MIT community in 2021: A year in review
Top Institute stories dealt with the return to campus and continued response to Covid-19, MIT’s commitments to climate action, its support of a diverse community, and more.
Top Institute stories dealt with the return to campus and continued response to Covid-19, MIT’s commitments to climate action, its support of a diverse community, and more.
In the Hoyt C. Hottel Lecture, Arnold tells the story of her pathbreaking research to engineer better enzymes for critical applications.
Cited for work building the foundations of “natural experiments” in economic research, Angrist is honored along with David Card and Guido Imbens.
MIT alumnus and one other honored for their discoveries of how the nervous system senses temperature and touch.
MIT alumna and two others honored for discoveries in black hole physics.
Longtime MIT physicist and mentor created instruments that advanced high-energy physics, including the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the J particle.
MIT professor and alumna shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics, which recognized collaborators’ “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
Professors share prize with Michael Kremer of Harvard University, are cited for breakthrough antipoverty work.
One of three scientists recognized for developing the lithium-ion battery, Goodenough explored the physics of magnetic materials during his career at Lincoln Laboratory.
Scholar shares award for his work on climate economics.
LIGO inventor and professor emeritus of physics recognized “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.”
MIT alumnus and two others honored for discovering the molecular mechanisms of circadian rhythms.
Swedish delegation tours Institute, participates in dialogue on innovation.
Faculty members in SHASS and Sloan cite his transformative work on contract theory.