MIT News Newsletter

	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
June 15, 2018
MIT News: around campus
A weekly digest of the Institute’s community news

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg tells MIT grads “it’s about people”

Commencement speaker says the greatest opportunities are for humans, not technology.

President L. Rafael Reif's charge to the Class of 2018

Reif urges graduates to “find your calling. Solve the unsolvable. Invent the future. Take the high road.”

At doctoral hooding ceremony, a call to make the world “more just, more fair”

Candis Callison SM ’02, PhD ’10, professor and journalist, tells doctoral graduates they can “shift society” for the better.

Metropolitan Storage Warehouse is potential new location for School of Architecture and Planning

Historic building would create “design hub” for MIT, with benefits for surrounding community.

Prime Minister António Costa of Portugal champions innovation in MIT talk

Visit follows renewal of popular MIT Portugal Program.

Scene at MIT: PhD baby and her amazing mama

A new daughter helped Alejandra Falla PhD ’18 gain perspective on life — and her tiny MIT regalia stole the show at Commencement.

MIT Corporation elects 10 term members, two life members

Term members will each serve one, three, or five years on MIT’s board of trustees.

In the Media

The Economist spotlights the experience of several MIT graduates who have started their own companies in a piece about teaching entrepreneurship. The Economist notes that MIT alumna Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola credits a course she took at MIT with helping her, “gain confidence in pitching to a room full of investors.”

Institute Prof. Sheila Widnall co-chaired a new report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, which examines the prevalence of sexual harassment in higher ed. The authors “call for a ‘systemwide change to the culture and climate in higher education’ in order to address the issue and prevent harassment,” report Ellie Kaufman and Evan Simko-Bednarski for CNN.

Boston Globe reporter Sophia Eppolito writes that during MIT’s 2018 Commencement exercises, speakers stressed the importance of uniting to create a better world. “We all strive to see the world, not as a zero-sum game, but as positive-sum — as a world where generous collaboration makes each collaborator smarter, stronger, and richer in every way,” said MIT President L. Rafael Reif.

Abigail Hess of CNBC writes that MIT has been named the best university in the world by QS for the seventh consecutive year in a row. “No other university has managed such a long run at the top,” notes Hess.