Issue: Fall 2005
COVER STORY: Graduate Fellowships
Graduate fellowships are key to drawing the world’s best students.
Creating Opportunity
Ted ‘55 and Mary Papastavros of Weston, Ma., endow a scholarship for first-generation college students.
Gift of Gratitude
Clay Struve of Chicago, who loved living in his fraternity, gives MIT $99,000 to help others build bonds.
Imagining a New Jerusalem
Prof. Diane Davis is director of Jerusalem 2050, a project that brings together the world’s leading experts to create a dream of peace in the year 2050.
Building on Nature
Assoc. Prof. Angela Belcher draws on nature to create valuable materials and devices.
Sounds of Success
Prof. Evan Ziporyn –– a composer and clarinetist who founded MIT’s Gamelan Galak Tika, an orchestra of Balinese instruments –– recently performed at Carnegie Hall.
Illuminating the Mind
John Gabrieli, professor of brain and cognitive sciences, says research shows that the “wisdom of age” is real.
Better Fuel Cells
Asst. Prof. Yang Shao-Horn, a member of the MIT Energy Research Council, says fuel cells have real promise for use in cars and trucks.
Research Briefs
Clues to cancer, cheaper cell phone calls, and more.
MIT and Cambridge
Tim Heidel, a student in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange program, was so inspired by the international experience that he organized a group to identify engineering problems in Ghana.
Thinking Big
MIT junior Joshua Maciejewski launched a company when he was 13.
Protecting the Earth
Larry Linden, who gave MIT $1 million, says graduate students can help to sustain the life of the earth.
