An App That Can Fight Hunger
The issue of food waste is overwhelming, with up to 1.3 billion tons of food wasted annually, according to the United Nations. Equally as problematic, of course, is the issue of food scarcity or food...
View ArticleMLK Leadership Award Winner Gives Inspiration to Girls in STEM
Adriane Brown SM ’91 was eight years old in 1966, when she and her brother integrated a previously all-white school in Virginia. By sixth grade, she was class president. She’s been a leader ever since,...
View ArticleHelp Rebuild an MIT-Inspired School Destroyed by Nepal’s Earthquakes
When Ram Rijal ’12 graduated from MIT, he literally couldn’t wait to return to his native Nepal. He left campus on June 5, 2012—three days before his June 8 Commencement. After all, when your goal is...
View ArticleTaking STEM Education on the Road
On June 1, Drew Bent ’18 and Jorge Troncoso ’18 arrived in Washington, DC, after a nine-hour drive from Boston. The end of this trip marked the official start of their summer-long journey—biking across...
View ArticleRegister Today for MIT ALC: Sept. 25–26, 2015
MIT alumni volunteers are the Institute’s greatest ambassadors. And each year, hundreds of those ambassadors return to MIT campus for the Alumni Leadership Conference. The 2015 ALC takes place...
View ArticleMIT Externship Program: Full-Time Work, Short-Term Placement, and Long-Term...
MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) each January is a nearly 50-year-old tradition that gives students an opportunity to pursue interests outside MIT classrooms. For some, this means non-credit...
View ArticleHow Do You Hack Healthcare? Use Design Thinking.
MIT doesn’t have a medical school, so it might seem unusual that so many alumni and researchers are making a real-world impact in healthcare and medicine. But those two fields are rapidly evolving, and...
View ArticleWhy Come to ALC? Here are 10 Reasons.
The 2015 MIT Alumni Leadership Conference (ALC) is one month away. ALC is the Alumni Association’s cornerstone event for volunteers and alumni who want to reconnect or stay engaged with MIT. More than...
View ArticleThe FAQs of ALC: Online Registration Closes this Friday!
The 2015 MIT Alumni Leadership Conference (ALC) takes place later this month (Sept. 25–26) and online registration ends this Friday, Sept. 11. ALC is the signature event for MIT volunteers and alumni...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Thinkers and Doers Unite?
In the Boston area, we call it HUBweek, an intellectual festival and conference showcasing art, science, and technology, offering 40 events in Boston and Cambridge, and running October 3-10. Events...
View Article‘Staple a Green Card to Every Diploma’
When US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker sat down with MIT President L. Rafael Reif on Sept. 18, she elaborated on the connections between American’s success as innovators and entrepreneurs and...
View ArticleMore than One Thousand MIT Volunteers Participate in ALC 2015
The 2015 MIT Alumni Leadership Conference took place on Sept. 25-26 and a record 700 volunteers took part. In addition to the 700 attendees, overall participation for the weekend was more than 1,000...
View ArticleSolving Global Problems: Cure, Fuel, Learn, Make
The average lifespan in the developing world is 57. Worldwide measures are required to hold climate change to a 2-degree rise and even that will spur a new era of destructive storms and agricultural...
View ArticleWhen Parks and Recreation Meets Kickstarter
The point of civic projects is to meet the needs of the community—a statement that seems obvious—but after working for 10 years in civic technology Jase Wilson MCP ’08 found that this wasn’t always the...
View ArticleHow a Descendant of Thai Royalty Went from CEO to Education Advocate for...
Paron Israsena’s mother and father both trace their lineage to 19th-century Thai kings, and his family has a long tradition of public service in Thailand. But as Paron was growing up, the Siamese...
View ArticleIndia PM says MIT Tata Center “Changing Lives”
By Benjamin Miller, MIT Tata Center for Technology + Design Katherine Taylor SM ’15 and Michael Laracy SM ’15 have spent the last two years working to craft solutions to pressing problems in India. For...
View ArticlePodcast: Mindful Leadership with Assistant Professor Renée Richardson Gosline
The MIT community is more diverse than any time in Institute history. More than 30 percent of the 11,000-plus student body is from outside the United States, nearly 30 percent are members of U.S....
View Article2015 Bronze Beaver Recipients Share Unbridled Enthusiasm for MIT
When Bob Ferrara ’67 arrived on campus, he fell in love … with MIT. Like the other three alumni who recently earned the Alumni Association’s highest award, the Bronze Beaver, Ferrara has supported MIT...
View ArticleAlumna Connects STEM, Students, and will.i.am
There are rumors of musician will.i.am sitting in on classes at MIT, going undetected by MIT students. Those rumors are true according to Lilly Kam ’04, product manager at will.i.am’s tech company...
View ArticleVote for the AASC: Elect the Alumni Who Select the Board of Directors
The Alumni Association Selection Committee (AASC) is responsible for choosing the Alumni Association’s president select and all new term directors to the Association’s Board of Directors. In turn, the...
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