Issue: Summer 2010
COVER STORY: Water: An Urgent Challenge for the 21st Century
Water is one of the greatest global challenges of the 21st century, and now more than 50 faculty members from across the Institute are working to find new solutions to this growing crisis.
Campaign for Students Enters Final Year
Philanthropy enables MIT to remain a meritocracy, admitting students without regard to their family’s ability to pay.
Allies of Nature
Audrey Buyrn and Alan Phillips — backpackers who have cherished the Earth's beauty for 40 years — take the lead to preserve the Earth.
Family Tradition
Fort '85 and Beth Flowers support a graduate fellowship at MIT. Giving back, Fort says, "is a value that our extended family treasures."
Binding Cells
Prof. Richard Hynes, an MIT biologist, provides insight into how cancer spreads.
Collective Brainpower
Prof. Thomas Malone says that collective intelligence is the only hope we have to save the planet.
Celebrating Innovation
Grad student Erez Lieberman-Aiden invents a method that will help scientists better understand diseases like cancer.
Energy Club
"Interest level is at a fever pitch," says Forgan McIntosh of MIT's Energy Club, the fastest-growing extracurricular organization on campus.
Dr. David Fett and Randi Fett say they feel ‘an ethical obligation’ to give back
A biologically engineered drug once saved Randi Fett's life. Now, she and her husband, Dr. David Fett '77, feel an "ethical obligation" to give back.
