President Ollanta Humala of Peru visits MIT
Ollanta Humala, the president of Peru, visited the MIT campus on Wednesday, meeting with MIT President L. Rafael Reif, faculty members and students. Humala was accompanied by a delegation that included...
View ArticleEdmund Bertschinger appointed as Institute Community and Equity Officer
Edmund Bertschinger, a physicist who has led both his department and the Institute to foster a culture of inclusion, will become MIT’s Institute Community and Equity Officer (ICEO). The new position...
View ArticleAmar Bose ’51, SM ’52, ScD ’56, Bose Corporation’s founder, has died at 83
Amar Bose ’51, SM ’52, ScD ’56, a former member of the MIT faculty and the founder of Bose Corporation, has died. He was 83. Dr. Bose received his bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and doctorate from...
View ArticleLetter to MIT community from L. Rafael Reif regarding a Swartz-related court...
Today, the Tech published the following letter from MIT President L. Rafael Reif concerning a recent court action taken by MIT.Dear Editors,On Friday, July 19, I received a concerned email from a...
View ArticleMIT releases report on its actions in the Aaron Swartz case
A much-anticipated report on MIT’s actions in relation to the case of Aaron Swartz, a young computer programmer and Internet activist who committed suicide in January, finds no wrongdoing on MIT’s...
View ArticleLetter to MIT community from L. Rafael Reif regarding release of Swartz report
MIT President L. Rafael Reif sent the following letter to the Institute community regarding today's release of the “MIT and the Prosecution of Aaron Swartz” report. To the members of the MIT...
View ArticleKendall Square initiative moves toward design phase
This fall, MIT will select an urban-design firm to help it develop and complete a design plan for the redevelopment of Institute-owned property in Kendall Square. In April, MIT’s rezoning petition for...
View Article‘The world needs students with an MIT education’
Formally convening MIT’s Class of 2017 for the first time, President L. Rafael Reif yesterday welcomed first-year students, and their families, to the Institute.Reif was joined in his remarks at the...
View ArticlePresident Reif to hold office hours during this academic year
Starting this month, MIT President L. Rafael Reif will set aside two-hour blocks throughout the academic year for 15-minute meetings with MIT faculty, students and staff. Reif held similar blocks of...
View ArticleChris Kaiser to step down as provost, return to the faculty
Following nine years of service as a departmental and Institute administrator, Provost Chris Kaiser announced today that he plans to step down next month, returning to his post as a professor of...
View ArticleLetter to the community regarding Kaiser announcement
The following email was sent today to the Institute community by MIT President L. Rafael Reif.To the members of the MIT community: I write to share the news that MIT Provost Chris Kaiser has decided to...
View ArticleLetter to the community regarding Newton announcement
The following email was sent today to the Institute community by MIT President L. Rafael Reif.To the members of the MIT community: After a career of accomplishment in service to some of the nation's...
View ArticleVice President for Resource Development Jeffrey Newton to retire
Jeffrey Newton, who has served since 2007 as MIT’s vice president for resource development, has announced his intention to retire. In an email today sharing the news with the MIT community, President...
View ArticleReif to co-chair renewed US manufacturing partnership
At the invitation of President Barack Obama, MIT President L. Rafael Reif will co-chair the administration’s renewed Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), dubbed AMP 2.0, the White House announced...
View ArticleAchieving an innovation nation
The U.S. economy retains myriad sources of innovative capacity — but not enough of the innovations occurring in America today reach the marketplace, according to a major two-year MIT study presented at...
View ArticleTask Force on the Future of MIT Education works toward preliminary report...
As the Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education works toward its expected release of a preliminary report this fall, hundreds of members of the MIT community — including more than half...
View ArticleLetter announcing new associate deans for innovation
The following email was sent today to the MIT faculty by David Schmittlein, John C Head III Dean at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Ian A. Waitz, dean of the School of Engineering and the...
View ArticleLetter to the community regarding the creation of an MIT Innovation Initiative
The following email was sent today to the Institute community by MIT President L. Rafael Reif.To the members of the MIT Community, In my Inaugural remarks, I celebrated MIT’s record of success in...
View ArticleReif announces plans to launch an MIT Innovation Initiative
President L. Rafael Reif has announced his intention to create an MIT Innovation Initiative, and has selected two faculty members to lead the effort.In an email today to the MIT community, Reif named...
View ArticleLetter regarding new roles for Grimson, Schmidt
The following email was sent today to the Institute community by MIT President L. Rafael Reif.To the members of the MIT community, I write to let you know about two important changes in leadership....
View ArticleGrimson to assume key role in fundraising campaign; Schmidt to serve as...
Chancellor W. Eric Grimson will assume a key role in MIT’s upcoming fundraising campaign, President L. Rafael Reif announced today, working closely with the Institute’s faculty and students to ensure...
View ArticleMIT’s Lobby 10 to be renamed in honor of fallen veterans
Lobby 10, an area below MIT’s Great Dome that has long been a gathering place and site of spontaneous performances, will soon receive a new official designation: On Nov. 18, it will be renamed...
View ArticleDuPont CEO Ellen Kullman will be MIT’s 2014 Commencement speaker
Ellen Kullman, trained as a mechanical engineer and now chair of the board and CEO of DuPont, will deliver the address at MIT’s 148th Commencement exercises on Friday, June 6, in Killian Court.Kullman...
View ArticleLetter regarding preliminary report of the Institute-wide Task Force on the...
The following email was sent today to the Institute community by MIT President L. Rafael Reif.To the members of the MIT community: I write to share the preliminary report of the Institute-wide Task...
View ArticleReif releases preliminary report of the Institute-Wide Task Force on the...
President L. Rafael Reif has released the preliminary report of the Institute-Wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education — a document that, following months of engagement with the MIT community,...
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