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The Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech has named the 2024 Ross Brown Investigators. Each awardee will receive $2 million in research support over five years.

MIT.nano recently celebrated its fifth anniversary by holding The Nano Summit. This first offering of an annual flagship conference for MIT.nano highlighted the research being done at MIT and gave the attendees a peak into future advancements enabled by nanoscience and engineering.

Engineer Ross M. Brown, who built and sold an industrial conglomerate for more than $400 million, is donating nearly all his wealth to promising mid-career chemistry and physics professors at a range of universities.

The new members will join previously elected fellows in helping to advance the common good.

High school junior Jessica Wan received the top $50,000 prize, with a score of 17 out of 20, out of 240 girls in the U.S. and Canada competing in the Math Prize for Girls annual contest at MIT.

MIT Professor Peter Shor has won the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with three others for “foundational work in the field of quantum information.” In addition, Daniel A. Spielman PhD ’95 has won the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Mathematics.

One day after President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 into law, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren visited MIT.nano to tour the cutting-edge facility and discuss how the legislation will boost domestic microelectronics research and manufacturing, and grow the semiconductor workforce.

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Building out a domestic computer chip manufacturing industry has become a priority after pandemic issues revealed supply chain glitches. Today on All Sides we consider the benefits and the cost of a domestic chip industry for central Ohio and the nation.

The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2022 is awarded in equal shares to mathematicians Noga Alon of Princeton University and Ehud Hrushovski of Oxford, "for their remarkable contributions to discrete mathematics and model theory with interaction notably with algebraic geometry, topology and computer sciences." Awarded by the Hong Kong-based Shaw Foundation, the Shaw Prize honors recent breakthroughs by researchers in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, and life science and med...