Awards, honors and fellowships
Essmart Global awarded grand prize in Dell Social Innovation Competition
June 15, 2012
MIT IDEAS Global Challenge team wins $50,000 in international competition.
Also labeled: Contests and academic competitions, Entrepreneurship
Glen Urban, former MIT Sloan dean, retires to focus on research; leaves behind $1 million gift
June 11, 2012
Establishes a PhD marketing fellowship at the school
Physicist and entrepreneur Dr. Stephen Quake honored with $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
June 4, 2012
Recognized for biomedical discoveries and commercialization of inventions revolutionizing human health
Dresselhaus, Graybiel, Luu receive 2012 Kavli Prizes
May 31, 2012
Biennial prizes in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience include a $1 million cash award in each field.
Zuber wins faculty’s Killian Award
May 29, 2012
Planetary trailblazer recognized for ‘extraordinary skills and talent.’
Also labeled: Faculty, McDermott Award, Planetary science, Research, Space, astronomy and planetary science, geophysics
Mujid Kazimi, of nuclear science and engineering, wins Kuwait Prize
May 23, 2012
Honored for contributions to nuclear power technology
Also labeled: Energy, Faculty, Global, Nuclear power and reactors, Nuclear science and engineering, Policy
Sports Shorts for May 22: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
May 22, 2012
Mangrum Selected All-Region; Taylor Named New England Coach of the Year.
MIT awarded more than $2 million in NEUP grants, fellowships
May 21, 2012
Includes $1.65 million in Department of Energy Nuclear Energy University Programs grants and $450,000 in graduate student fellowships.
Nuclear science and engineering graduate students win NEUP fellowships
May 18, 2012
Black, Boyd and Shaner among 31 recipients
Sports Shorts for May 14: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
May 14, 2012
MIT leads NEWMAC in Academic All-Conference honors; men's tennis reaches third round of NCAA tournament.
Rising to the Challenge
May 14, 2012
Number Six wins second annual FSILG&D Community Service Challenge
Dresselhaus receives Fermi Award
May 11, 2012
Honored by Obama, Chu at ceremony in Washington.
2012–13 Knight Science Journalism Fellows announced
May 10, 2012
30th class will study science, health, environment and technology at MIT.
Also labeled: Journalism, Science writing
Sports Shorts for May 7: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
May 7, 2012
Men's track and field wins New England Division III Championship; three Engineers named to Capital One Academic All-District Team for baseball
Gradečak wins Nano Letters young investigator award
May 7, 2012
Materials science and engineering professor studies nanophotonics and electronics.
Innovative IDEAS
May 4, 2012
13 winning teams present projects at annual awards celebration.
Robinson wins prestigious Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship
May 3, 2012
First-year doctoral student earns DoE honor.
Four MIT professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 3, 2012
Liskov, Suresh, Townsend and Young bring to 78 the number of Institute faculty who are NAS members.
Robert Lepage dazzles MIT community during spectacular campus residency April 24-26, 2012
May 2, 2012
Robert Lepage dazzles MIT community during spectacular campus residency April 24-26.
Also labeled: Arts, McDermott Award, Media Lab, MIT Museum, MIT presidency, Music, Special events and guest speakers, Theater
Inventor honored for bridging innovation and humanitarianism to help millions globally live safer lives
May 2, 2012
Dr. Ashok Gadgil Receives $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation for Scientific Solutions to the Global Water Crisis, and Energy and Fuel Efficiency
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