Dina Katabi Works to Bring Personalized Medicine Home

Consider a 75-year-old we’ll call Gordon. One day in late February 2020, he had a myocardial infarction—a heart attack—and was rushed to the hospital. Fortunately, …

MIT Economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson PhD ’89 Share Nobel Prize in Economics

MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson PhD ’89, whose work has illuminated the relationship between political systems and economic growth, have been named winners of the 2024 …

Neuroscientist Turned Documentarian Makes Scientists into On-Screen Heroes

Alex Rivest PhD ’11 first met TV producer Danny O’Malley, a college friend of his wife, over dinner in Los Angeles. As everyone does when …

Gearhead Turns Passion for Old Cars into Automotive-History Career

David Lucsko PhD ’05 has been into cars for as long as he can remember, eating up TV shows with tricked-out rides such as the The Dukes …

Meet the President: R. Robert Wickham ’93, SM ’95

When members of the Class of ’23 flipped their brass rats at commencement, they officially joined a community of nearly 145,000 MIT alumni living around …

A Journey into Space Policy

In the days of the Apollo program, space policy wasn’t really about rockets, it was about international politics: beating the Soviets to the moon. But …