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HST faculty member wins BMW Science Award
12-12-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Ali Khademhosseini has won first prize in the doctoral thesis category of the 2007 BMW Science Award competition. The award was presented to six young scientists, three in the doctoral and three in the bachelor's/master's thesis categories.
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- Four MIT faculty win NIH awards
09-18-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Professor Emery Brown will receive a 2007 Pioneer Award from NIH, while Professors Ed Boyden, Alan Jasanoff and Mehmet Fatih Yanik will be honored with New Innovator Awards. All four were cited by NIH for their "exceptionally innovative" research.
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- The science of collective decision-making
09-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
Why do some juries take weeks to reach a verdict, while others take just hours? How do judges pick the perfect beauty queen from a sea of very similar candidates? We have all wondered exactly why we did not win a certain award. Now, new psychological research explains how groups come to a collective decision.
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- Levenson wins science film award
06-27-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Thomas Levenson, associate professor of science writing at MIT, has won the inaugural Walter P. Kistler Science Documentary Film Award for his work on the NOVA miniseries "Origins."
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- Venus Express wins Popular Science's 'Best of What's New' award
11-14-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Venus Express just received an extra birthday present. In the same week as the first anniversary of the spacecraft's launch, the editors of Popular Science magazine named Venus Express as one of the top 100 technological innovations of the year.
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- Dresselhaus wins L'Oréal-UNESCO Award
02-22-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
MIT Institute Professor Mildred Dresselhaus is the North American winner of a 2007 L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science. Dresselhaus was selected for "conceptualizing the creation of carbon nanotubes," according to L'Oréal and UNESCO.
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- University staff member wins structural engineering supreme award
11-26-2007 · University of Bath
The Supreme Award for Structural Engineering Excellence has been awarded to Professor Richard Harris of the University of Bath's BRE Centre in Innovative Construction Materials (BRE CICM), also Senior Associate at Bath's Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, at the Institution of Structural Engineers 2007 awards.
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- Keys to clean energy development
05-08-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Genzyme founder and Harvard professor George Whitesides says spending a lot of money on energy problems 'just doesn't work when the science isn't there.' Whitesides, a former MIT faculty member, spoke at an MIT energy colloquium on May 1.
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- Open Science Grid Receives $30 Million Award to Empower Scientific Collaboration and Computation
09-25-2006 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
Scientists on the track to discovery got good news this month when a powerful computing tool received critical government funding. A five-year, $30 million award to the Open Science Grid Consortium, announced by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, will operate and expand the Open Science Grid, a computing environment used by scientists to harness computing resources and scientific data from around the world.
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- MIT nutrition scientist celebrates a milestone
01-18-2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
It's not every day that one of MIT's Institute Professors Emeritus--the elite of the faculty--celebrates a 90th birthday. But Nevin S. Scrimshaw, who founded MIT's Department of Nutrition and Food Science, reaches that milestone on Sunday, Jan. 20.
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- Ward Melville High School Wins Science Bowl at Brookhaven Lab
02-13-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
For the fourth consecutive year, Ward Melville High School took first place in the Regional Science Bowl at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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