Jane Farver, former director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, dies
Jane Farver, a renowned art curator and administrator and the former director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, passed away suddenly on April 29. Farver was in Venice, Italy, acting as the editor for...
View ArticleJudith Layzer, expert on environmental politics, dies at 53
Judith Layzer, a professor at MIT and an accomplished scholar who produced influential work on environmental policy and politics, died Thursday after an extended illness. She was 53.Layzer had been on...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus James Fay dies at 91
James A. (Jay) Fay, a professor emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, past away on Tuesday, June 2, of complications from lymphoma. He was 91.The list of people who will miss him is...
View ArticleCharles Correa, influential architect and planner, dies at 84
Alumnus and former professor Charles Correa MArch ’55 — described as “India’s greatest architect” — passed away on Tuesday at age 84. A visionary architect and urban planner, Correa built a substantial...
View ArticleMujid Kazimi, leading educator and researcher in nuclear technology, dies at 67
Mujid S. Kazimi, the TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Engineering and one of the world’s foremost educators and researchers in nuclear technology, died suddenly on Wednesday in China.Kazimi, who was 67,...
View ArticleFrederic Morgenthaler, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and...
Frederic Richard “Rick” Morgenthaler ’55 (VI-A), SM ’56, PhD ’60, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, died on June 21 at the age of 82. Morgenthaler was an...
View ArticleLouis Howard, professor emeritus of mathematics, dies at 86
Louis Norberg Howard, emeritus professor of mathematics at MIT, and McKenzie emeritus professor at Florida State University, died on Sunday, June 28, at the age of 86.Howard joined the MIT mathematics...
View ArticleHamlin Jennings, Concrete Sustainability Hub principal investigator, dies at 68
Hamlin M. Jennings, adjunct professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and principal investigator in the Concrete Sustainability Hub, died on July 8 at his home in Cambridge,...
View ArticleEmeritus Professor Regis Pelloux, expert on fatigue and fracture of...
Régis M. N. Pelloux, professor emeritus of materials science and engineering, died July 10 after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. He was 83 years old. Pelloux was born in Passy, France, in the...
View ArticleHartley Rogers, Jr., professor emeritus of mathematics, dies at 89
Hartley Rogers, Jr., professor emeritus of mathematics at MIT, died at the Meadow Green Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Waltham, Massachusetts, on Friday, July 17. He was 89.Rogers joined the MIT...
View ArticleFrederic John Eppling, Laboratory for Nuclear Science physicist, dies at 95
Frederic John Eppling, a physicist at MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science, died on July 16 of congestive heart failure at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts. He was 95.Eppling was born in...
View ArticleFormer Magnet Lab researcher Neil Cuffin dies at 74
B. Neil Cuffin, an expert in biomagnetism — the process by which humans and other organisms produce magnetic fields — died July 21 in Florida after a struggle with cancer of the jaw and...
View ArticleGeorge Adelman, noted neuroscience editor, dies at 89
George Adelman, noted neuroscience editor, died June 26 due to complications of an injury after a fall. He was 89 years old.Adelman joined MIT in 1963 as the managing editor for the Neurosciences...
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...
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