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‘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...

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Campaign 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....

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Quiz Yourself

Freshman develops web tool for students worldwide

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Getting the China Story Right

Business book challenges conventional ideas about China's economy

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Enemy Invaders

Designing cancer-fighting drugs

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Saving the Coral

MIT expert is working to rescue the reefs

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Magnificent Desolation

Aldrin's new book celebrates 40th year of moon landing

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Educating Leaders

$25M gift to support scholarships

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Giving 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...

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On 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...

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Subtleties 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...

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Dreams 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,...

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Thinking 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...

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Advocate 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...

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Real-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...

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UROP at 40

Still unearthing new discoveries

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A 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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