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Webcast: Women on Boards ~ Good for Business?
Leadership on Boards speakers Sonnabend, Parrish, and Johnson. In short, yes, says Michele Parrish SM ’05, founder of Women Leaders in Global Operations (WLGO), an MIT alumnae group. “In a nutshell,...
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Welcoming the MIT 5
Class of 2018 members, from left, Reymundo Cano, Andrew Koh, Kevin Escobar Rodriguez, GiMin Choi and William Lopez-Cordero. Was it founding school clubs together or being in many of the same classes at...
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Rocker Tom Scholz ’69, SM ’70, Shows ‘Secret Life’
Tom Scholz ’69, SM ’70 interviewed recently for the Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers. Not many people become rock musicians at MIT, but one, Tom Scholz ’69, SM ’70, began a music revolution...
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Follow Live Tweets, Commencement Webcast
Mortar board art: Doc Edgerton’s famous droplet gets a salute. Photo: Christine Tempesta. Under the sunny skies of today’s 148th Commencement, the Institute awarded degrees to 990 undergraduate and...
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“Physics Girl” Wins Alan Alda’s Flame Challenge
What is color? That was the challenge posed by actor/science advocate Alan Alda in his annual Flame Challenge, which invited scientists to invent accurate, vivid answers to the deceptively simple...
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Should You Make A Career Change?
Samantha Sutton changed her career to life coach. Guest blogger: Samantha Sutton PhD ’08 According to the US Department of Labor, the typical American worker stays with each employer for a little over...
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Rosenfield Family Hits Double Digit MIT Degrees
Todd Rosenfield, center, received two degrees at Commencement, bringing the family’s MIT degree total to 10. With him are, from left, his wife, Runa; mother, Nancy; father, Don; and brother, Adam....
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Chatting with Obama @White House Maker Faire
Sara Ann Wylie PhD ’11 holds an aerial mapping kit at the White House Maker Faire. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls “There’s a giant red weather balloon in the Rose Garden,” POTUS tweeted to Sara Ann Wylie...
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Now Aloft: Sophomore Circumnavigates the World
MIT sophomore Matt Guthmiller, 19, is well on his way to setting a new record as the youngest pilot to circumnavigate the world solo. As of today, Guthmiller is more than half-way done with his 29,000...
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FingerReader to Offer Affordable, Real-Time Help
A computer voice speaks the words as the viewer points. What’s new at MIT? Here’s one thing: the FingerReader, a wearable device that assists in reading printed text, developed in the Media Lab’s Fluid...
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