Vanu Bose, software pioneer and MIT Corporation member, dies at 52
Vanu Bose ’87, SM ’94, PhD ’99, a leading software executive and a member of the MIT Corporation with deep ties to the Institute, died on Saturday at age 52. The cause of his death was a sudden...
View ArticleRemembering Christine Moulen, library systems manager at the MIT Libraries
Christine Moulen ’94, library systems manager at the MIT Libraries, passed away on Saturday after a battle with cancer. She was 44.A libraries employee for more than 20 years, Moulen was a three-time...
View ArticleMartin Rein, former professor of urban studies and planning, dies at 89
Martin Rein, professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning from 1970 until his retirement in 2011, died on Oct. 15 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 89.Rein was born in...
View ArticleRemembering Raymond F. Baddour, professor emeritus of chemical engineering
Raymond F. Baddour, the Lammot du Pont Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at MIT, died peacefully at his home Dec. 15, 2017, surrounded by his family.Baddour received a BS in chemical...
View ArticleDonald Rosenfield, a longtime leader of MIT Leaders for Global Operations,...
Donald Rosenfield, the longtime director of MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations program and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, died Jan. 14 following an accident. He was 70.A 1971...
View ArticleAnthony French, professor emeritus of physics, dies at 96
Anthony “Tony” Philip French, MIT professor emeritus in physics and a notable leader in physics education, died on Feb. 3. He was 96 years old.French was born and educated in Great Britain. After...
View ArticleInstitute Professor Emeritus Morris Halle, innovative and influential...
Institute Professor Emeritus Morris Halle, one of the most accomplished and influential scholars in the field of linguistics, died of natural causes on Monday at age 94.Halle was an expert in...
View ArticleProfessor Joseph Sussman, expert in complex engineering systems and revered...
Retired MIT Professor Joseph Sussman passed away on Tuesday, March 20, at the age of 79 following a long illness. An MIT alumnus and professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering...
View ArticleP.L. Thibaut Brian, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, dies at 87
Pierre Leonc Thibaut Brian, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemical Engineering, died on April 2 at age 87.Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on July 8, 1930, Brian received a BS in chemical...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Leon Trilling dies at 93
Leon Trilling, a professor emeritus in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and co-founder of the Massachusetts Department of...
View ArticleIrving London, founding director of Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences...
Irving M. London, founding director of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and an expert in the molecular regulation of hemoglobin synthesis, died on May 23 at age 99. The...
View ArticleFor Kofi Annan, shared prosperity meant shared responsibility
As technology, trade, and globalization tie the world’s cultures and communities ever closer together, the responsibility of each to guarantee and protect the well-being of the others grows in step —...
View ArticleAlan Hanson, who led the International Nuclear Leadership Education Program,...
Alan S. Hanson PhD '77, who served as executive director of International Nuclear Leadership Education Program within the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) until June 2015, died...
View ArticleShih-Ying Lee, longtime mechanical engineering professor, inventor, and...
Shih-Ying Lee, a longtime MIT mechanical engineering professor and expert in process control, measurement, and instrumentation, passed away peacefully on July 2 in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Lee '43, SCD...
View ArticleJohn de Monchaux, former dean of the School of Architecture and Planning,...
Jean Pierre de Monchaux, an idealistic and optimistic planner and architect who served as dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning from 1981 to 1992, passed away on April 30, after living...
View ArticleSamuel Bodman, MIT Corporation member and former U.S. Secretary of Energy,...
Samuel W. Bodman III ScD ’65, a former MIT associate professor and life member emeritus of the MIT Corporation, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Energy and in other cabinet posts, died on Sept. 7 in...
View ArticleGeorge Hatsopoulos, senior lecturer emeritus and MIT Corporation life member...
George Nicholas Hatsopoulos, an MIT mechanical engineering senior lecturer emeritus who founded the Thermo Electron Corporation has passed away at the age of 91. Hatsopoulos '49, SM '50, ME '54, SCD...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Bernard Burke, astrophysics pioneer, dies at 90
Bernard F. “Bernie” Burke’50, PhD ’53, the William A.M. Burden Professor of Astrophysics Emeritus and a principal investigator at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, was an...
View ArticleCelebrating the life of Colt Richter ’16
“Flying with Colt above glaciers and between mountain peaks, I understood how he fell in love with flying, and why he was so excited to share that with others.”Sam Parker ’15 wrote that about his late...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Sylvain Bromberger, philosopher of language and science,...
Professor Emeritus Sylvain Bromberger, a philosopher of language and of science who played a pivotal role in establishing MIT’s Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, died on Sept. 16 in Cambridge,...
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