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The perks of being MIT alumni

You can also stay connected to other alumni by keeping your personal and professional information up-to-date on a secure platform.  The IC is your go-to for setting your contact preferences, including email... Read more »

Building tomorrow’s world in words

WRAP, part of Comparative Media Studies/Writing (CMS/W), improves students’ communication skills through four communications-intensive undergraduate requirements. “We help students understand the central genres in their discipline,” she says. “How do you make... Read more »

A search engine for shapes

Born and raised in Shanghai, Tan came to MIT to study high-energy astrophysics and wrote his dissertation on computational modeling of neutron stars. “Coming from China at that time, I had very... Read more »

Ten to One founder aims to change people’s perception of rum

When he arrived in Cambridge as a first-year student, Farrell did not expect to end up in the spirits industry. “I was a 16-year-old when I got to MIT, and I don’t... Read more »

Building the next version of the internet

When she founded the company in 2017, she and her team chose an industry that was already familiar with AR: gaming. In November 2019, Illumix launched Five Nights at Freddy’s, a mobile... Read more »

Dynamic duo

Robert Downey Jr. got to wear Iron Man’s suit playing fictional MIT alum Tony Stark on the big screen. But he marveled at what he called “real-world technology miracles” when he met... Read more »

Alan ’72 and Joan Henricks

“MIT was a very humbling experience for me,” says Alan Henricks, one of the first generation in his Midwestern family to attend college. “But at the end of four years, it also... Read more »

This obscure shopping app is now America’s most downloaded

Take a deep breath. The Chinese Communist Party Congress news cycle is (basically) over.  There are many significant things from the high-level political assembly to talk about, mostly around understanding what the... Read more »

The Download: eternal youth, and the hunt for new metals

A little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made a remarkable discovery. When they added just four proteins to a skin cell and waited about two weeks, some... Read more »

How scientists want to make you young again

For now, no one has a firm idea what these future treatments could look like. Some say they will be genetic therapies added to people’s DNA; others expect it’s possible to discover... Read more »