‘Part of the Team’
So many families are touched by cancer,” says Jen Johnson. “I have cancer myself. My dream is that the MIT researchers will develop a vaccine so people will never get this disease. And I think they can...
View ArticleCampaign for Students Connects Institute Priorities
MIT’s Campaign for Students launched publicly in October 2008, and aims to raise at least $500 million to fund scholarships and fellowships, along with major new support for student life and learning....
View ArticleGetting the China Story Right
Business book challenges conventional ideas about China's economy
View ArticleGiving Back
My career benefited in the early years by having great quantitative skills in an era when they were almost nonexistent on Wall Street. I made my biggest run up the organization chart in the areas of...
View ArticleOn the Frontier
I’ve been blessed to go to MIT,” says Christopher Love. “I feel I have an opportunity and also an obligation to use this tremendous experience to make a positive impact on the world.” Now, the...
View ArticleSubtleties of Washington
You get so wrapped up in the political atmosphere,” says Hannah Farrow, a 20-year-old economics major, who recently spent 10 weeks working at MIT’s office in Washington, D.C., studying the role of...
View ArticleDreams Are Possible
I grew up in a country where the thinking was closed,” says Anna Kotova, who was raised in western Russia. “We didn’t have many resources. Whatever I wanted to do, I felt I couldn’t.” Now, she says,...
View ArticleThinking Big
Kai Yuet — who was raised in a small Oklahoma town — says UROP taught him to think big. “Now, I’m always thinking, ‘What can I do for society?’” he says. The 21-year-old senior, who has participated in...
View ArticleAdvocate for the Disabled
Tish Scolnik is an advocate for the disabled. The 20-year-old junior, who recently spent several weeks in Tanzania designing wheelchairs, has dreamed up a way to put the disabled to work. Employers...
View ArticleReal-World Learning
Folkers Rojas — who was born in Nicaragua and raised in Miami — never heard of MIT until he was 17 and a teacher suggested he apply. “I had money to apply to only two schools,” he says. “If I didn’t...
View ArticleA Letter from the President
For MIT faculty, grappling with the most intractable problems of our time is just another day’s work — from battling poverty to combating cancer, from designing “smart” cities to inventing new...
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