On Wednesday, June 5, 13 people and 4 groups had been awarded MIT Excellence Awards — the very best awards for employees on the Institute. Colleagues holding indicators, waving pompoms, and cheering gathered in Kresge Auditorium to point out their assist for the honorees. Along with the Excellence Awards, employees members had been honored with the Collier Medal, the Employees Award for Distinction in Service, and the Gordon Y. Billard Award.
The Collier Medal honors the reminiscence of Officer Sean Collier, who gave his life defending and serving MIT; it celebrates a person or group whose actions reveal the significance of group. The Employees Award for Distinction in Service is offered to a employees member whose service ends in a constructive lasting impression on the Institute.
The Gordon Y. Billard Award is given yearly to employees, college, or an MIT-affiliated particular person(s) who has given “particular service of excellent benefit carried out for the Institute.” This yr, for the primary time, this award was offered on the MIT Excellence Awards and Collier Medal celebration.
The 2024 MIT Excellence Award recipients and their award classes are:
- Modern Options
- The Peterson (1957) Nanotechnology Supplies Core Facility stafff, Koch Institute for Integrative Most cancers Analysis, Workplace of the Vice President for Analysis (Margaret Bisher, Giovanni de Nola, David Mankus, and Dong Soo Yun)
- Bringing Out the Finest
- Salvatore Ieni
- James Kelsey
- Lauren Pouchak
- Serving Our Group
- Megan Chester
- Alessandra Davy-Falconi
- David Randall
- Days Weekend Crew, Division of Custodial Companies, Division of Amenities: Karen Melisa Betancourth, Ana Guerra Chavarria, Yeshi Khando, Joao Pacheco, and Kevin Salazar
- IMES/HST Educational Workplace Crew, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, College of Engineering: Traci Anderson, Joseph R. Stein, and Laurie Ward
- Crew Leriche, Division of Custodial Companies, Division of Amenities: Anthony Anzalone, David Solomon Carrasco, Larrenton Forrest, Michael Leriche, and Joe Vieira
- Embracing Range, Fairness, and Inclusion
- Bhaskar Pant
- Jessica Tam
- Excellent Contributor
- Paul W. Barone
- Marcia G. Davidson
- Steven Kooi
- Tianjiao Lei
- Andrew H. Mack
2024 MIT Excellence Awards + Collier Medal Ceremony
The 2024 Collier Medal recipient was Benjamin B. Lewis, a graduate pupil within the Institute for Information, Techniques and Society within the MIT Schwarzman Faculty of Computing. Final spring, he based the Cambridge department of Finish Overdose, a nonprofit devoted to lowering drug-related overdose deaths. Via his efforts, greater than 600 members of the Better Boston group, together with many at MIT, have been skilled to manage lifesaving remedy at vital moments.
This yr’s recipient of the 2024 Employees Award for Distinction in Service was Diego F. Arango (Division of Custodial Companies, Division of Amenities), daytime custodian in Constructing 46. He was nominated by no fewer than 36 employees, college, college students, and researchers for making a constructive working atmosphere and for providing “assist each time, wherever, and to whomever wants it.”
Three group members had been honored with a 2024 Gordon Y. Billard Award
- Deborah G. Douglas, senior director of collections and curator of science and know-how, MIT Museum
- Ronald Hasseltine, assistant provost for analysis administration, Workplace of the Vice President for Analysis
- Richard Ok. Lester, vice provost for worldwide actions and Japan Metal Business Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
Presenters included President Sally Kornbluth; MIT Chief of Police John DiFava and Deputy Chief Steven DeMarco; Vice President for Human Assets Ramona Allen; Government Vice President and Treasurer Glen Shor; Provost Cynthia Barnhart; Lincoln Laboratory director Eric Evans; Chancellor Melissa Nobles; and Dean of the College of Engineering Anantha Chandrakasan.
Go to the MIT Human Assets web site for extra details about the award recipients, classes, and to view photographs and video of the occasion.
