MIT Press congratulates our 2021 PROSE Award finalists
January 22, 2021
8 MIT Press books are finalists in this year’s AAP PROSE Awards.
Category: Awards
Two MIT Press books win 2020 PROSE Awards
February 25, 2020
Decomposed and On the Brink of Paradox named category winners for the Association of American Publishers (AAP) 2020 PROSE Awards.
MIT Press books take home 2019 CHOICE Awards
January 22, 2020
The MIT Press takes home Outstanding Academic Titles for 2019 by CHOICE
Congratulations to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer on Being Awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
October 15, 2019
With news that Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, the number of Nobel laureates featured in The State of Economics, The State of the World edited by Kaushik Basu, David Rosenblatt and Claudia Sepúlveda doubles from three to six.
Celebrating our colleagues with the Infinite Mile Awards
June 14, 2019
As part of the Association of University Presses blog tour in honor of University of Virginia Press director Mark Saunders, we present an overview of the Infinite Mile Awards our colleagues received this month.
MIT Press authors, editors, and contributors selected as 2019 Guggenheim Fellows
April 17, 2019
On April 10, 2019, the list of 168 scholars, artists, and writers selected as winners of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s 2019 fellowships was announced. We are thrilled that seven MIT Press authors, editors, and contributors are among the recipients of this prestigious honor.
Two MIT Press books take home 2019 PROSE Awards
January 31, 2019
Congratulations to our PROSE Award-winning authors: Meredith Broussard (Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World) and David W. Clark (Designing an Internet).
Mismatch wins 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in Innovation and Creativity
January 18, 2019
Congratulations to Kat Holmes, author of Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design on winning the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in the Innovation and Creativity category. The award committee called the book a “critical blueprint for how designers and creators can work against long-held ability biases so often employed when planning and problem solving.”
Stephanie Feuer wins 2018 MIT Press Pitchfest at the Boston Book Festival
October 29, 2018
MIT Press Pitchfest winner Stephanie Feuer describes her winning project on scent and human sensibilities.
Tiago Saraiva awarded 2017 Pfizer Prize
November 14, 2017
We are thrilled to announce that this year’s Pfizer Prize, sponsored by the History of Science Society (HSS), was awarded to Tiago Saraiva for his recent book Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism.