Awards, honors and fellowships

The orbits of the seven planets around the ultra-cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 lie much, much closer to their star than even Mercury's path around our own Sun. In relative size, the system is more akin to Jupiter and its moons.

Julien de Wit and TRAPPIST-1 science team receive NASA award

Assistant professor in EAPS and colleagues from the University of Liège were honored for groundbreaking planetary system discovery.

September 6, 2018

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics grad students Sebastien Mannai (left) and Antoni Rosinol Vidal won the FutureMakers Challenge first prize by demonstrating the utility of machine vision and signal processing in a complex mechanical engineering system.

Sebastien Mannai, Antoni Rosinol Vidal win FutureMakers first prize

AeroAstro grad students win multi-university challenge by demonstrating the utility of machine vision in a complex system.

September 4, 2018

Luisa Kenausis spoke at the Minds Not Missiles conference held at MIT on April 7, about the importance of educating students on nuclear weapons. The event was organized by Massachusetts Peace Action.

Q&A: Luisa Kenausis ’17 — A passion for policy

Alumna builds on her foundation in nuclear policy through a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship.

August 30, 2018

Chris Caplice (left) is executive director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, and Justin Reich is executive director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab.

Chris Caplice and Justin Reich win 2018 MITx Prize for Teaching and Learning in MOOCs

Award for outstanding teaching and learning is meant to encourage development of new methods and technologies for massive open online courses.

August 24, 2018

This year's winners are (clockwise from top left) William Minicozzi, Ankur Moitra, Paul O’Gorman, and Kerstin Perez

Four honored with 2018 School of Science teaching prizes

Moitra, O’Gorman, Perez, and Minicozzi were nominated by students and colleagues for demonstrating excellence in instruction.

August 20, 2018

Thomas Magnanti honored with Singapore’s National Day Award

Institute Professor and former president of Singapore University of Technology and Design helped build MIT-Singapore institutions and programs.

August 17, 2018

The inaugural class of Convergence Scholars: (l-r) Ritu Raman, Liang Hao, Natalie Boehnke, Briana Dunn, Jacob Martin, and Kaitlyn Sadtler

Preparing postdocs for life beyond the bench

The new Convergence Scholars Program bridges disciplines and helps young researchers further their skills and build their brands as scientists.

August 16, 2018

High school students (l-r) Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner, and Bria Snell, whose water purification system won them second place in a NASA technology competition, got a tour of the Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel as part of their visit to MIT. The visit was sponsored by AeroAfro, an organization of MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics students.

NASA student competitors honored for persistence

MIT student group welcomes an all-black, all-female team who had been targeted by racist and misogynistic members of an infamous online forum.

August 14, 2018

Krithika Ramchander (left), a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Andrea Karin Beck, a PhD candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, have each received fellowships from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) for 2018-2019. Their research explores solutions to global and local water supply challenges using engineering and q...

Krithika Ramchander and Andrea Beck awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions

Graduate students receive J-WAFS fellowships to support research focused on improving water access for rural as well as urban communities.

August 9, 2018

Hammer family gift to support doctoral fellowships in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Gift to IDSS honors Michael Hammer, influential business leader, engineer, educator, MIT faculty member, and MIT alumnus.

August 3, 2018

Recipients of a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation are (l-r) Radha Mastandrea, Carina Belvin, and Shuo Zhang. Professor Lindley Winslow, who established the grant program, is at right. Not pictured: grant recipient Clara Sousa-Silva.

Paying it forward: Fellowship boosts women in physics

Four students are first beneficiaries of grant program established by Assistant Professor Lindley Winslow with support from the Heising-Simons Foundation.

August 2, 2018

MIT Professor Costis Daskalakis is the 2018 winner of the Nevanlinna Prize.

Constantinos Daskalakis wins prestigious Nevanlinna Prize

Professor of electrical engineering and computer science is honored for his contributions to theoretical computer science.

August 1, 2018

Clockwise from top left: Eliezer Calo, Steven Flavell, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Becky Lamason, Rebecca Saxe, Omer Yilmaz, Yufei Zhao, and Martin Zwierlein.

School of Science appoints eight faculty members to named professorships

July 23, 2018

Michale Fee studies how the brain learns and generates complex sequential behaviors, with a focus on the songbird as a model system.

Michale Fee receives McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award

The McKnight technology award supports scientists using novel and creative approaches to understanding brain function.

July 20, 2018

MIT European Club Board members celebrate with their prize. Left to right: treasurer Karine Ip Kiun Chong, Michel Nasilowski, president Giulio Alighieri, vice president Susanna Bächle, social chair Xiaoyu Wu, and events co-chair Saviz Mowlavi.

MIT European Club leads in giving back

Club wins the MIT Outstanding Award for 2018 and surpasses the $240,000 mark in funding MISTI European Fellows.