MIT Alumni

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[MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences @MIT_SHASS]

Time for laughs, MIT community! SHASS and the de Florez Fund for Humor present Stand Up Comedy Live! with comedian @AtsukoComedy Saturday 10/4 at 7pm in Kresge Auditorium! Get your FREE tickets at https://t.co/XheH2sTRop. @MITstudents @MIT_alumni

[University Icons @universityicons]

Today's featured university icon is the Maclaurin Building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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@MIT @MIT_alumni #MIT #MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology

[Asha Aravindakshan @DCasha]

#JLF Where the World Was Built featuring @arunNYC moderating @MIT Professors, hosted at @AsiaSociety @AsiaSocietyNY
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[MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences @MIT_SHASS]

Time for laughs, MIT community! SHASS and the de Florez Fund for Humor present Stand Up Comedy Live! with comedian @AtsukoComedy Saturday 10/4 at 7pm in Kresge Auditorium! Get your FREE tickets at https://t.co/XheH2sTRop. @MITstudents @MIT_alumni

[MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences @MIT_SHASS]

“AI is a powerful tool that has left underserved communities without representation, and I want to change this,” MIT alumna Faith Baca says. https://t.co/khJQxEBBKE @MITMath @MITEECS @MIT_alumni @MIT_Spectrum

[Cady Coleman @Astro_Cady]

#SharingSpace is featured in @MIT_alumni
Magazine! I’m so proud! I hope my stories about mission success- & failure- will catalyze conversations & connections across our community needed for solving today’s challenges
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@MIT @techreview @Penguinrandom

[MIT Alumni @MIT_alumni]

“I’m interested to provide students with the opportunity to earn a living wage in Hawai’i while staying true to traditional Hawaiian values.” ~Aja Grande PhD ’24 https://t.co/ITjsJ2Ffs6

[MIT Alumni @MIT_alumni]

This MIT spinout maps the body’s metabolites to uncover the hidden drivers of disease. https://t.co/CF7x46CTLu

[MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences @MIT_SHASS]

MIT alumna Netia McCray's nonprofit, @mbadika, focuses on ideas. She credits family and MIT for her success. "MIT produces thinkers and doers of impossible things," she says. https://t.co/9wqTo5AuYc @MIT_alumni @MITPoliSci @MISTIatMIT @MITESatMIT

[Kelvin Frazier, PhD @KelvinMusicLLC]

Quick clip from my last engagement! Thanks @MIT_alumni #techreunion for having me! #music #independentartist #originalmusic

[Aditya Pittie 🇮🇳 @PittieAditya]

Imagine a world without @MIT!
I am a proud alumnus of this great institution, whose mission is to tackle the most pressing problems facing the world today.
@MIT_alumni @MITSloanAlumni @MITEngineering @MITSloan
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[Aditya Pittie 🇮🇳 @PittieAditya]

This year the MIT Alumni Association (MITAA) marks 150 years of working to “further the well-being of the Institute and its graduates by increasing the interest of members in the school and in each other.”
@MIT_alumni @MIT
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[MIT Alumni @MIT_alumni]

Eggs are less likely to crack when dropped on their side, according to @MIT researchers https://t.co/P86b7cpJLq

[MIT Mathematics @MITMath]

Emeritus Professor David Vogan PhD '75 has rung the Old South Church bell, when the first-place Boston Marathon competitors cross the finish line, for 30 years. @ScienceMIT @MIT_alumni
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[MIT Mathematics @MITMath]

Congrats to MIT Math alum Rupert Li '24 and three others from MIT who were awarded the 2025 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships. @ScienceMIT @MIT_alumni https://t.co/4fjzdyNmsl

[MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences @MIT_SHASS]

What happens when pianists play? Research underway by Mi-Eun Kim and Praneeth Namburi seeks to reduce playing-related injuries and improve pedagogy. https://t.co/OQweEYNtWz @MIT_alumni @MIT_IMES @MIT_MTA @mit_nano

[ACS Engineering @ACSEngSafety]

The MIT Club gave out six awards at the recent Houston Science Engineering Fair on February 15. Our local MIT alumni @MIT_alumni who did the judging were (from left to right in the photo):
Arno Bommer
Emily Le Saab
Liz Jensen
Mike Bissell

This year’s winners and their winning projects were:
Cayson Wang of AST: Academy of Science and Technology - SmartPanel: An ML-Assisted Active Control System for Reducing Solar Array Vibrations of Satellites

Ashton Creasey of McCullough Junior High - Magnetohydrodynamic Thrusters

Carter Boland of Clear Creek High School - Tool-Changer For Robotic Arm

Chenhao Wang of The Village School - Plantar flexion torque assisted barefoot exoskeleton

Emily Alexander of York Junior High - Most Efficient Hydrualic Fluid

Alivia Hus of McCullough Junior High - The Capturing of Energy From Physical Movements

[The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe]

From @Globe_Tara: Aaron Leanhardt, the MIT-educated physicist turned baseball coach whose redesigned ‘torpedo bat’ is the talk of the game https://t.co/04wDWLqHKc

[MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences @MIT_SHASS]

"There is a solution to every problem, we just have to think of it," says MIT alum and Robert Muh Alumni Award winner Ray Kurzweil. https://t.co/OnE8lFh6nm @MIT_alumni

[MIT Alumni @MIT_alumni]

Fernando Goldsztein MBA ’03 launched a nonprofit to cure pediatric brain tumors. He’s now hoping to provide a playbook for fighting rare childhood diseases. https://t.co/rJEgsYFaEa