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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 25th. 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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Please join the MIT Club of Puget Sound and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society for a fascinating look into the impacts of climate change on mountain peak elevations and the challenges associated with measuring their elevations.

When: May 7, 2025 from 6pm – 8pm, talk begins at 6:30pm (pizza and drinks available at 6pm)

Where: Sinegal 200 - Oberto Commons (2nd floor): Sinegal Center for Science and Innovation, Seattle University, 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Our speaker is Dr. Gilbertson ( MIT SB '08, SM '10, PhD '14) an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Seattle University, where he teaches statics and dynamics courses, and an advanced controls class involving robotics.  Dr. Gilbertson will be discussing his efforts to survey the current elevations of the five last remaining “icecap” peaks of the lower 48 states, which are all in WA (Rainier, Liberty Cap, Eldorado, Colfax, East Fury). These peaks are melting lower, and so now only two remain as icecap peaks. This ongoing lowering of these peak elevations has gone unnoticed since no one had been measuring these changes. His findings on the lowering of Mt Rainier  (https://www.countryhighpoints.com/mt-rainier-elevation-survey/ ) were covered in a variety of media outlets in October 2024 (https://www.countryhighpoints.com/media-coverage/)

Dr. Gilbertson received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. His masters research focused on developing a safety valve for offshore oil wells in collaboration with Chevron. His doctoral dissertation focused on controlling underwater robots in difficult acoustic communication environments, in collaboration with the Office of Naval Research. Before joining SU Dr. Gilbertson taught at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow, Russia, and at the Seattle Colleges.

Pizza and a variety of drinks will be available. Please RSVP by April 30, so we can buy the right amount of food. 

If you are an MIT alumnus, or otherwise have an account in this system, please be sure to log in before registering since this will connect your registration to your account.

Current Members of the MIT Club of Puget Sound & their guests: [Explore yearly Club membership options here] Cost is $10 per person to help offset the cost of this event.

Other Alumni +& their guests (registration opens March 22):  Cost is $20 per person to help offset the cost of this event.

For more information, please see the following:

https://www.countryhighpoints.com/

https://www.seattleu.edu/directory/profiles/eric-gilbertson-phd.php

Google Maps location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/mhJ6wrfwzQ2KbuAo8 

Driving Directions: https://www.seattleu.edu/life-at-seattle-u/our-campus/getting-to-seattle-university/

Parking: Main Visitor lot entrance on Marion across street from Sinegal Center) https://www.seattleu.edu/transportation-and-parking-services/visitor-parking/

There is often parking along 12^th Ave. 

Contact

mbernard@alum.mit.edu

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 Botanical Garden Tour

Led by Deborah Jeanne Hirsch, Van Vleck House and Garden Management Committee Member

$20 Members. $25 non-members and guests.  Children to 16 free.

Adult capacity: 30 persons. 

Contact

lposter@catalyx.com

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MIT Club of Northern NJ

Annual Dinner

One randomly chosen NNJ MIT Club member at the meeting will receive a $100 cash prize. If you are not yet a club member and are coming to the meeting, you should join the Club here before May 15!

Schedule:

6:00pm  Cocktail Reception (cash bar)
7:00pm  Three course dinner 
8:15pm  Dr. Emily Carter's presentation followed by questions from attendees

Location:  Newark Marriott hotel at the Newark Liberty Airport

Price:

$70 - MIT Club members and their guests
$85 - All others

Free Hotel Parking included! (Parking ticket handed out during the meeting)

*I acknowledge and understand that: (i) I am not required to participate in this event; (ii) my participation is voluntary and at my sole risk; and (iii) I am responsible for my own protection against Covid-19, including, without limitation, following all health and safety protocols communicated to me or posted at the event venue.

Contact

robin.brystra@gmail.com

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Book Club:  The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science      

by Kate Zernike  

A New York Times Notable Book

“Gripping…one puts down the book inspired by the women’s grit, tenacity, and brilliance.” —Science
“Riveting.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene

In 1963, a female student was attending a lecture given by Nobel Prize winner James Watson, then tenured at Harvard. At nineteen, she was struggling to define her future. She had given herself just ten years to fulfill her professional ambitions before starting the family she was expected to have. For women at that time, a future on the usual path of academic science was unimaginable—but during that lecture, young Nancy Hopkins fell in love with the promise of genetics. Confidently believing science to be a pure meritocracy, she embarked on a career.

In 1999, Hopkins, now a noted molecular geneticist and cancer researcher at MIT, divorced and childless, found herself underpaid and denied the credit and resources given to men of lesser rank. Galvanized by the flagrant favoritism, Hopkins led a group of sixteen women on the faculty in a campaign that prompted MIT to make the historic admission that it had long discriminated against its female scientists. The sixteen women were a formidable group: their work has advanced our understanding of everything from cancer to geology, from fossil fuels to the inner workings of the human brain. And their work to highlight what they called “21st-century discrimination”—a subtle, stubborn, often unconscious bias—set off a national reckoning with the pervasive sexism in science.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who broke the story, The Exceptions chronicles groundbreaking science and a history-making fight for equal opportunity. It is the “excellent and infuriating” (The New York Times) story of how this group of determined, brilliant women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. And it offers an intimate look at the passion that drives discovery, and a rare glimpse into the competitive, hierarchical world of elite science—and the women who dared to challenge it. 

No Fee:  just let us know you are coming

This book is available on Amazon: The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

• ISBN-10    1982131837

Contact

malthiblues@yahoo.com

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Amazon In-Person Edison Fulfillment Center Tour 

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, 5/27, 12:00 - 1:30pm  

Know before you Go

	Tour Duration Each tour is approximately 60-90 minutes long. On the tour you may walk up and down at least one flight of stairs and walk approximately 1 mile.
	Arrive Early Early arrival is strongly recommended. Plan to arrive 15 minutes prior to your tour. If guests do not arrive on time, the tour will start without you. Once the tour has begun, guests will not be able to join the tour.
	Attire All guests must wear flat, closed-toed, and closed-heeled shoes (no sandals, clogs or high heels). We recommend wearing comfortable shoes or sneakers. Additionally, long hair must be pulled at or above shoulder length. Loose fitting clothing (long-hanging jewelry, scarves, or ties) are not permitted. Headscarves worn for religious reasons are permitted but must be tucked in securely.
	Identification Upon your arrival, your tour leader will ask for a government issued photo ID. Please ensure that guest information submitted during sign-up matches the guest ID.
	Children Children must be six years of age or older to attend the tour. Visitors may not carry young children on the tour. Guests under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
	Accessibility Amazon Fulfillment Centers are accessible facilities. To request a specific accommodation for a tour, please submit a request via the Amazon Tours Help Center ahead of registration to confirm we can support.
	Service Animals Pets are not authorized on the tour. Service animals are permitted in all public areas and on the tour. Service animals are dogs that have been individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability and does not include emotional support, comfort, or companionship animals.
	Photography While cell phones are allowed on the tour, still photography is only permitted in designated photo spots along the tour.
	Items Allowed on Tour You may bring your wallet, keys, cell phone, and transparent water bottle on the tour. We ask that you keep all bags and backpacks at home or in a vehicle, unless medically necessary. Outside food and drink will not be permitted.

No Fee:  just let us know you are coming

Contact

afadeev@alum.mit.edu

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Come join us one and all for our annual MIT Club picnic and Summer Sendoff event -- and we are back again this year at Lower Woodland Park, Shelter #3! The picnic is potluck format. We provide the basics--hamburgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs, turkey dogs, buns, condiments, plates, utensils, grills and coals, etc. You bring something to share, such as drinks, a side dish, salad, chips, dessert, etc. (No alcoholic beverages are allowed in the park.) 

We will continue our tradition of hosting a Mini-Tech Challenge Games -- and we are looking forward to help from both old and new cvolunteers!  Please contact Lola at lola@alum.mit.edu if you'd like to help out and not already involved in planning!

Cost = Free; please bring something to share with others

Contact

lola@alum.mit.edu