Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| 2024 | Baker House celebrates its 75th Anniversary with over 382 house alumni in attendance. |
| October 2024 | MIT hackers carved the words 'Free Gaza' into the grass turf in front of the Great Dome as part of 2024 pro-Palestine protests. |
| September 2024 | A protest banner reading 'Lockheed Martin Kills Kids in Gaza' was displayed above the MIT Career Fair, criticizing Lockheed Martin's weapon sales to Israel during the ongoing conflict in Gaza. |
| August 2024 | MIT reported decreased Black and Latino student enrollment to 5 and 11 percent respectively for the class of 2028, with Asian American enrollment increasing to 47 percent. |
| April 2024 | MIT students joined nationwide campus protests against the Gaza war, setting up encampments and calling for ending ties to the Israeli Ministry of Defense. |
| 2023 | U.S. Supreme Court overruled race-based affirmative action in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. |
| June 2023 | East Campus dormitory closes for a complete two-year gut renovation, with plans to add air conditioning, ADA accessibility, and new common area amenities. |
| April 16 2023 | The Stratton Student Center is completely closed for major renovations after a partial re-opening following the February pipe break. |
| February 2023 | A major pipe break causes extensive damage to the Stratton Student Center, leading to its evacuation and shutdown. |
| January 1 2023 | Sally Kornbluth is inaugurated as the nineteenth president of MIT, becoming the current president. |
| 2022 | The Eastgate (E55) concrete tower was completely disassembled and removed to prepare for the construction of 'Kendall Site 2', a mixed-use lab/office/retail building at 200 Main Street. |
| 2022 | Eastgate Apartments were demolished, marking the end of a long-standing housing facility at MIT. |
| 2022 | Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority chapter became dormant at MIT |
| 2022 | Open Philanthropy donated $13,277,348 to MIT to study potential risks from AI. |
| September 2022 | Burton-Conner House was re-opened during the wind-down of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid controversy over restrictions on traditional wall murals and the introduction of canvas panels as an alternative. |
| August 20 2022 | The Milk was declared missing, its whereabouts unknown since this date. |
| 2021 | New Vassar Street Residence Hall (W46) and Graduate Tower at Site 4 (E37) were constructed. |
| 2021 | First floor of Hayden Library is made 24-hour accessible to active MIT community members, and the previously underused courtyard is integrated into library functions. |
| 2021 | Phi Sigma Rho recognized as an active women's sorority chapter at MIT during this year. |
| January 2021 | New Vassar dormitory opened for students during the spring semester, expanding MIT's on-campus housing capacity. |
| 2020 | Hayden Library undergoes a major renovation, with the first two floors completely reorganized to add a cafe, meeting rooms, and collaborative workspaces. |
| 2020 | MIT plans to replace the existing turbine in the Central Utilities Plant with two new 22 megawatt units, upgrading the campus's energy infrastructure and improving its power generation capabilities. |
| 2020 | MIT Microphotonics Center and PhotonDelta published the first edition of the global Integrated Photonics Systems Roadmap – International (IPSR-I). |
| 2020 | SEAL Awards recognized senior climate and energy editor James Temple with an Environmental Journalism Award. |
| 2020 | MIT Technology Review Brasil (Brazilian version of the magazine) was launched. |
| September 2020 | Completion of New Vassar, a 450-bed undergraduate dormitory located at 189 Vassar Street (Building W46). |
| July 7 2020 | MIT announced seniors would be allowed to return to campus in September, with in-person classes beginning on September 7, and special housing considerations for other students. |
| March 10 2020 | MIT announced the move of all classes online and instructed students to vacate dormitories in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2019 | The North Court was renamed Hockfield Court in honor of Susan Hockfield, MIT's 16th President. |
| 2019 | Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity chapter becomes dormant at MIT. |
| 2019 | Clarivate Analytics named 54 MIT faculty members to its list of 'Highly Cited Researchers', ranking MIT eighth among world universities. |
| 2019 | Ranked #3 globally by SCImago Institutions Rankings. |
| 2019 | The Whitehead Institute reported an endowment of $527.9 million according to the NACUBO report. |
| April 2019 | MIT students decorated the Dome to look like Captain America's Shield, celebrating the release of Avengers: Endgame. The project involved dozens of people who planned and worked on it for months. |
| February 2019 | MIT administration announced the closure of Burton-Conner House for complete renovation, scheduled from June 2020 to August 2022, sparking concerns from dorm residents about interim housing and potential impacts on dorm culture. |
| February 28 2019 | A tragic construction site accident occurred at New Vassar, resulting in one worker's death and two others being injured due to a material collapse from an upper floor. |
| 2018 | The Lisa T Su Building (MIT.nano) was constructed, replacing the previous Building 12. It serves as a multi-disciplinary research node for nanoscience and nanotechnology, featuring undergraduate teaching labs and advanced chip fabrication facilities. |
| 2018 | One.MIT mosaic art installation was created, etching over 270,000 names of MIT-associated individuals from 1861 to 2018 onto a 6-inch silicon wafer, with an accompanying website to help locate individual names. |
| 2018 | Construction of MIT.nano building was completed, which severed the previous north-south passage connecting buildings 4, 12, 24, and 34. |
| December 2018 | Renovation of New House was completed, introducing new amenities including an arcade, improved first-floor lounge, and interconnected corridors on upper floors. During this process, historical student-painted murals were destroyed, significantly impacting the dormitory's existing community culture. |
| October 2018 | MIT announced the opening of the Schwarzman College of Computing, dedicated to AI research and interdisciplinary AI education, with an expected cost of $1 billion. |
| January 2018 | Construction of New Vassar began with the demolition of the West Garage parking facility. |
| 2017 | MIT's research expenditures totaled $952 million, with significant funding from various government departments. |
| 2017 | Times Higher Education World University Rankings rated MIT #2 for arts and humanities. |
| 2017 | MIT was ranked #6 in the Nature Index Annual Tables for contributions to leading scientific journals. |
| 2017 | MIT physicists Rainer Weiss, along with Caltech physicists Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to gravitational wave detection. |
| December 2017 | MIT approved the construction of New Vassar dormitory, which would be located at 189 Vassar Street on the site of the former West Garage parking facility. |
| November 2017 | Gideon Lichfield was named editor-in-chief. |
| September 2017 | MIT announced the creation of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, with IBM committing $240 million over a decade. |
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