Relive the 2024 MIT Alumni Leadership Conference
View photos from Leadership Awards Celebration and other weekend events, then watch the ALC keynotes and Institute and Alumni Association updates.
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Video Recordings
Featured Speakers
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Sally Kornbluth
MIT President
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Whitney T. Espich
Chief Executive Officer, MIT Alumni Association
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Natalie Lorenz Anderson ’84
President, MIT Alumni Association
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Lisa Barone
Associate Director, Action Learning Office
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Adam Berinsky
Mitsui Professor of Political Science, Director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab
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Emery N. Brown, MD, PhD
Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering; Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
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Greg Epstein
Author, "Tech Agnostic" and Humanist Chaplain, MIT and Harvard University
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Joe Higgins
Vice President for Campus Services and Stewardship
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Jason J. Jay PhD ’10
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management Director, Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan
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Chaiwoo Lee PhD ’14
Research Scientist, MIT AgeLab
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Gita Manaktala
Executive Editor at Large, MIT Press
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Deb Roy SM ’95, PhD ’99
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Director, MIT Center for Constructive Communication
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Karl W. Reid ’84, SM ’85
Vice President for Equity and Inclusion
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Stu Schmill ’86
Dean of Admissions and Student Financial Services
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Ian Waitz
Vice President for Research, Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Fan Wang
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research
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R. Robert Wickham ’93, SM ’95
Past President, MIT Alumni Association President
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Celebrate fellow volunteers: Recognize the efforts of a peer by nominating them for an Alumni Leadership Award
2024 MIT Alumni Leadership Award Recipients
Each year, the MIT Alumni Association presents volunteer leadership awards, which recognize, honor, and reward outstanding accomplishments and service to the Alumni Association and to MIT.
Learn more about this year’s honorees
Bronze Beaver Award
The Bronze Beaver Award is given in recognition of distinguished service to the Institute and/or its Association of Alumni and Alumnae by alumni who have been active in most or all phases of alumni activity and who have been outstanding in at least one phase. This award is the highest honor the Alumni Association can bestow upon any of its members.
- Lola Bryan ’91, SM ’92
- Marilyn Taggi Cisar ’76
- David Fung ’85
- Nelson P. D. Lin SM ’87, PhD ’91
- Richard Lufkin ’68
George B. Morgan ’20 Award
The George B. Morgan ’20 Award is given in recognition of sustained excellence in all aspects of Educational Council activity, including dedication to MIT, an abiding concern for and sensitivity to the interests of prospective students, and exceptional standards of achievement and professionalism in meeting council responsibilities.
- Susan Beiter ’92, SM ’93
- Jeffrey Folinus ’71, SM ’73
- Robert Heinze SM ’68
- John Morefield SM ’88
- Robert Schaffel ’71
- Juan Eduardo Torres ’82
- Joel Winett ’60, EE ’65
Harold E. Lobdell ’17 Distinguished Service Award
The Harold E. Lobdell ’17 Distinguished Service Award is given in recognition of alumni relations service to the Alumni Association and MIT that is of special depth over a sustained period.
- Anthony (Tony) Davis SM ’85
- Paul Green II ’73
- Elaine Harris ’78
- Lawrence Kelly Jr. ’70, SM ’72
- Samuel Nixon ’77
- Sawaka Romaine ’01
- Judy Stein ’78
- Stephanie Tan MBA ’98
- Raul Valdez ’94
Henry B. Kane ’24 Award
The Henry B. Kane ’24 Award is given in recognition of exceptional service and accomplishments in fundraising for the Alumni Association and MIT.
- Reginald Van Lee ’79, SM ’80
- Richard Blanchard ’68, SM ’70
- Michael Dornbrook ’75
- Barry Newman ’79
- Sally Yu ’00
Margaret L. A. MacVicar ’65, ScD ’67 Award
The Margaret L. A. MacVicar ’65, ScD ’67 Award is given in recognition of innovation, dedication, and meaningful impact for the Alumni Association or the Institute in any area of volunteer activity, showing strong potential for future volunteer leadership for the Alumni Association.
- Gayatri Aryan MBA ’18
- Mark Johnston ’84, SM ’93
- Cory D Kidd SM ’03, PhD ’08
- Forrest Liau ’06, PhD ’13
- Adedoyin Olateru-Olagbegi ’20
- Yinghua (Kelly) Shen ’17
- Henry Tan MBA ’04
- Wendi Zhang ’09
Honorary Membership
The constitution of the Alumni Association, adopted at its annual meeting held on December 30, 1897, provided that “anyone who has rendered outstanding service to the Association or the Institute” might be elected to Honorary Membership. This includes any present or former member of the Corporation, or any present or former officer of administration or instruction on the staff of the Institute, as well as their spouses.
- Whitney T. Espich
- Jerome Smith
Great Dome Award
The Great Dome Award is given in recognition of distinguished service to the Alumni Association and MIT by alumni organizations.
- MIT Alumni Gospel Choir Reunion
- MIT Class of 1967 Speaker Series
- MIT Class of 1978 Reunion Program and Gift Committees
- MIT Club of Washington, DC
- MIT Clubs of Beijing, Hong Kong, Japan, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand
- MIT Crew Alumni Association
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