Awards – MIT Department of Chemistry

Six members of the Chemistry Community receive inaugural Mentorship Spotlight Award

The winners were nominated by students, postdocs, faculty, and staff in recognition of their exceptional commitment to mentorship.

Election to National Academy of Inventors Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.

Announced today by the AAAS, this biennial award is given in support of the advancement of women in the chemical sciences.

Choucri, Drennan, Fisher, Gershenfeld, Li, and Rus are recognized for their efforts to advance science.

Thirty-one MIT instructors honored for digital teaching excellence in extraordinary circumstances.

The annual awards ceremony was held virtually on August 31, 2020, and was broadcast via YouTube Live.

Sponsored by the Nakanishi Prize Endowment, this award is given in recognition of application of spectroscopy to biological phenomena.

The Talented 12 highlights early-career researchers in the chemical sciences who are fearlessly tackling difficult global problems.

Honor recognizes faculty mentors who devote true attention to students’ well-being.

The awards celebrate MIT faculty, staff, and students on their work with diversity, inclusion and social justice and off campus.

Alabugin (SB '20) has been named one of sixteen 2020 Fellows by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.

Award recognizes scholars who pursue graduate studies focusing on “bold, risk-taking research.”

Harris, Chemistry's Human Resources Administrator, was nominated for this prize for “being the glue that holds our remote staff together”.