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PostMay 15, 2020

Congratulations to J-WAFS PI Susan Solomon recipient of the 2020-2021 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award

Portrait of Susan Solomon

The Killian Award, MIT's highest faculty honor, was recently awarded to Susan Solomon, a 2015 J-WAFS PI. Her research focuses on Earth’s climate system including transformative discoveries about ozone depletion in the Arctic that led to global policy change. Read more here.

by Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS)
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