Awards, honors and fellowships

Deshpande Center's latest funding cycle supports goal of 'idea to impact'

Since 2002, the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation has funded more than 80 projects with over $9 M in grants. The center supports a wide range of emerging technologies including biotechnology, biomedical devices, information technology, new materials, tiny tech, and energy innovations. Eighteen projects have spun out of the center as independent startups, having collectively raised over $150 million in outside financing from investors.

October 17, 2009

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (inset) has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship. The image here shows the crystallographic structure of graphene, a novel material that Jarillo-Herrero plans to study with his Packard grant.

Physicist wins Packard Fellowship

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero will use the unrestricted funding to study materials that follow unusual rules of physics.

October 16, 2009

The 2009 MIT Track Cycling National Team
From L-R, Back Row: Guo-Liang Chew, Matt Blackburn, Martha Buckley, Nick Loomis
Middle: Mike Garrett, Yuri Matsumoto, Laura Ralston
Front: Zach Labry, Tim Humpton
not pictured: Jose Soltren

MIT Cycling Team wins Division II Omnium at 2009 USA Cycling Collegiate Track National Championships

In only their third showing at the competition, The MIT Cycling Team wins the Collegiate Track National Championships for the second year in a row.

October 14, 2009

MIT’s Community Development and Substance Abuse Center one of three colleges to win national award

MIT program recognized as a national model for higher education

October 14, 2009

Economics professor Amy Finkelstein, left; and Tyler Jacks, the director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, were elected today to the Institute of Medicine.

Two from MIT elected to the Institute of Medicine

Professor of Economics Amy Finkelstein and Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute, join arm of the National Academies of Science.

October 12, 2009

MIT alum garners economics nobel

Oliver Williamson '55 a co-winner, for work on the theory of the firm

October 12, 2009

A capital achievement

In White House ceremony, President Barack Obama presents JoAnne Stubbe with the National Medal of Science in recognition of enzyme research that led to cancer drug.

October 7, 2009

Asteroids honor and motivate young scientists

Since 2001, MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Ceres Connection program, in conjunction with the International Astronomical Union, has celebrated more than 1,500 science fair winners by naming minor planets in their honor.

October 6, 2009

Nominations due Oct. 26 for 2010 MIT Excellence Awards

October 6, 2009

Widnall receives NAE Bueche Award

The National Academy of Engineering presents MIT Institute Professor and Professor of Aeronautics Sheila E. Windall (‘60, MS ’61, PhD ’64) its Arthur M. Bueche Award for expanding engineering opportunities for women and minorities.

October 5, 2009

Recent awards and honors

October 5, 2009

AeroAstro's Castonia named USAF Cadet of the Year

AeroAstro student Cadet Col. Ryan W. Castonia has been named U.S. Air Force Cadet of the Year by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz.

September 28, 2009

NIH picks Samson, Griffith and Bhatia for innovation grants

Pioneer, T-R01 awards aimed to spur 'out of the box' research

September 24, 2009

Of Note: MIT professors win NIH grants aimed at spurring innovative research

September 24, 2009

Kai von Fintel, professor of linguistics and associate dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Philosopher’s Annual 'ten best' selection for von Fintel and Rayo

September 23, 2009

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