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 Cambridge, MA
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Joined February 2009
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Time for laughs, MIT community! SHASS and the de Florez Fund for Humor present Stand Up Comedy Live! with comedian @AtsukoComedy Saturday 10/4 at 7pm in Kresge Auditorium! Get your FREE tickets at shass.mit.edu/standup. @MITstudents @MIT_alumni
Promotional image for a stand-up comedy live event featuring comedian Atsuko Okatsuka. Text on a red background reads "Stand-up comedy live! Featuring comedian Atsuko Okatsuka" from 7-9 PM, Krege Auditorium. Includes MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences logo, a QR code, and the website link shass.mit.edu/standup. The background features a large portrait of Atsuko Okatsuka wearing a voluminous black wig and a stylish outfit.

ALT Promotional image for a stand-up comedy live event featuring comedian Atsuko Okatsuka. Text on a red background reads "Stand-up comedy live! Featuring comedian Atsuko Okatsuka" from 7-9 PM, Krege Auditorium. Includes MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences logo, a QR code, and the website link shass.mit.edu/standup. The background features a large portrait of Atsuko Okatsuka wearing a voluminous black wig and a stylish outfit.

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Today's featured university icon is the Maclaurin Building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. university-icons.pixels.com/… @MIT @MIT_alumni #MIT #MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology
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Asha Aravindakshan@DCasha
9 Sep 2025
#JLF Where the World Was Built featuring @arunNYC moderating @MIT Professors, hosted at @AsiaSociety @AsiaSocietyNY CC @MIT_alumni @MITSloanAlumni
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Time for laughs, MIT community! SHASS and the de Florez Fund for Humor present Stand Up Comedy Live! with comedian @AtsukoComedy Saturday 10/4 at 7pm in Kresge Auditorium! Get your FREE tickets at shass.mit.edu/standup. @MITstudents @MIT_alumni
Promotional image for a stand-up comedy live event featuring comedian Atsuko Okatsuka. Text on a red background reads "Stand-up comedy live! Featuring comedian Atsuko Okatsuka" from 7-9 PM, Krege Auditorium. Includes MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences logo, a QR code, and the website link shass.mit.edu/standup. The background features a large portrait of Atsuko Okatsuka wearing a voluminous black wig and a stylish outfit.

ALT Promotional image for a stand-up comedy live event featuring comedian Atsuko Okatsuka. Text on a red background reads "Stand-up comedy live! Featuring comedian Atsuko Okatsuka" from 7-9 PM, Krege Auditorium. Includes MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences logo, a QR code, and the website link shass.mit.edu/standup. The background features a large portrait of Atsuko Okatsuka wearing a voluminous black wig and a stylish outfit.

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“AI is a powerful tool that has left underserved communities without representation, and I want to change this,” MIT alumna Faith Baca says. betterworld.mit.edu/spectrum… @MITMath @MITEECS @MIT_alumni @MIT_Spectrum
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Cady Coleman@Astro_Cady
28 Jun 2025
#SharingSpace is featured in @MIT_alumni Magazine! I’m so proud! I hope my stories about mission success- & failure- will catalyze conversations & connections across our community needed for solving today’s challenges technologyreview.com/2025/06… @MIT @techreview @Penguinrandom
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“I’m interested to provide students with the opportunity to earn a living wage in Hawai’i while staying true to traditional Hawaiian values.” ~Aja Grande PhD ’24 bit.ly/3G4ZmiI
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This MIT spinout maps the body’s metabolites to uncover the hidden drivers of disease. bit.ly/4n4f5PH
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MIT alumna Netia McCray's nonprofit, @mbadika, focuses on ideas. She credits family and MIT for her success. "MIT produces thinkers and doers of impossible things," she says. alum.mit.edu/slice/cultivati… @MIT_alumni @MITPoliSci @MISTIatMIT @MITESatMIT

Cultivating Thinkers and Doers of Impossible Things

Netia McCray ’12 supports underresourced kids through her Boston-based nonprofit, Mbadika, Read more.

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Quick clip from my last engagement! Thanks @MIT_alumni #techreunion for having me! #music #independentartist #originalmusic
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Imagine a world without @MIT! I am a proud alumnus of this great institution, whose mission is to tackle the most pressing problems facing the world today. @MIT_alumni @MITSloanAlumni @MITEngineering @MITSloan piped.video/watch?v=04JCB9GT…
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This year the MIT Alumni Association (MITAA) marks 150 years of working to “further the well-being of the Institute and its graduates by increasing the interest of members in the school and in each other.” @MIT_alumni @MIT alum.mit.edu/slice/mit-alumn…

The MIT Alumni Association at 150

The MIT Alumni Association celebrates 150 years of bringing alumni together.Read more.

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Eggs are less likely to crack when dropped on their side, according to @MIT researchers bit.ly/43uuDEI
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Emeritus Professor David Vogan PhD '75 has rung the Old South Church bell, when the first-place Boston Marathon competitors cross the finish line, for 30 years. @ScienceMIT @MIT_alumni wgbh.org/news/local/2025-04-…

The Old South Church bell tolls for marathon winners. He gets to ring it.

David Vogan has been ringing the bell to mark the marathon’s victors since the ’90s.

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MIT Mathematics@MITMath
11 Apr 2025
Congrats to MIT Math alum Rupert Li '24 and three others from MIT who were awarded the 2025 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships. @ScienceMIT @MIT_alumni news.mit.edu/2025/paul-daisy…

Four from MIT awarded 2025 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

MIT affiliates Rupert Li, Sreekar Mantena, Arjun Ramani, and Jupneet Singh have been named among 30 new Paul and Daisy Soros Fellows for New Americans. In addition, Soros Fellow Andre Ye will begin a...

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What happens when pianists play? Research underway by Mi-Eun Kim and Praneeth Namburi seeks to reduce playing-related injuries and improve pedagogy. news.mit.edu/2025/human-body… @MIT_alumni @MIT_IMES @MIT_MTA @mit_nano

The human body, its movement, and music

The MIT research project "The Biomechanics of Assimilating a New Piano Skill" aims to develop mechanistic insights that could transform how we understand and teach piano technique, reduce performan...

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The MIT Club gave out six awards at the recent Houston Science Engineering Fair on February 15. Our local MIT alumni @MIT_alumni who did the judging were (from left to right in the photo): Arno Bommer Emily Le Saab Liz Jensen Mike Bissell This year’s winners and their winning projects were: Cayson Wang of AST: Academy of Science and Technology - SmartPanel: An ML-Assisted Active Control System for Reducing Solar Array Vibrations of Satellites Ashton Creasey of McCullough Junior High - Magnetohydrodynamic Thrusters Carter Boland of Clear Creek High School - Tool-Changer For Robotic Arm Chenhao Wang of The Village School - Plantar flexion torque assisted barefoot exoskeleton Emily Alexander of York Junior High - Most Efficient Hydrualic Fluid Alivia Hus of McCullough Junior High - The Capturing of Energy From Physical Movements
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From @Globe_Tara: Aaron Leanhardt, the MIT-educated physicist turned baseball coach whose redesigned ‘torpedo bat’ is the talk of the game trib.al/k64TpGV

‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ This MIT-educated physicist turned baseball coach may be changing MLB...

The result, which looks something like a bowling pin, is a simple yet remarkable feat of engineering invented by Aaron Leandhardt.

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"There is a solution to every problem, we just have to think of it," says MIT alum and Robert Muh Alumni Award winner Ray Kurzweil. shass.mit.edu/ray-kurzweil-r… @MIT_alumni

Ray Kurzweil ’70 receives the 2025 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award - MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and...

MIT alum Ray Kurzweil received the 2025 Robert A. Muh alumni award for his work in literature, music, and technology.

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Fernando Goldsztein MBA ’03 launched a nonprofit to cure pediatric brain tumors. He’s now hoping to provide a playbook for fighting rare childhood diseases. bit.ly/3FuXn6E
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