The following email was sent today to the MIT faculty by Provost Martin Schmidt. A similar letter was subsequently sent to the graduate student community by Christine Ortiz, dean for graduate education.
To Members of the Faculty:
I am writing to share the draft report of the...
moreThe following email was sent today to the Institute community by Acting Provost Marty Schmidt and Executive Vice President and Treasurer Israel Ruiz.
To Members of the MIT Community:
As recommended by the Faculty Task Force on Community Engagement in 2030 Planning, MIT has...
moreMIT’s East Campus Steering Committee has selected a multidisciplinary urban design team to help advance plans for the redevelopment of Institute-owned property in East Campus and Kendall Square. The team will build upon the work of Elkus Manfredi Architects, which led to the adoption of new...
moreThis 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 its Kendall Square initiative was approved by the Cambridge City Council following a...
moreWhile at MIT, Ben Vigoda SM ’99, PhD ’03 patented technology that, in theory, allowed computer chips to calculate probabilities, enhancing computer-processing speed and capabilities while reducing power consumption. Starting a company to help bring this technology to market, however, was the...
moreOn Monday night, the Cambridge City Council voted to approve MIT’s petition to transform 26 acres of property it owns around Kendall Square. The vote caps a three-year process by which MIT sought alignment, both within the Institute and between the Institute and Cambridge, on the question of how...
moreMonday night, at the weekly meeting of the Cambridge City Council, MIT President L. Rafael Reif, accompanied by three senior faculty members, spoke during the public comment period about the Institute's proposed rezoning of 26 acres of land it owns in the Kendall Square area. The City Council is...
moreSecond in a two-part series (Read part one: "Birthplace of biotech")
At 8 Cambridge Center — in the heart of Kendall Square, a stone’s throw from MIT — sits the headquarters of Akamai Technologies...
moreFirst in a two-part series (Read part two: "From biotech to high-tech")
Kendall Square, the tech hub abutting MIT’s campus, is known today as an innovation powerhouse, thanks to its access to intellectual capital — primarily, talent...
Provost Chris A. Kaiser and Chancellor W. Eric Grimson have implemented one of the key recommendations that emerged from the report of the Task Force on Community Engagement in 2030 Planning. The Task Force, led by Tom Kochan, the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management in the MIT Sloan...
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