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Print Edition StoriesTuesday, February 26, 2008
MIT researchers win $50K Sloan Fellowships
Seven MIT faculty members have each won $50,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships, according to the school.
The school said the two-year grants are intended to enhance the careers of young professors in science fields.
The recipients at MIT are: Edward Boyden, assistant professor of research in education; Mikhail Golosov, Rudiger Dornbusch assistant professor of economics; Manolis Kellis, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science; Mohammad Movassaghi, assistant professor of chemistry; Aviv Regev, assistant professor of biology; Mehmet Fatih Yanik, assistant professor of electrical engineering; and Martin Zwierlein, assistant professor of physics.
The Sloan Foundation awards 118 fellowships annually, in the fields of chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics.
The Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic nonprofit based in New York. The foundation was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan, the former CEO of General Motors Corp.
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