Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1988) Young Scholar Award of the American Association of University Women (1988) Nobel Laureate Signature Award of the American Chemical Society (1993) MIT School of Science Teaching Prize (1993) Sylvia Teresse Ceyer is a professor of chemistry at MIT, holding the John C. Sheehan Chair in Chemistry.
In 1994, Ceyer was one of 16 women faculty in the School of Science at MIT who drafted and co-signed a letter to the then-Dean of Science (now Chancellor of Berkeley) Robert Birgeneau, which started a campaign to highlight and challenge gender discrimination at MIT.
The Corporation chose Susan Hockfield, a neurobiologist from Yale University to be MIT's next president.
"[3] Ceyer is a physical chemist whose main research interests lie in the interactions of molecules with surfaces.
This work is done in an ultra-high vacuum environment, because ambient gasses or liquids would otherwise modify the surface under study.
In 1993, Ceyer was given the Nobel Laureate Signature Award from the American Chemical Society and the School of Science Teaching Prize.