Ten Years of Impact
MIT10 Alumni Shape the World
Learn about members of the MIT10 community making a difference in the world and see how MIT itself has evolved over the past 10 years.
2002 key event
Seven MIT women faculty are among the 60 top scientists cited in issues of Popular Science and Discover magazines.
Profiles
- Danah Boyd SM '02: Celebrity Academic Studies Teen Life Online
- Kaidra Mitchell MBA '02: Corporate Career Detours to Tajikistan
- Dr. Joseph Pompei PhD '02 & Francesco Pompei '70, SM '72: Father and Son Tackle Heat, Sound
2003 key event
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.
Profiles
- Jennifer Allora SM '03: Artist Explores the Political Power of Music
- Matt Mankins SM '03: Used Book Store Owner Looks to Revitalize Industry with Ingenuity, Code
- Mathias Craig SM '03: BlueEnergy Founder Named CNN Hero for Nicaraguan Project
2004 key event
Susan Hockfield is elected MIT's 16th president by the MIT Corporation.
Profiles
- Erika Ebbel '04: Miss Massachusetts Alumna Competes in the 2004 Miss America Pageant
- Jennifer Frazer SM '04: Science Writer Intrigued by "Weird, Cool Living Things"
- Rosa Obregon '04: Aerospace Technologist Named a Latina Woman of the Year
- Nicholas Powley '04: Inventor Hangs Out His Shingle
2005 key event
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=mc 2.
Profiles
- Joanna Lahey, PhD '05: Empirical Economist Documents Age Discrimination
- Gauri Nanda SM '05: Clocky's Inventor Builds a Business
2006 key event
NASA announces that astronaut Pamela Melroy SM '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.
Profiles
- Jacquelyn Martino PhD '06: Art + Computation = Experimental Technology
- Eric Mibuari '06: IT Analyst Founds Technology Center in Kenya
- Joseph Palaia, SM '06: Targeting the Commercial Potential of Mars
2007 key event
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.
Profile
- William Massaquoi SM '07: A Man Who Would Not Walk Away from Africa
2008 key event
MIT breaks ground for the new David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a state-of-the-art facility that promises to usher in the next generation in cancer research.
2009 key event
MIT faculty vote to make their scholarly articles available to the public with free and open access online, the first faculty-driven, university-wide initiative of its kind in the U.S.
2010 key event
In 11 years, MIT's Accelerating Information Technology Innovation (AITI) program has trained more than 1,500 budding entrepreneurs in seven countires.
PROFILE
- Ahsley Baker MBA '10: Alumna and students design succes in home-décor startup
2011 key event
MIT has received a $26.5 million gift from the Simons Foundation to catalyze autism research at MIT.
PROFILE
- Ani Vallabhaneni MBA '11: Alumni aim to improve Kenyan slum-dwellers’ access to basic sanitation — and generate renewable energy and jobs along the way.
