MIT Tech Connection

MIT Alumni Association President R. Erich Caulfield SM ’01, PhD ’06 writes to the alumni/ae community regarding MIT and Jeffrey Epstein. Read more.

Rather than implanting plastic, metal, ceramic, or even donor bone for replacement surgeries, Nina Tandon SM ’06 is developing the technology to grow living, anatomically correct bones from a patient’s own stem cells. Watch the video.

An immunologist and experienced educator who immigrated to the US from Haiti in the 1960s, Reynold Verret PhD ’82, president of Xavier University of Louisiana, says that “service is the only meaning.” Read more.

After building more than 100 custom homes through their company Turkel Design, Meelena Turkel MArch ’08 and Joel Turkel MArch ’99 used their own home as a living lab—creating the prefabricated, net-zero dwelling of their dreams. Watch the video.

Ingredion’s recently retired CEO, Ilene Gordon ’75, SM ’76, speaks about the importance of having a plan B (and C) and what she wishes more mentees would ask her. Listen to the podcast.

Three alums found a way to use a deep-learning algorithm to improve TSA screening by training the technology to recognize dangerous objects. Read more.

Set out on a modern-day caravan over the old Silk Road, tracing the path that linked Europe and China and opened Central Asia to exotic cultures, customs, and religions, April 27–May 14, 2020. 

In honor of the 120th-anniversary celebration of women at MIT, the Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA) released an interactive timeline—starting with the 1870 admission of Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards. Explore the timeline and tell AMITA what you would like to see included.

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