Issue: Winter 2008
COVER STORY: Nurturing a Dream
A scholarship is the opportunity of a lifetime. It’s a chance to realize your dreams. MIT scholarship recipients tell what this gift means to them.
Voting Procedures
Prof. Ted Selker says we learned many lessons from the 2000 voting debacle, ones we’ll use as a guide in 2008.
Empathy for Others
Cancer survivor David Koch makes a $100 million gift to create an integrative cancer research center that he hopes will find the cure.
Power
Prof. Susan Silbey teaches an MIT course on power. What is it? Who has it? And how can you get it?
Educating Leaders
One of the best engineers in the country, Bernie Gordon gives MIT $20 million to prepare students for engineering leadership.
New Life
Asst. Prof. Kristala Prather is engineering bacteria and other living organisms to produce biofuels and other useful products.
Detecting Cancer
Prof. Angela Belcher is using nature’s designs to save lives.
Treating Blindness
Prof. Pawan Sinha is helping blind children in Indian villages to regain their sight.
Gift of a Scholarship
Siddharth Shriram of New Delhi, India, establishes a scholarship in honor of his late father.
