Smoot lighting to set the mood on Harvard Bridge
An anonymous gift will pay for LED bulbs that will illuminate the bridge every 30 Smoots.
AeroAstro turns 100
Nine astronaut alumni and Elon Musk join in celebrating department’s centennial.
Boxes, books, and bananas: A peek at the MIT Science Fiction Society
Founded in 1949, group now maintains what may be the world’s largest open-shelf collection of science fiction.
How to build a biotech renaissance: MIT in Kendall Square
A look back at how Institute Professor Phillip Sharp, his startup Biogen, and MIT’s biotech community helped revive Kendall Square.
MIT community celebrates the life of Charles M. Vest
Actions of MIT’s 15th president have ‘grown to inspire generations,’ Reif says.
Charles Vest memorial service set for March 6
MIT community will gather to honor and celebrate the life of the Institute’s 15th president, who died Dec. 12.
3 Questions: Arindam Dutta on MIT and architectural modernism
New book, edited by MIT architectural historian, examines the evolution of modernism during its postwar heyday at the Institute.
Elizabeth Johnson, widow of former MIT president Howard Johnson, dies at 92
Known for her ‘warmth, kindness, and gracious good sense’ during campus upheaval in the late 1960s, Johnson helped lead MIT at a divisive time.
Former MIT president Charles M. Vest dies at 72
As the Institute’s leader from 1990 to 2004, he sparked a period of dynamism.
JFK and MIT: Honoring the connection
Hear John F. Kennedy’s message delivered for MIT's centennial, read coverage of the campus response to the assassination, and more.
MIT’s Lobby 10 to be renamed in honor of fallen veterans
Already home to war memorials, central campus location to get official new name: ‘Memorial Lobby.’
Commemorating the LORAN
One of the MIT Radiation Lab’s first creations, a radio navigation system, recognized by the IEEE as a ‘milestone’ in engineering.
Cambridge Historical Commission lauds Great Dome renovation
Restoration of oculus and Barker Library Reading Room celebrated.
President L. Rafael Reif's Charge to the Graduates
'I am certain you will use what you have learned here to make the world a better place.'