Awards, honors and fellowships

Sports Shorts for Nov. 13: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsWomen’s cross country wins NCAA regional meet, advances to NCAA Championships; women’s soccer advances to NCAA Sweet 16.

Zue awarded Okawa PrizeHonored for work in speech science and spoken-language systems

Three awards for MIT research in anthropology, economics and political scienceMikusheva receives Elaine Bennett Research Prize; Petersen wins Distinguished Book Award; Helmreich wins Rachel Carson Prize.

MIT a linchpin of major new USAID programInstitute researchers aim to spur development and evaluation of useful technologies to help the world’s poor.

Engineers win six of seven fall NEWMAC ChampionshipsVarsity athletics has a record-breaking fall season.

Undergraduate Winters presents winning poster at APS annual meetingDepartment of Nuclear Science and Engineering junior wins one of three poster awards.

Sports Shorts for Nov. 6: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsThree Engineer teams win NEWMAC titles; water polo defeats Harvard for second time this season.

MIT Libraries’ research contributes to award-winning redistricting software, DistrictBuilderWeb-based resource gives citizens the opportunity to participate in the redistricting process.

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

MIT sailing receives trio of ICSA All-Academic Team honors

Peterson named National Scholar-Athlete by National Football FoundationMIT football co-captain is one of 15 honorees from across all divisions of college football selected for the award.

Sports Shorts for Oct. 30: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsMen’s and women’s cross country, women’s tennis all capture NEWMAC Conference championships; football clinches first winning record since 1999.

Q&A: Michel DeGraff on teaching STEM in KreyòlA model for reaching science-hungry students around the world who speak local languages

Sports Shorts for Oct. 22: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsFootball and women's soccer score victories over ranked opponents; men's basketball No. 1 in preseason poll.

Jaenisch, Suresh named Franklin Institute laureates

Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams selected from national pool of student applicants16 high school teams awarded up to $10,000 in grants to bring invention ideas to life.

Sports Shorts for Oct. 15: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsWomen's volleyball captures MIT Quad Tournament; women's tennis pair wins NEWITT B Flight title

Junot Díaz named finalist for the 2012 National Book Award

Sports Shorts for Oct. 9: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsThree Engineers earn NEWMAC Player of the Week honors; women's tennis remains in first place in NEWMAC standings.

DeGraff awarded $1 million NSF grant to continue linguistics research in HaitiFunding will help develop classroom tools to teach science and math in Creole for the first time.

Junot Díaz wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’Pulitzer Prize-winning author and writing professor receives unrestricted $500,000 prize.

Legatum Fellowship: develop the skills for the developing world

Developing future library leadersMIT Libraries launches Fellows Program

McGovern neuroscientist Constantine-Paton wins lifetime achievement award

A brain beyond bordersMIT senior Victoria Okuneye traveled to Mexico and Jamaica to pursue her passions for neuroscience and global service.

Alumni bring autoclaves to the developing worldOttoClave aims to deliver world-class sterilization technology to rural health clinics.

Del Alamo receives SRC 2012 Technical Excellence Award

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