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

 

  • Sally Kornbluth

    Sally Kornbluth

    MIT President

  • Whitney T. Espich

    Whitney T. Espich

    Chief Executive Officer, MIT Alumni Association

  • Natalie Lorenz Anderson ’84

    Natalie Lorenz Anderson ’84

    President, MIT Alumni Association

  • Lisa Barone

    Lisa Barone

    Associate Director, Action Learning Office

  • Adam Berinsky

    Adam Berinsky

    Mitsui Professor of Political Science, Director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab

  • Emery N. Brown, MD

    Emery N. Brown, MD, PhD

    Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering; Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

  • Greg Epstein

    Greg Epstein

    Author, "Tech Agnostic" and Humanist Chaplain, MIT and Harvard University

  • Joe Higgins

    Joe Higgins

    Vice President for Campus Services and Stewardship

  • Jason J. Jay PhD ’10

    Jason J. Jay PhD ’10

    Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management Director, Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan

  • Chaiwoo Lee PhD ’14

    Chaiwoo Lee PhD ’14

    Research Scientist, MIT AgeLab

  • Gita Manaktala

    Gita Manaktala

    Executive Editor at Large, MIT Press

  • Deb Roy SM ’95, PhD ’99

    Deb Roy SM ’95, PhD ’99

    Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Director, MIT Center for Constructive Communication

  • Karl W. Reid ’84, SM ’85

    Karl W. Reid ’84, SM ’85

    Vice President for Equity and Inclusion

  • Stu Schmill ’86

    Stu Schmill ’86

    Dean of Admissions and Student Financial Services

  • Ian Waitz

    Ian Waitz

    Vice President for Research, Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

  • Fan Wang

    Fan Wang

    Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research

  • R. Robert Wickham ’93, SM ’95

    R. Robert Wickham ’93, SM ’95

    Past President, MIT Alumni Association President

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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

 

 

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 

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 

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 

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 
     

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

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 

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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