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Eleven MIT faculty receive Presidential Early Career Awards

Faculty members and additional MIT alumni are among 400 scientists and engineers recognized for outstanding leadership potential.

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With generative AI, MIT chemists quickly calculate 3D genomic structures

A new approach, which takes minutes rather than days, predicts how a specific DNA sequence will arrange itself in the cell nucleus.

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A new vaccine approach could help combat future coronavirus pandemics

The nanoparticle-based vaccine shows promise against many variants of SARS-CoV-2, as well as related sarbecoviruses that could jump to humans.

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Student Program for Innovation in Science and Engineering is a launching pad toward possibility

Gifted Caribbean high schoolers become SPISE alumni at MIT, and many go on to advanced academic and professional careers.

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Yifan Quan wins the Longuet-Higgins Early Career Researcher Prize from Molecular Physics

Quan is a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Robert Guy Griffin's research group.

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Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. Appointed Associate Editor of JACS

Established in 1879, the Journal of the American Chemical Society is the flagship journal of the American Chemical Society.

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A launching pad towards possibility: SPISE alumni at MIT

Student Program for Innovation in Science and Engineering is an intensive summer program for high school students offered by the Caribbean Science Foundation.

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Artifacts from a half-century of cancer research

Ten objects on display in the Koch Institute Public Galleries offer uncommon insights into the people and progress of MIT's cancer research community.

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Troy Van Voorhis to step down as department head of chemistry

Professor oversaw department growth, strengthened community, and developed outreach programs.

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Joshua Baraban (PhD ’13) awarded the Israel Chemical Society’s Prize for Outstanding Young Scientist Award

Baraban, an alumnus of Professor Robert W. Field's research group, is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

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Zachary Fried wins 2024 Rao Prize

The International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy has named Fried one of three winners of this year's Rao Prize.

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Startup gives surgeons a real-time view of breast cancer during surgery

The drug-device combination developed by MIT spinout Lumicell is poised to reduce repeat surgeries and ensure more complete tumor removal.

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MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches postdoctoral program to advance AI across disciplines

The new Tayebati Postdoctoral Fellowship Program will support leading postdocs to bring cutting-edge AI to bear on research in scientific discovery or music.

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