Awards+Honors – Page 2

Boston Globe Honors MIT Game Changers

Solar Power to Purify Water: A 2-Billion-Person Solution?

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Medical Hackathon Awards Innovations in Mobile, Global Health Solutions

Michael Stonbraker. Photo: M. Scott Brauer/MIT News

Turing Award Celebrates the Base of Modern Databases

$Sheela Devadas (right) receives the Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics from Professor Ruth Charney of Brandeis University, then president of the Association for Women in Mathematics. Image: Magnhild Lien, executive director, Association for Women in Mathematics$

National Math Prize Winner Fell in Love with the Subject at MIT—During High School

Institute professor Robert Langer ScD '74 was awarded the 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for his revolutionary advances and leadership in engineering at the interface with chemistry and medicine. Image: Courtesy qeprize.org

Career of Health Breakthroughs Earns Robert Langer the Queen Elizabeth Prize

A prototype of a new modular robot that can move independently—known as an M-Block—which was created in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Funds from the Viterbi professorship have enabled Rus to advance her robotics research. Photo: M. Scott Brauer

Pioneer in Wireless Communications Inspires a New Generation of Innovators

Forbes Hails MIT Standouts in Science, Education, Energy, Health Care

(Clockwise from top) WiTricity, 3-D printing, the Copenhagen Wheel, and PillPack were among Time Magazine's top inventions of 2014.

Tech With MIT Roots Make Time’s Best Inventions List