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Feb 21, 2017 · Mildred S. Dresselhaus, a celebrated and beloved MIT professor whose research helped unlock the mysteries of carbon, the most fundamental of organic elements — earning her the nickname “queen of carbon science” — died Monday at age 86.
Sep 18, 2017 · Former MIT President Paul Gray, a devoted MIT leader whose career at the Institute included turns as a student, professor, dean of engineering, associate provost, chancellor, president, and MIT Corporation chair, has died after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
May 17, 2017 · MIT Corporation life member and biotechnology pioneer Henri A. Termeer, who led the iconic Genzyme Corporation for nearly three decades, with a strong focus on combating rare diseases, died on Friday night at his home in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He was 71.
Since there are more than 120,000 alumni (living and deceased), this listing cannot be comprehensive. Instead, this article summarizes some of the more notable MIT alumni, with some indication of the reasons they are notable in the world at large.
NameDegreeDegree YearNotabilityLt. Gen. James Alan Abrahamson (USAF ...B.S. – Aeronautical Engineering1955Director of President Ronald Reagan 's ...PhD – Economics1979Chair of the Federal Reserve BankScD – Chemical Engineering1965Secretary of Energy (2005–2009)B.S. – Aeronautical/Astronautical ...1994Mayor of Edison, New JerseyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology established a scholarship, and erected a large abstract environmental sculpture outdoors called the Sean Collier Memorial, both in memory of slain MIT Police officer Sean Collier. The open-arched monolithic stone enclosure was proposed, designed, funded, fabricated, and installed on campus in less than two years after the bombing, and formally unveiled ...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and science.
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2010: Material-based Design Computation, PhD-thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Awards and recognition. Oxman is a senior fellow in the Design Futures Council, and a Royal Designer for Industry in the UK. She has won the Vilcek Prize in Design, a National Design Award, and a SFMOMA Contemporary Vision Award.
