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Susan Silbey earns faculty’s prestigious Killian Award

Innovative sociologist of law granted MIT’s highest faculty honor.

Susan Silbey, an MIT sociologist whose pathbreaking work has examined the U.S. legal system as experienced in everyday life, has been named the recipient of the 2019-2020 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award.

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2018-2019 Killian Award Winner

Gerald Fink, an MIT biologist and former director of the Whitehead Institute, has been named the recipient of the 2018-2019 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award. Read more at MIT News.

Richard Schrock in classroom — 2017-2018 Killian Award Winner

Richard Schrock, a chemist renowned for his pioneering work in organometallic chemistry, is the recipient of the 2017-2018 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award.
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Killian Faculty Achievement Award

Susan Silbey earns faculty’s prestigious Killian Award

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