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10 in 10 Years

1998 - President Bill Clinton addresses graduates at commencement on June 5. He is the first sitting president to do so.

1999 - MIT launches an ambitious $1.5 billion capital campaign. The theme of the campaign is "Calculated Risks. Creative Revolutions."

2000 - Richard P. Simmons '53 wields a plasma arc cutter at a stainless-steel ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating Simmons Hall, the $40 million undergraduate residence on Vassar Street.

2001 - In solidarity with students across the country, MIT students rally for a peaceful resolution to the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001.

2002 - Seven MIT women faculty are among the 60 top scientists cited in the November issues of Popular Science and Discover magazines.

2003 - Students top MIT's great dome with a replica of the Wright brothers' biplane Flyer to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the invention of the airplane.

2004 - Susan Hockfield is elected MIT's 16th president by the MIT Corporation.

2005 - In a fitting cap to the World Year of Physics 2005, MIT physicists and colleagues from the National Institute for Standards and Technology report the most precise direct test yet of Einstein's most famous equation E=mc².

2006 - NASA announces that astronaut Pamela Melroy GY '84 will command the STS-120 space shuttle mission currently planned for August 2007, making her the second woman to command a U.S. space mission.

2007 - The MIT Energy Initiative launches a new Web site that will allow anyone to learn about the full range of MIT's energy research, education, and campus activities.