Kisah Sukses

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 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Political scientist James Robinson of the University of Chicago, with whom they have worked closely, also shares the award. “Societies … Read more

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 they show up in LA, Rivest says, he pitched O’Malley an idea.  “I said, ‘I’m a scientist, and I don’t really like science programming. It always feels a little bit … Read more

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 of Hazzard and Magnum, P.I. in the 1980s. From his childhood window in Pittsburgh, he would watch the far-off crane of a salvage yard. At age five, his family moved to Georgia, and … Read more

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 the globe. R. Robert Wickham ’93, SM ’95—who happens to live nearly halfway around the world, or 10,512 miles from Killian Court—begins his one-year term as MIT Alumni Association president … Read more

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 in the 21st century, with space now populated by thousands of satellites, telescopes, and other technologies, space policy has become far more complex. So after earning her degree in aerospace … Read more