MIT community in 2023: A year in review
Top Institute stories dealt with a presidential inauguration, international accolades for faculty and students, “Dialogues Across Difference,” new and refreshed community spaces, and more.
Top Institute stories dealt with a presidential inauguration, international accolades for faculty and students, “Dialogues Across Difference,” new and refreshed community spaces, and more.
The highly influential professor served for 25 years as executive officer of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Former co-director of the Office of Government and Community Relations is remembered for his care and compassion.
Her demonstration of incorporating lattice strain as a means to enhance performance in scaled silicon devices has informed virtually every high-performance chip manufactured today.
A pioneering Black faculty member, Johnson was also a major supporter of the anti-apartheid movement at the Institute.
The lifelong athlete, pilot, aviation enthusiast, and educator taught at the Institute for 40 years.
The pathbreaking thinker helped reshape discussions of science, gender, and objectivity, as well as biological determinism, in her lauded career.
Pounds championed a generation of MIT Sloan faculty members and advised the broader Institute through the turbulent years of the Vietnam War.
The co-founding director of CICS, which later became LIDS, was a beloved professor who blended intellectual rigor with curiosity.
Coveney brought expertise and kindness to MIT, serving as an invaluable member of CTL for 23 years.
Faculty and staff recall Goldman’s unending commitment to his work for more than three decades.
A longtime beloved MIT faculty member, Thornton was an adventurer who advocated exploration in all aspects of life.
Over more than 50 years at MIT, he made fundamental contributions to quantum field theory and discovered topological and geometric phenomena.
Hax was a longtime MIT Sloan faculty member and co-creator of the Delta Model whose approach to customer bonding is still in use.
Longtime MIT faculty member led investigations into cosmic-ray physics and gamma-ray and X-ray astronomy.