MIT community in 2021: A year in review
Top Institute stories dealt with the return to campus and continued response to Covid-19, MIT’s commitments to climate action, its support of a diverse community, and more.
Top Institute stories dealt with the return to campus and continued response to Covid-19, MIT’s commitments to climate action, its support of a diverse community, and more.
The trailblazing Black mathematician fought to bring more students from underrepresented groups into science and engineering fields.
Alumnus, materials manufacturer, and passionate photography collector forged connections between art, science, and technology at the Institute.
Over 50 years at MIT, Dresselhaus made lasting contributions to materials science within the research group of longtime collaborator and wife, Mildred Dresselhaus.
The recently tenured professor, who joined the MIT faculty in 2013, studied the structure and dynamics of soft matter.
A specialist in algebraic geometry, the long-standing professor and former department head was influential across the Institute as an innovator in teaching first-year students.
Over a career spanning five decades, Frey pioneered the use of new techniques to study the Earth’s mantle.
Probstein’s research had diverse applications in fields including aeronautics, energy, desalination, and soil decontamination.
A former department head who established the MEng degree for EECS undergraduates, Penfield developed courses illuminating the equivalence of information and thermodynamic entropy.
Pioneer in the science of humans in space remembered for far-reaching impact on his field and the people closest to him.
Longtime EECS faculty member was known for his work on the biophysics of auditory systems.
Pioneering scientist isolated, characterized, and established the mechanisms of many environmental toxins relevant to public health.
Wang, who founded the China-based media activism nonprofit NGO2.0, taught at MIT since 2001.
Longtime faculty member was a pioneer in developing the computer programming systems used in structural design.
In over four decades at MIT, Kerwin led the marine propeller research program, pioneered the use of computation in propeller design, and developed a new system for yacht racing.