| Commencement 2025 | | | | | | Congratulations, MIT Class of 2025! At Thursday’s OneMIT Commencement ceremony, science communicator Hank Green urged graduates to work on “everyday solvable problems of normal people.” Yesterday, undergraduates received their diplomas in Killian Court, while graduate students who earned advanced degrees celebrated throughout the week with ceremonies around campus. Full story via MIT News → |
| Sally Kornbluth’s charge to the Class of 2025 MIT’s president urges graduates to become ambassadors for scientific thinking and discovery. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Commencement address by Hank Green “Do not forget how special and bizarre it is to get to live a human life,” the science communicator and video creator told the Class of 2025. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Mary Robinson urges MIT School of Architecture and Planning graduates to “find a way to lead” The former president of Ireland provides wit and wisdom to the graduating Class of 2025 and guests. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Photos: 2025 Engineering and Computing Advanced Degree Ceremony On May 28, graduates of master’s and doctoral programs in the MIT School of Engineering and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing were honored. Fariborz Maseeh ScD ’90 served as guest speaker. Full story via MIT School of Engineering→ | |
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| Photos: School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences 2025 Advanced Degree Ceremony Master’s and doctoral degrees were conferred during the May 29 ceremony. Sonia Maria Pavel PhD ’25 delivered the student address. Full story via MIT SHASS→ | |
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| MIT Corporation elects 10 term members, three life members The term members will serve between three and five years on MIT’s board of trustees. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT and Harvard Medical School announce a new research pathway to fight Alzheimer’s // The Boston Globe Researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have uncovered “new pathways, along with identifying genes, that may contribute to the development of a new class of drugs” to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Full story via The Boston Globe → |
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| MIT launches an institution-wide Initiative for New Manufacturing // Forbes MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM) is a new effort intended to “promote and advance the future of U.S. manufacturing.” Full story via Forbes→ |
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| Image reveals the most distant galaxy ever seen, from just 280 million years after the Big Bang // Gizmodo MIT astronomers uncovered the most distant galaxy ever detected, dubbed MoM-z14, using the James Webb Space Telescope. Full story via Gizmodo→ |
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| A search for new antibiotics in ancient DNA // The Wall Street Journal Professor James Collins discusses his lab’s work applying artificial intelligence technologies to find new antibiotic candidates. Full story via The Wall Street Journal→ |
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| | | With the MIT Commencement ceremonies of 2025 taking place this past week, we offer a look at the symbolism of the Institute’s regalia, mace, staff, seal, and more. Seen here, the design for the MIT doctoral degree robe was adopted in 1995 and modified in 2015. Learn more via Institute Events → |
| | | Thursday marked the last in a string of palindrome dates that began on May 20 (5-20-25). To mark the occasion, and in honor of Thursday’s OneMIT Commencement ceremony, the Institute’s own Barry Duncan, a renowned palindrome poet and bookseller at the MIT Press Bookstore, penned for our collective enjoyment this entirely reversible ode to the Class of 2025 and its Commencement speaker. |
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