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3 weeks ago | 
thetech.com | Alex Tang
Shashata Sawmya, a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department and member of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), passed away in Canada while attending an academic conferenceShashata Sawmya, a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department and member of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), passed away in Canada while attending an academic conference.
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3 weeks ago | 
thetech.com | Veronika Moroz |Karie Shen |Alex Tang
Green: “Keeping oriented toward people – not building around them as an obstacle, but building for them – is the thing that I wanted to be focused on”On May 29 at the OneMIT Commencement Ceremony, science communicator Hank Green delivered the commencement speech to the graduating class of 2025: silly but pensive, scientific yet humanistic. Green openly engaged with the graduating class, joking that some people were seated close enough to the podium that he could almost “crowd-work” them.
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1 month ago | 
thetech.com | Alex Tang
Khoury has served in various leadership capacitiesIn an email to the MIT community on May 6, Provost Cynthia Barnhart SM ’86, Ph.D. ’88 announced that Professor Philip Khoury will step down as Vice Provost of the Arts on Aug. 31.
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1 month ago | 
thetech.com | Vivian Hir |Sabine Chu |Alex Tang
Kornbluth: “I really believe that science and technology — the R&D investments that have been made in universities in partnership with the government — are the key drivers of American success”On April 30, The Tech interviewed President Sally Kornbluth with a focus on federal funding cuts affecting the Institute’s finances and research efforts in fields such as the life sciences and climate science.
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2 months ago | 
thetech.com | Alex Tang
Current lawsuit parallels earlier response to cuts to National Institutes of Health fundingOn April 14, MIT President Sally Kornbluth wrote in an email to the MIT community that the Institute had joined several peer schools and higher education associations in a lawsuit to stop indirect cost cuts to grants provided via the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
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2 months ago | 
thetech.com | Alex Tang
Dr. G. Anthony Grant: “This is a devastating loss for our athletics department and for the MIT community”Karenna Groff ’22 MEng ’23 and James Santoro ’23 passed away in a private plane accident on April 12. Four others on board also passed, including Groff’s parents, Dr. Michael Groff and Dr. Joy Saini; her brother Jared and his partner, Alexia Couyutas Duarte. Groff majored in Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and earned her MEng from the same department.
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2 months ago | 
thetech.com | Alex Tang
Grodzins was a pioneer in nuclear physics research and a science policy advocateLee Grodzins, Professor Emeritus in Physics, died on March 6 at the age of 98. Grodzins was a pioneer in nuclear physics research. A talented experimentalist, Grodzins determined the helicity of the neutrino, an electrically neutral particle that interacts only through gravity and a fundamental force known as the weak interaction. Grodzins came to MIT in 1959 and was a faculty member for 40 years.
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2 months ago | 
thetech.com | Alex Tang
Professor Troy Van Voorhis: “He was a constant source of joy to those who interacted with him and his commitment to students and education was legendary”Frederick Greene, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, died on March 22 at the age of 97. Greene worked in the field of physical organic chemistry and free radicals.
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2 months ago | 
thetech.com | Alex Tang
Multiple NCAA records and All-American finishes by MIT Swim and Dive at the Division III National ChampionshipFrom March 19 to March 22, MIT Swimming and Diving competed at the NCAA Division III Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. The women won their first national championship in program history and the men finished ninth.
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2 months ago | 
thetech.com | Vivian Hir |Alex Tang
Graduate student Richard Solomon: “We came out at this rally to reaffirm the demands of the student referendum to keep ICE and DHS off campus”On March 21, dozens gathered outside the steps of the Student Center to protest the arrest of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil and voice concerns regarding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities on college campuses. The rally was organized by the MIT Coalition for Palestine (C4P) and MIT Jews for Collective Liberation (JCL).
