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• Categorized in MIT Alumni News: Cover

  A home for responsible optimists

  As the MIT Media Lab marks its first four decades, new leadership, adventurous research, and the most consequential ­technology in a generation are converging.
• Categorized in MIT Alumni News: Feature

  Zombies, xylophones, and 20 minutes to escape

  MIT’s annual student-built escape room is equal parts engineering challenge, horror narrative, and puzzle design.
• Categorized in MIT Alumni News: Feature

  Looking for life on Mars

  A half-century after the Viking landers touched down on the Red Planet, the debate over whether they found signs of life continues.
• Categorized in MIT Alumni News: Feature

  The Martian weatherman

  James Tillman ’58, SM ’61, began designing instruments to study Martian weather as an MIT student. When NASA decided to shut down the Viking mission after two years, he wouldn’t hear of it.
• Categorized in MIT Alumni News: President

  Curiosity is our intellectual rocket fuel

  In my charge to the Class of 2026, I asked graduates to help convey its importance to society as a whole.
• Categorized in MIT Alumni News: Seen

  Dr. Doggerson

  Vinny was along for the whole PhD ride. So of course, he deserved to dress the part at commencement.
• Categorized in MIT Alumni News

  Stand Up for Research, Innovation, and Education

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