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People Bengt Holmström, the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at MIT and faculty member in the MIT Sloan School of Management...
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People Edmund Bertschinger, head of the Department of Physics, was appointed MIT’s first Institute Community and Equity Officer...
People MIT held a memorial service to honor MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, who was killed in the line of duty on April 18, 2013...
People The Priscilla King Gray Award was established by the Undergraduate Association and the Public Service Center...
Ronald E. McNair PhD '76 becomes the first African American scientist-astronaut to go into space. McNair is killed in the 1986 Challenger disaster...
People Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provides a grant of $5,250,000 to launch MIT's School of Industrial Management. In 1964 the School is renamed...
Ellen Swallow Richards, having graduated in chemistry from Vassar College, is admitted as a special student in chemistry at MIT...
People At the first annual meeting of the Government of the Institute, William Barton Rogers is elected president...
