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@MIT_alumni
MIT Alumni
6 years
If you are associated with @MIT from 1861-2018, your name is one of 270,000 etched in nanoscale on a six-inch wafer at the MIT.nano building. Find your name on this new website:
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@MIT_alumni
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QS ranks @MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2022-23
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What's cool about science? Just ask @thephysicsgirl ! Dianna Cowern ’11 has made a career out of her curiosity and love of physics on her @YouTube channel. See how she ignites the minds of millions @MIT_Physics
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Looks like spring has finally arrived @MIT ! #aroundMIT
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As the 50th Anniversary of the #Apollo11 moon landing approaches, we learn more about @NASA figures like @MIT 's Margaret Hamilton, who helped save the day when systems overloaded right before touchdown
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@MIT_alumni
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What's cool about science? Just ask @thephysicsgirl ! Dianna Cowern ’11 has made a career out of her curiosity and love of physics on her @YouTube channel. See how she ignites the minds of millions
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@MIT_alumni
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It's been 40 years since the Blizzard of '78 dumped 27 inches of snow on Cambridge. Naturally, @MITstudents made the best of it with some #StarWars inspired snow creations 📸 Caroline Gee PhD '81 ❄️
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Katie Bouman SM '13, PhD '17, on the team behind the algorithms that helped capture the first direct photo of a black hole, following in the footsteps of great female @MIT scientists throughout history! #EHTBlackHole 🔭
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. @Forbes 30 under 30 honoree Dianna Cowern ’11 ( @thephysicsgirl ) inspires kids—especially girls—to pursue an interest in #STEM fields through award-winning videos →
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@MIT_alumni
MIT Alumni
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You may be working from home, but you can still enjoy some views of @MIT with these @zoom_us backgrounds. #OneMIT
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Puerto Rico has a brand new governor and you might recognize him--it's @MIT alumnus Ricky Rosselló '01
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@MIT_alumni
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The trees outside of McCormick Hall are exquisite right now! 🌸🌸🌸 Photos taken 4.24.19 #AroundMIT
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In honor of #InternationalWomensDay , check out the many MIT alumnae who have flown to space!
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NASA
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To date, 65 women have flown in space, and many of them have advanced @ISS_Research aboard the @Space_Station since 2001. This #WomensHistoryMonth , learn about notable women who contribute to science that benefits humanity on Earth – and beyond:
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. @MITChemE alumnus Ricardo “Ricky” Rosselló ’01 is Puerto Rico's new governor #brassrat
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Happy #PiDay ! Starting now until 11:59 PM ET tonight, join the @MIT community during the #MIT24 -Hour Challenge to fuel the future at the Institute and around the world:
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MIT Alumni
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For #InternetDay , learn about how @MIT alumna Radia Perlman—"the mother of the Internet”—made sizable contributions to the World Wide Web at MIT in the 70's
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Congratulations #MIT2019 ! Welcome to the Alumni Association!
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ICYMI: @MITarchitecture alum Alexis Sablone MArch ’16 ranked #4 at the #TokyoOlympics Women's Street Final as part of first-ever US skateboarding team. 🛹
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On this day two years ago, @LIGO first detected #GravitationalWaves
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“If it’s not against the laws of physics, it’s possible.” ~Sampriti Bhattacharyya PhD ’17, cofounder of @NavierBoat , which is marketing “the boat of the future” that’s 10 times more efficient than a traditional gasoline-fueled boat.
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MIT Alumni
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. @mitpress and @medialab team up for new Journal of #Design and Science
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LISTEN: Andrew Rader PhD ’09 ( @marsrader ) discusses how technical advancement results from a desire to explore.
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Top 2019 story: The phrase "better late than never" takes on important meaning for Ron Searls '70 who graduated this year with a double major after dropping out 40 years earlier.
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#tbt @MIT 's first alumna, Ellen Swallow Richards, and women students in 1888. #womenshistorymonth 📷 @MITMuseum
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"I still have a hard time believing that this is real and not data from one of the simulations that we ran" — @MIT alum Julie Wertz Chen (far left), project V & V lead of @NASAInSight 's #MarsLanding
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MIT Alumni
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Can robots experience emotions? Ask an engineer from @MITEngineering
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Dr. Rebecca Ann Masterson '97, SM '99, PhD '05 named first female Principal Research Scientist @MITAeroAstro
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MIT Alumni
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"I have a deep desire to understand what it means to be human – the meaning of our thoughts and feelings,” says @MIT Neurology Professor, Ed Boyden. Learn how this @mcgovernmit researcher is decoding the brain via @newscientist
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MIT Alumni
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Post-it notes of support greet @MITstudents as they head off to exams #aroundMIT
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MIT Alumni
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Look familiar? @MIT ’s Killian Court gets @TheSimpsons treatment
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#StarWars characters are loose @MIT ! Look for photos & share your own as we count down to #theforceawakens .
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"You know you went to MIT if...you went chairing in the tunnels," ~Michael Ortega ’13. #thisisMIT #aroundMIT
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MIT Alumni
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Spotted on the walls of a Bldg 12 @ChemistryMIT lab. What sandwich are you?
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MIT Alumni
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It's that time of year again! This Sunday, #MIT2023 will jump into the Zesiger Pool for the 100-yard swim test. Learn why this 80 year @MIT tradition is still a graduation requirement
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MIT Alumni
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Researchers @MIT have developed an implantable device that could help insulin-producing cells live longer after transplant and improve treatment of type 1 diabetes
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MIT Alumni
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We're past our pi-themed half-way point! Over 3,141 have given to MIT today in honor of the 24-Hour Challenge! Spread the word and help us reach our ultimate goal of 6,283 donors! #MIT24 #piday
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Happy #NationalSpaghettiDay ! Ever wonder why it’s so difficult to break a piece of spaghetti into just two pieces? @MIT researchers explain
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MIT Alumni
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Welcome to campus, MIT families! 📷: MIT cheerleaders with Tim the Beaver during MIT Family Weekend 2018
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“To be head engineer on a bridge of that size and complexity is…the culmination of my block-playing career as a four-year-old.” ~Alum Brian Brenner of his work on the Kenneth F. Burns Memorial Bridge in Worcester
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Astronaut Nick Hague SM '00 ( @AstroHague ) heads to the #ISS on Pi Day, 3.14.19. He's part of an impressive cohort of @MIT alumni astronauts:
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MIT Alumni
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Happy #PiDay ! Enjoy all the pi 26-100 can fit
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MIT Alumni
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How do you make MRIs cheaper? Take the "I" out of it! PhD student @lina_colucci works on a non-invasive MR sensor
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MIT Alumni
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Lots of rain means lots of green @MIT #aroundMIT 🌧️🌳
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Research at @MIT with the Passamaquoddy Tribal Government in Maine led this alum to a career in the collaborative management & caretaking of natural resources @MITEngineering 🏞️
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MIT Alumni
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For the first time in @MIT history, 2 @MITengineers were selected in the 2017 @MLB draft. Here's how it happened:
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@MIT_alumni
MIT Alumni
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How Project Athena in the 70's transformed @MIT into "one of the most computer-rich institutions in the country"
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@MIT_alumni
MIT Alumni
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Learn why Kenji López-Alt ’02 ( @TheFoodLab ) swore off labs and how forged his own way in the kitchen
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MIT Alumni
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#MattDamon & @MIT President Reif encourage students to solve the unsolvable @mitcommencement #MITBetterWorld
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“More people die from dirty water than from all forms of violence” ~ @MITSloanAlumni Vick Liu ’20, who recently created a short film on building fresh water wells in a rural Africa
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MIT Alumni
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Henry Moore's Three-Piece Reclining Figure, Draped in the heart of yesterday's storm. 📷: Tom Garvey '82
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@MIT_alumni
MIT Alumni
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ICYMI: Five @MITstudents worked on creating the ambulance of the future...all while living in a 270-square-foot glass cube for 4 days straight. #thisismit #incube2018 @MIT
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MIT Alumni
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“I want to make sure that students are armed with the right skills to not just invent great products & technologies, but to do it in a way that doesn’t cause environmental damage” ~ @MIT_CEE ’s Desirée Plata PhD ’09
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MIT Alumni
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Wishing you a very MIT #Halloween !
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@MIT_alumni
MIT Alumni
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Happy #SuperPiDay Eve! See how you can celebrate the big day around @MIT http://t.co/2lTGMBTKMW http://t.co/JQ2LJGulM2
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MIT Alumni
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Julia Rue '18 is a winner of the 2018 Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Award and the lead behind the art underneath @MIT . Get to know her and the Borderline Mural
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What if everyone had a chance to explore Machu Picchu? A team from @MIT is working to create a 3-D site map using virtual reality and augmented reality
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One of just 19 women in her graduating class, Martha Goodway '57 would become the first full time metallurgist in a U.S. museum--working with artifacts from first flight to fine art #WomensHistoryMonth
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. @MIT named the #1 university in the world for the fifth consecutive year by @QS_pressoffice
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Good luck to @MITFootball as they compete against @HopkinsFootball tomorrow in the first game of the @NCAADIII football playoffs! Here's a look back at @MITengineers at practice Ryan Kelly ’18, Matt Lindsay ’17, Mike DeLaus ’18, Jack Dulsky ’19 & Travis Herbanek ’17
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Meet the women shaping science and engineering in Saudi Arabia, current and former @IBKFellows @MIT
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MIT Alumni
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Researchers @MIT including alum @eboyden3 saw such improved results from their non-invasive #Alzheimers treatment model that they didn't believe them at first #MITBetterWorld @MIT_Spectrum
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MIT Alumni
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Alumni and students gather together to say it's okay to ask for help @MIT
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If you see Ayo ‘18 say hi 👋! She’s sharing the #MIT2018 experience on our @Snapchat
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In a recent email to the @MIT community, President Reif shared this message.
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For Ron Searls '70, the phrase "better late than never" takes on important meaning. Just short of graduating, Searls left @MIT for a job in computer programming. 40 years later, he is proud to go from "dropout to double major" @MITEECS
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100 years of Walker Memorial! @MIT 's first student center is still central to the @MIT community
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Is it possible to suck existing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere? Learn about this and other #GeoEngineering techniques with @jpasztor ’78, SM ’79 in an @MIT podcast: #TILClimate
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. @MIT named #1 for ungraduated engineering and computer science programs @MITEngineering @MITCSAIL 🎉🎈
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MIT Alumni
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This year @mitpress celebrates 60 years! Director Amy Brand PhD ’89 shares the Press' future plans to push the boundaries of publishing for public good
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Age-sensitive design in hospitals, low-vision museum signage, and housing for wounded soldiers—all projects this alum’s firm is creating to make spaces accessible to all
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#tbt @mitcommencement 1982. The @MIT community celebrates #MIT2018 tomorrow. Watch live: 📷: @MITMuseum
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Looking for a quirkier, fun kid's present? Take a trip to Mars with @marsrader PhD '09 & his book, Mars Rover Rescue
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How a group of @MIT alumni in the 80's inspired a generation of designers to explore the intersection of design and technology. With @REAS @strausfeld @johnmaeda @ben_fry @golan , @zachlieberman , and more
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📷: Wearable Computing Project members with Steve Mann PhD ’97 (far left) in a mid-90s selfie. @MediaLab
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MIT Alumni
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What are two surefire ways to develop good ideas? This MIT grad student has the answer:
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MIT Alumni
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Last night, @TheRealChrissyH MBA '16 made it to the @survivorcbs finale. Find out more about one of @JeffProbst 's "all-time favorite people"
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MIT Alumni
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A brief history of the @MIT #BrassRat : #MIT2020
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MIT Alumni
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Let's start at the very beginning... because this video of @MIT alum and Prof David Wallace singing "Do Re Mi" with students dressed as hazard symbols is everything #OnlyatMIT 📷: @009minions
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MIT alumni topped this year’s 100 Most Influential People in Boston list gathered by @BostonMagazine , including the #1 spot @Linda_Pizzuti SM ’05
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When @Boeing 's Starliner spacecraft launches its first test mission later this year, Kavya Manyapu SM ‘10 and Celena Dopart SM ’14 will have had their hands all over it. Discover the role each played in the spacecraft's development @MITAeroAstro
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Welcomed by @BlackAlumsofMIT , 82 @MIT undergrads and grad students receive their kente stoles to wear at #MIT2019 Commencement.
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MIT Alumni
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What's your favorite view of the 'Tute? We share our most -liked photos from #aroundMIT
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Venice is facing rising sea level challenges. @MIT students & faculty were there to help
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“They looked like little brown suitcases, & we carried them around campus with typical @MIT nerd pride.” ~ Susan Beiter ’92, MS ’93 describing a “nerd kit” used to design “breadboard” circuits
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Dina Katabi SM ’99, PhD ’03 and her team develop touchless sensors to monitor health vitals at home @MIT_Spectrum
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Over 800 alumni and friends celebrated @MIT 's mission to make a better world in San Francisco #MITBetterWorld
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In alum @marsrader 's newest book, astronaut animals work together to save a #Mars rover
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Discovering the fascinating history of African American physicians through letters, resumes, and artifacts #BHM
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How have the challenges women face in their careers changed or stayed the same since the early days @MIT ? Share what you think and submit a panel idea for the MIT Women's unConference
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What will living on Mars be like for future astronauts? One alum has a good idea after spending one year in a simulated Mars habitat
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"I almost didn’t apply to MIT because I thought it was a waste of <application> money." ~ @MITdeptofBE grad student Shelby Doyle on why she's grateful she applied to MIT #gradstudentappreciationweek
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Get to know the "experimentation arm" of the @MITMuseum
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Work by Laura Hallock '15 with OrigaMIT. Each unit in this design is known as a PHiZZ unit.
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How a single unsolicited email last year from this @MITEngineering alum to Greece's prime minister set off a chain of events that led to the country more safely reopening its borders.
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