History of MIT

Recalling the 'Giant Leap'

July 17, 2009

MIT alumnus Buzz Aldrin PhD '63 descends NASA's Lunar Module on July 20, 1969, just prior to becoming the second human to walk on the moon.

Landing Apollo via Cambridge

Former MIT Instrumentation Lab member recalls his contribution to the safe landing of Apollo 11 on the lunar surface.

July 17, 2009

Smoot in stone

June 4, 2009

Stephen Dodd, Jay Forrester, Robert Everett, and Ramona Ferenz at Whirlwind I test control in the Barta Building, 1950.

Project Whirlwind comes home

Previously classified documents from first MIT digital computer being made public

May 22, 2009

LEES to be merged into RLE

April 16, 2009

Music at MIT hitting all the right notes

April 15, 2009

Sgt. Cheryl Vossmer of the MIT Police, left, and Libraries Administrative Assistant and Public Service Support Associate Ryan Gray measure parking space atop West Garage where vegetables, flowers and herbs will take the place of cars in MIT's first-ever community garden.

Gardeners on the roof

Vegetables, flowers to grow atop West Garage in sustainable agriculture exercise

April 8, 2009

MIT faculty open access to their scholarly articles

March 20, 2009

This sleighride was one of the first MIT Activities Committee (MITAC) events. MITAC is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with a party in the Stata Center on March 18.

MITAC turns 25

Open houses planned this week on main campus, Lincoln Laboratory

March 17, 2009

Senior guard Bradley Gampel drives to the basket during the MIT men's basketball team's NCAA Div. III tournament game against Rhode Island College on March 6.

Historic season ends for MIT men's basketball team

March 9, 2009

Choose the artifacts that tell the MIT story

February 12, 2009

Simons gift to fund autism research at MIT

February 11, 2009

Mass. General, MIT and Harvard launch innovative effort to search for AIDS vaccine

Phillip and Susan Ragon Institute will combine medical, scientific and engineering experts to unlock mysteries of the immune system

February 4, 2009

Phillip (Terry) and Susan Ragon hold a copy of The Boston Globe issue that announced the creation of the Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Institute. All the principals -- the Ragons as well as the leaders of MGH, MIT and Harvard -- signed the newspaper.

Alum's $100 million gift targets AIDS vaccine

Ragon Institute to tackle quintessential MIT problem

February 4, 2009

Numbers and words

New book chronicles rise of MIT math department

December 3, 2008

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