Michael J. Bailey memorializes the life and work of Otto Piene, professor emeritus of visual design and the former director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies. “Leavened by helium, tethered through hundreds of feet of fabric tubes, and animated by the wind, his figurative and abstract sculptures would become the kinetic centerpiece of grand-scale festivals,” writes Bailey.
Bruce Weber of The New York Times reports on the legacy of Professor Emeritus Otto Piene, who died on July 17. “So many of his ideas are relevant today, from project-oriented work, to discussion-led thinking, to the ephemeral; all of that is now commonplace,” says Joachim Jäger, head of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
Boston Globe reporter Bryan Marquard memorializes the life and work of MIT Professor John G. King. “John G. King wanted students, and essentially everyone else, to watch science unfold before their eyes. It was, he believed, the only way to truly learn a subject,” Marquard writes.
Douglas Martin writes for The New York Times about the late Professor Morris Adelman who died at his home in Newton on May 8. Adelman spent six decades as a faculty member in the MIT economics department.
Lisa Mickey of The New York Times profiles retired professor Leon S. White, who researches poetry inspired by golf. In 2011 White published “Golf Course of Rhymes: Links between Golf and Poetry throughout the Ages,” a collection of golf poems he compiled from around the world.
New York Times reporter William Yardley explores the legacy of MIT alumnus Patrick McGovern. “He was often referred to as ‘Uncle Pat’ by the thousands of employees at his company, and he was known for a determinedly human gesture in the cyberworld: traveling the planet to hand-deliver Christmas bonus checks of $500 to everyone who worked for him,” writes Yardley.
“Patrick J. McGovern, who became a billionaire as founder and majority owner of Boston-based technology publisher International Data Group, died March 19 at a hospital in Palo Alto, California,” writes Lawrence Arnold in The Washington Post.
“Mr. McGovern, who with his wife, Lore, gave $350 million to open the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, died Wednesday in Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif,” writes J. M. Lawrence in The Boston Globe.
Technology writer Glenn Rifkin joins WBUR’s Bob Oakes to discuss the life and career of Patrick McGovern, an MIT alumnus who donated $350 million to create the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Miller and Spencer Ante remember the life and legacy of Patrick McGovern, an MIT alumnus and founder of the McGovern Institute for brain research at MIT, who died Wednesday, March 19 at 76.