Commencement 2024 | | | Congratulations, MIT Class of 2024! At Thursday’s OneMIT Commencement ceremony, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Noubar Afeyan urged the graduating class to take on seemingly impossible missions. Yesterday, undergraduates received their diplomas in Killian Court, while graduates who earned advanced degrees celebrated throughout the week with ceremonies around campus. Full story via MIT News → |
President Sally Kornbluth’s charge to the Class of 2024 “I have never seen a community quite like this one,” Kornbluth told graduates. Full story via MIT News → | |
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Chancellor Melissa Nobles’ address to MIT’s undergraduate Class of 2024 “You’ll continue to inspire and give to others that follow,” Nobles told this year’s graduating class. Full story via MIT News → | |
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Diane Hoskins ’79: How going off-track can lead new SA+P graduates to become integrators of ideas “Design is not a luxury,” the Gensler global co-chair told advanced degree recipients. “It’s for everyone, everywhere.” Full story via MIT News → | |
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Photos: School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences 2024 Advanced Degree Ceremony SHASS advanced degree recipients were honored May 30. Anna Russo PhD ’24 delivered the student address. Full story via MIT SHASS→ | |
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Photos: 2024 Engineering and Computing Advanced Degree Ceremony On May 29, graduates of master’s and doctoral programs in the MIT School of Engineering and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing were honored. Reshma Shetty PhD ’08, co-founder, president, and COO of Ginkgo Bioworks, gave the address. Full story via MIT Engineering→ | |
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MIT Corporation elects 10 term members, two life members The term members will serve between one and five years on MIT’s board of trustees. Full story via MIT News → | |
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The race to decarbonize heavy industry heats up // Inside Climate News MIT spinoff Electrified Thermal Solutions is developing electrically charged bricks that generate and store heat as part of an effort to replace fossil fuels. Full story via Inside Climate News→ |
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What a week! // The Boston Globe Senior Research Scientist C. Adam Schlosser, deputy director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, speaks about the 11th consecutive month of record high global temperatures and the overall pace of climate change. Full story via The Boston Globe → |
| | It’s your time to shine, Class of 2024! Illustration: Jenny Baek | 3,666 | Number of graduating MIT students receiving degrees this week | |