Catherine “Kay” Stratton, wife of MIT’s 11th president, dies at 100
Catherine N. “Kay” Stratton — the wife of former MIT President Julius A. Stratton, and for decades a great friend of the arts at MIT — died Sept. 10 at her beloved farm in South Newfane, Vt. She was...
View ArticleAlumnus dies while attending campus leadership event
John Acevedo '67, a retired engineer with a long history of volunteering for the Institute, suffered a medical emergency during an Alumni Leadership Conference session on Sept. 20. Although MIT Police...
View ArticlePhoebe Wang’s family offers a remembrance
On Sept. 23, MIT President L. Rafael Reif notified the MIT community of the loss of sophomore Phoebe Wang. In that letter, Reif extended MIT’s deepest condolences to her family and friends. The...
View Article"Car Talk" host Tom Magliozzi ’58 left us laughing
In the MIT Online Alumni Directory, Tom Magliozzi ’58 listed his job title as "Big Kahuna at Dewey Cheetham & Howe," the fictional Harvard Square law firm that fronted his long-running radio show...
View ArticleDanielle Guichard-Ashbrook dies at 60
Danielle Guichard-Ashbrook, associate dean for international students and director of MIT’s International Students Office (ISO), passed away Wednesday at her home in Newton, Mass., surrounded by...
View ArticleHerman Eisen, professor emeritus of biology, dies at 96
Herman Eisen, a professor emeritus of biology and founding member of the MIT Center for Cancer Research, died Nov. 2 at age 96.Over a 70-year career, Eisen forged a path as a pioneering immunologist...
View ArticleShaoul Ezekiel, longtime AeroAstro and EECS professor, dies at 79
Professor Emeritus Shaoul “Ziggy” Ezekiel, an MIT alumnus who spent 46 years at the Institute as a professor in the departments of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro) and Electrical Engineering...
View ArticleProfessor emeritus Richard Schafer, former deputy head of mathematics at MIT,...
Richard D. Schafer, emeritus professor and former deputy head of the MIT Department of Mathematics, died on Dec. 28, 2014. He was 96.Schafer joined the MIT mathematics faculty in 1959 as deputy head...
View ArticleFormer AeroAstro head and Air Force chief scientist Eugene Covert dies at 88
Professor Emeritus Eugene Covert, a renowned aerodynamicist, aerospace engineer, and engineering educator, passed away Jan. 15 at age 88.Covert is credited with devising the world’s first practical...
View ArticleJames L. Kinsey, former chair of chemistry department, passes away at 80
James L. Kinsey, the former head of the Department of Chemistry at MIT and the D. R. Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Science Emeritus at Rice University, died unexpectedly on Dec. 20. He was...
View ArticleIrving Singer, professor emeritus of philosophy, dies at 89
Irving Singer, a professor emeritus of philosophy at MIT, died Feb. 1 at age 89. Singer was an eminent philosopher whose academic career spanned 65 years — with more than half a century as a professor...
View ArticleJack Ruina dies at 91
Jack Ruina, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1997 and emeritus thereafter, died on Feb. 4 at the age of 91.Emigrating...
View ArticleEllen Sico, longtime MIT Travel employee, dies at 61
Ellen Sico, a longtime employee of the MIT Travel department, died on Feb. 6 in Cambridge.Sico joined MIT in 1975 and served the community as a member of MIT Travel until 2012.She is survived by her...
View ArticlePhilanthropist Erna Viterbi dies at 81
Erna Viterbi, a warm and gracious philanthropist who with her husband, Qualcomm co-founder Andrew ’56, SM ’57, gave generously to MIT and a variety of other institutions, died Feb. 17 in San Diego.“In...
View ArticleBCS Professor Emeritus Stephan Chorover dies at 82
Professor Emeritus Stephan Chorover, a founding member of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, passed away on Friday, Feb. 20, at age 82. His more than 50 years at MIT were marked by a...
View ArticleAmar Bose ’51, SM ’52, ScD ’56, Bose Corporation’s founder, has died at 83
Amar Bose ’51, SM ’52, ScD ’56, a former member of the MIT faculty and the founder of Bose Corporation, has died. He was 83. Dr. Bose received his bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and doctorate from...
View ArticleClaude Brenner dies at 86
Claude Brenner, former MIT Corporation member, former president of the MIT Alumni Association, and longtime member of the MIT community, died on Saturday, March 7, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was...
View ArticleNorman B. Leventhal ’38, visionary developer and philanthropist, dies at 97
Norman B. Leventhal ’38 — a visionary developer and philanthropist at the center of Boston’s postwar revival, and a conscience of its civic life — died Sunday at age 97. Leventhal was a life member...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Benjamin Lax dies at 99
Professor Emeritus Benjamin Lax of the MIT Department of Physics passed away on April 21 at the age of 99.Born December 29, 1915, in Miskolc, Hungary, Lax came to New York City as a boy and received...
View ArticleAlexander Rich dies at 90
Alexander Rich, an MIT biophysicist best known for his work on the structural biology of RNA and DNA, died Monday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was 90.Rich, the William Thompson...
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