure.
Ankur Jain awarded Packard Foundation Fellowship
Whitehead Institute member and assistant professor of biology receives one of the most prestigious non-governmental awards for early-career scientists.
Two from MIT elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2019
Sangeeta Bhatia and Richard Young recognized for their contributions to “advancement of the medical sciences, health care, and public health.”
Alan Edelman recognized with 2019 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award
Edelman's Julia programming language was recognized for solving large computational problems for high-performance computers.
MIT economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee win Nobel Prize
Professors share prize with Michael Kremer of Harvard University, are cited for breakthrough antipoverty work.
Longtime MIT Lincoln Laboratory researcher John Goodenough wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
One of three scientists recognized for developing the lithium-ion battery, Goodenough explored the physics of magnetic materials during his career at Lincoln Laboratory.
Victor Kac elected to the Accademia Nationale dei Lincei
Victor Kac elected to the Accademia Nationale dei Lincei Mathematics professor will join Galileo and Einstein as a member of the world's oldest science academy.
Technology transfer award recognizes system that detects concealed objects on people
The technology, first developed at Lincoln Laboratory, is now licensed and will soon be tested to screen passersby in sports stadiums.