Mit Faculty Awards News Today

Following a student-led nomination process, 23 MIT faculty have been selected as the newest honorees for the Committed to Caring award. These professors were selected for their genuine dedication to student mentorship and well-being.

Five MIT community members were honored with 2024 Franklin Institute Awards.

MIT assistant professor and saxophonist Miguel Zenón won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. He and pianist Luis Perdomo won for their album "El Arte Del Bolero Vol. 2."

The National Academy of Sciences awarded MIT professor emerita and pioneering molecular biologist Nancy Hopkins with the 2024 Public Welfare Medal for leadership in advancing women’s representation in science.

MIT Professor Susan Solomon won the 2023 VinFuture Award for Female Innovators in recognition of her contributions to understanding ozone depletion and the creation of the Montreal Protocol.

MIT Professor Elly Nedivi has been honored with the Krieg Cortical Kudos Discoverer Award for her ongoing work to understand molecular and cellular mechanisms that enable the brain to adapt to experience.

The Society for Neuroscience named MIT Picower Professor Mark Bear a co-recipient of the 2023 Julius Axelrod Prize for his synaptic plasticity research, its translation to potential amblyopia and autism treatments, and his career of mentorship.

MIT professors Gene-Wei Li and Michael Birnbaum are among the 12 researchers named 2023 Innovation Fund investigators by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

The American Physical Society named MIT's Paola Cappellaro, Maria Gatu Johnson, and Bradley Olsen as APS Fellows for their research, applications, teaching, and leadership. Ten additional MIT alumni were also named.

MIT professor Daron Acemoglu, a leading expert on economic growth and the uses and risks of automation, has been awarded the WZB Berlin Science Center's A.SK Award for fundamental contributions to labor economics, macroeconomics, and political economy.