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Markita Landry (Miller Professor 2025-2026) was nominated for the inaugural UC Regents Innovation Awards

Markita Landry (Miller Professor 2025-2026) was nominated for the Disruptive Research Award for "creating biotechnologies without the expense, damage and stigmas associated with conventional genetic manipulation."

Markita Landry (Miller Professor 2025-2026) inaugural UC Regents Innovation Award

Shayan Oveis Gharan is awarded the IMU Abacus Medal 2026

Shayan Oveis Gharan (Miller Fellow 2013-2014) has won the IMU Abacus Medal 2026, that is given alongside the Fields Medals at the opening ceremony of the ICM, for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms.
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Jesse Thaler (Miller Fellow 2006-2009) named director of the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS).

Jesse Thaler is a theoretical particle physicist who combines techniques from quantum field theory and machine learning to address outstanding questions in fundamental physics. “The collaborative nature of his research programs will serve the Laboratory for Nuclear Science as science enters a new...

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Abigail Lee has been awarded 2025 IAU PhD Prize

Abby Lee was awarded the International Astronomical Union Division J (Galaxies and Cosmology) PhD Prize for her doctoral thesis “AGB Stars in the Era of NIR Astronomy: New Probes of Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution.” "Her work not only advances our understanding of cosmic expansion and galaxy...

Abby Lee, MF 2026-2029