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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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Emma J. Teng is the T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations at MIT. She is the author of Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 (2004) and Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China and Hong Kong, 1842-1943 (2013). More at https://history.mit.edu/people/emma-teng/

Contact

hchen@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