Writing & Speeches

Thank you, Keeril – and good afternoon, everybody! I’m thrilled that so many of you were able to join us!

I want to start by quickly thanking everyone who is part of this afternoon’s program – from our exceptional faculty speakers to our student performers to…

Dear MIT graduates and friends,

This week, when Professors Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson PhD ’89 received the 2024 Economics Nobel, institutional pride and respect for their scholarship radiated from everybody you spoke to here – a shared sense of how…

Thank you, Kimberly. Good morning, everybody! 

I’m delighted to say out loud what you already know: This morning, the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, and…

Good morning, MIT!

I’m delighted to let you know that Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, and Simon Johnson, the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, have been awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in…

Dear members of the MIT community,

I’m excited to invite you to the official launch of the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) – a new initiative designed to make it easier for faculty from across MIT’s human-centered disciplines to “go big” –…

To the members of the MIT community,

I write to you now, as we do every fall, to encourage you to vote this year on Election Day, Tuesday, November 5.

Thanks to the efforts of many in our community, student voter turnout has been rising at MIT, and…