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This event is to celebrate the achievements of our graduates and honor the sacrifices their families made to make attending MIT a possibility. The entire MIT community (students, alumni, staff, faculty, family, friends) is invited to enjoy and be with us on this date to recognize our grads. In addition to celebrating in person, we are planning to live stream this program for our alumni, families and friends.

Register to attend the event in person or virtually by selecting the appropriate option provided in the drop down menu. All in-person tickets include refreshments at the event. If you registered as a virtual attendee, you will receive the livestream link before May 5th. Please note, we are charging a nominal fee to help offset the cost of the celebration. 

For 2025 Graduates: The registration deadline to be included in the program is April 30th. Late additions may be allowed on a case-by-case basis

After you register, you will need to email a professional headshot to mitsaaagrad@mit.edu  for the slideshow during the celebration. Please make the subject line your first and last name.

Contact

mbentin@mit.edu

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In this presentation, the 2024 Economics Nobel Prize Winner and MIT Distinguished Professor Simon Johnson will discuss how technology has been the mover of progress and prosperity for the last 1000 years.  And how we must manage, navigate and share technology for mass productivity and prosperity.  Professor Johnson has very interesting insights into the various rules/governance and their impact on the prosperity of the societies. For instance, how the British rule has adversely impacted the prosperity of South Asia.

Contact

kalyan@alum.mit.edu

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Save the date for an engaging discussion, a chance to expand your network, and enjoy the great MITAS startup energy. Event details to come. RSVPs required. 

About the hosts

MIT Alumni Startup Network (MITAS) is a global community for MIT Alumni Founders looking to scale themselves as they scale their teams. 🔥 🚀 🦄 Founded on the belief that entrepreneurship doesn't have to be a lonely journey, MITAS brings together the founders, innovators, and disruptors who have helped establish MIT as a powerhouse of innovation. Join today. 

M13 is an early stage venture fund, investing in infrastructure technology—such as AI and web3—that powers the future of work, health, commerce, and money.

MIT AI Conference is taking place on October 18 in Mountain View. Registration opens in June. 

Contact

laura@mitas.org

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Prescription For Bankruptcy:
America's Failing Health Care "non-system"

Why do Americans pay more than citizens of any other country for health care and yet have, at best, mediocre health outcomes? Dr. Edward Hoffer will discuss this topic, and suggest both global solutions and practical things you can do to pay less and get better care.

Our speaker, Edward Hoffer MD

Edward Hoffer MD is a graduate of MIT and Harvard Medical School and did his residency and fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Hoffer has held faculty academic appointments at Harvard, the University of Massachusetts, and Boston University. He has also held appointments at several Boston hospitals (Peter Bent Brigham, Beth Israel, Boston Hospital for Women), at many Boston metro-west hospitals (in Worcestor, Natick, and Framingham), and at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington. He has either authored or co-authored over 80 publications, including 8 books and dozens of refereed journal articles, many of which deal with the application of computers to various aspects of medicine and with issues within the American healthcare system (insurance, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, etc.).

For 45 years he combined clinical practice of Internal Medicine and Cardiology with research on the applications of computers and AI to medical care, and continues to work half-time at the MGH Lab of Computer Science.

He has written and lectured extensively on the problems of the American healthcare "non-system."

Lunch at Alberto's Ristorante

We will be returning to Alberto's Ristorante in Hyannis because of the many rave reviews we received for the food and service in the past.

There will be a cash bar and we will be offering the same entrees as before (gluten-free is available upon request). All meals include a house salad and Tartuffo dessert.

• Chicken Parmagian - Breaded chicken cutlet topped with tomato sauce and melted cheese. Served with penne pasta.
  
  
• Pork Osso Bucco - Pork shank cooked with celery, carrots, and onions in a Barolo wine sauce. Served with mashed potatoes broccoli.
  
  
• Baked Scrod - Fresh baked scrod with seasoned breadcrumbs, white wine, and lemon touch of butter. Served with pasta and vegetables.
  
  
• Farcite Napoletana (vegetarian) - Eggplant rolled & stuffed with ricotta cheese, baked with San Marzano plum tomato sauce & three cheeses. Served with penne pasta.

Contact

capecodEvents@alum.mit.edu

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Join us for a bold night where creativity meets code and visionary women take the mic. Hosted by MIT Alumni Startups (MITAS) and Women Who AI, this event brings the firepower of MIT and the soul of NYC’s startup scene under one Tribeca roof.

We’ll kick off with opening remarks and then leave the stage to 4 powerhouse women founders who will share what they’re building in short, engaging demos.

They might be looking for funding, a co-founder, design partners, or simply a community that gets it, so come out and support them!

We’ll close out the night with networking, delicious apps, drinks, and conversations that matter.

✨ What to expect:
🔹 Real talk on building with AI
🔹 Inspiring demos from AI women founders
🔹 MIT energy, downtown NYC vibes
🔹 Seriously good food + smart convos

Come for the insights. Stay for the energy.
Space is limited – RSVP now.

More about MITAS: MITAS (MIT Alumni Startup Network) is a global community launched by MIT founders for MIT founders who are striving to scale themselves as they scale their ventures. Founded on the belief that entrepreneurship doesn't have to be a lonely journey, MITAS brings together the founders, innovators and disruptors who have helped establish MIT as a powerhouse of innovation. MITAS's flagship event, the MIT AI Conference, will take place in Mountain View, CA on 10/18/2025: https://www.mitaiconference.org/

More about Women Who AI: Women Who AI is a global community dedicated to supporting and empowering female founders in the artificial intelligence (AI) space. Originating from the entrepreneurial ecosystem at MIT, the organization recognizes the urgent need for focused support for women leading AI ventures. https://womenwho.ai/

This event is a part of #NYTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.

Contact

laura@mitas.org

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The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project

Wôpanâak was the language spoken by the indiginous people living in this region when the Pilgrims arrived in 1620.

After a couple hundred years of colonial laws, wars, and diseases, hundreds of Wôpanâak tribes were reduced to four small fragmented communities, and the last people for whom Wôpanâak was their first language passed away in the mid 1850's. It took only a few more generations for all traces of spoken Wôpanâak to completely fade away, with the decendants speaking only English after that.

OUR SPEAKERS:

Jessie (Little Doe) Baird

Jessie (Little Doe) Baird is the Director of Linguistics, Lead Linguist, and a co-founder of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project.

In the early 1990's she had dreams in which people were speaking in an unfamiliar language, and soon after that she thought that the language might be Wôpanâak, the language spoken by her ancestors.

This inspired her to start researching everything she could find out about the original Wôpanâak language, and in 1993 she co-founded the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project with the long-term goal of revitalizing the language, which had not be spoken for seven generations, for the people now living within the remaining anoag tribes.

Because something like that had never been done before, there were many who thought that it was not even possible. But Jessie was undeterred. In her quest, she gained admission to MIT where she learned how to apply modern linguistic techniques coupled with historical records in order to understand original Wôpanâak grammar and to create a dictionary of 10,000 Wôpanâak words. (And she did all this while commuting between her home on Cape Cod and Cambridge while also raising four children).

For this seminal work, Jessie was granted a Masters in Linguistic Science from MIT in 2000.

In recognition of this and other brilliant achievements ...

• In 2010, Jessie was honored with a MacArthur Fellowship (a.k.a MacArthur Genius Award).
• In 2017, Jessie received and Honorary Doctorate in Social Sciences from Yale University.
• In 2020, Jessie was named one of USA Today's "Woman of the Century."
• Jessie and her work on Wôpanâak language reconstruction are the subject of a PBS documentary: We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân, directed by Anne Makepeace.

Jessie also serves as the vice-chairwoman of the Mashpee Wôpanâak Indian Tribal Council. 

Tracy Kelley

Tracy Kelly is the Director of Programming for the  Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project. She was granted a Master in LInguistic Science from MIT in 2020.

Our Annual Education Event

Prior to our presentation, Carol Bogin, our club's VP for Education Programs, will briefly report about all the education activities and awards for this year, highlighting the many ways we support the MIT Club of Cape Cod's primary missions to promote STEM education on the Cape and the Islands, including:

• The Lynn Bruneau Scholarship, which is awarded to all Cape Cod high school seniors matriculating into MIT.
   
• $600 mini grants, primarily awarded to Cape Cod secondary schools, for STEM-related projects.
   
• STEM Book Awards for the top STEM juniors at 17 Cape Cod schools, consisting of a commendation letter, a certificate suitable for framing, the book "Nightwork" (an illustrated collection of memorable MIT Hacks) and a $100 Amazon gift card with which the awardee can use to purchase a number of STEM-related books from Amazon.
   
• Full sponsorship for all Cape Cod teacher accepted into MIT's SEPT (Science and Engineering Program for Teachers) summer program.

Lunch at Alberto's Ristorante

We will be returning to Alberto's Ristorante in Hyannis because of the many rave reviews we received for the food and service in the past.

There will be a cash bar and we will be offering the same entrees as before (gluten-free is available upon request). All meals include a house salad and Tartuffo dessert.

• Chicken Parmagian - Breaded chicken cutlet topped with tomato sauce and melted cheese. Served with penne pasta.
  
  
• Pork Osso Bucco - Pork shank cooked with celery, carrots, and onions in a Barolo wine sauce. Served with mashed potatoes broccoli.
  
  
• Baked Scrod - Fresh baked scrod with seasoned breadcrumbs, white wine, and lemon touch of butter. Served with pasta and vegetables.
  
  
• Farcite Napoletana (vegetarian) - Eggplant rolled & stuffed with ricotta cheese, baked with San Marzano plum tomato sauce & three cheeses. Served with penne pasta.

Contact

capecodEvents@alum.mit.edu