Memorial service for Audrey Dobek-Bell to be held Jan. 16
A celebration of the life of Audrey Dobek-Bell will be held on Thursday, Jan. 16, at 3 p.m. at the MIT Chapel. All are invited to join Dobek-Bell’s family and MIT friends for the service and the...
View ArticleJames K. Roberge, professor of electrical engineering, dies at 75
James K. Roberge, a professor of electrical engineering and a member of the MIT faculty since 1967, died Friday, Jan. 10, at age 75. Roberge continued teaching in the Department of Electrical...
View ArticleRobert Alberty, professor emeritus of chemistry and former dean of science,...
Robert A. Alberty, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and former dean of MIT’s School of Science — whose seminal contributions to the thermodynamics and kinetics of biochemical reactions...
View ArticleWayne Andersen, pioneer in visual arts at MIT, dies at 85
Wayne Vesti Andersen, a professor emeritus of history, theory and criticism of art and architecture at MIT, died Jan. 6 at Massachusetts General Hospital at age 85. Andersen was a scholar, author,...
View ArticleHoward Brenner, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, passes away at 84
Howard Brenner, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, died on Feb. 17. He was 84. Brenner’s extraordinary and accomplished academic career spanned more than 60 years. Considered one of the...
View ArticleBruce Graber, Alumni Association IT expert, dies at 51
Bruce E. Graber II of Cambridge, a senior project manager at the MIT Alumni Association, died of complications from cancer on Feb. 22 at the age of 51. Graber, who grew up in Maine, is survived by his...
View ArticleMIT community mourns the loss of graduate student Hadi Kasab
Hadi Kasab, 23, a second-year graduate student in MIT’s program in Computation for Design and Optimization, was found deceased last evening in his room in Sidney Pacific. Kasab was a native of Saida,...
View ArticleLetter to MIT community regarding death of graduate student Hadi Kasab
The following email was sent this afternoon to the MIT community by President L. Rafael Reif.To the members of the MIT community: I share the sad news that a member of our community, Hadi Kasab, a...
View ArticlePatrick McGovern, founder of McGovern Institute for Brain Research, dies at 76
Patrick J. McGovern ’59, a longstanding MIT supporter who made the gift that launched MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, died March 19 at the age of 76. As an MIT undergraduate, McGovern...
View ArticleFamily and friends recall graduate student Hadi Kasab
When Hadi Kasab was a boy in Lebanon, he went through a phase of carrying a small briefcase to school.“He already knew that he wanted to be an engineer,” Kasab’s younger sister, Jana, recalls — and the...
View ArticleSenior research scientist emeritus Alan Lazarus dies at 82
Alan Jay Lazarus, senior research scientist emeritus at MIT, a gentle man, respectful of all and respected by all who knew him, died peacefully in his home in Lexington, Mass., on March 13 of...
View ArticleMorris Adelman, MIT economics faculty member for more than six decades, dies...
Morris Adelman, an MIT economics faculty member for more than six decades, passed away on May 8 at the age of 96. Adelman made important contributions in both industrial organization and energy...
View ArticleTom Hughes: Remembering a non-lifer
Thomas Hughes, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at MIT and Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, passed away Feb. 3, 2014 at age 89. Hughes, who...
View ArticleIrwin Oppenheim, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 84
MIT professor emeritus of chemistry Irwin Oppenheim, 84, of Cambridge, passed away on June 3 from complications following cardiac surgery.Oppenheim carried out his undergraduate studies in chemistry...
View ArticleAfter a determined fight with leukemia, Paul Uche ’13 dies at 23
Paul U. “Looch” Uche ’13 died on June 19 in Toronto from causes related to leukemia. He was 23.Uche, who received his SB in chemical engineering from MIT last June, was an active member of the MIT...
View ArticleProfessor Seth Teller dies at age 50
Seth Teller, a professor of computer science and engineering at MIT who was well known for his efforts to advance human-robot interactions, died yesterday. He was 50, and he had been a member of the...
View ArticleJohn King, professor emeritus of physics, dies at 88
Professor emeritus John G. King ’50, PhD ‘53, an experimental physicist, transformative physics educator, and leader of the MIT Molecular Beams Laboratory in the Research Laboratory for Electronics for...
View ArticleJoAnn Carmin, expert on cities and climate change, dies at age 56
JoAnn Carmin, an associate professor of environmental policy and planning at MIT, died on Tuesday after an extended illness. She was 56 years old.Carmin had been on the faculty of MIT’s Department of...
View ArticleOtto Piene, leading figure in kinetic and technology-based art, dies at 86
Otto Piene, a professor emeritus of visual design who was the first fellow of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) and its director from 1974 to 1994, died on Thursday in Berlin. He was...
View ArticleJohn Waugh, Institute Professor emeritus, dies at 85
John S. Waugh, an MIT Institute Professor emeritus and professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry, died Friday, Aug. 22, at the age of 85. Waugh was an authority in chemical physics, known...
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