​​The NAE has awarded President Rafael Reif its Simon Ramo Founders Award “for pioneering leadership to reimagine and advance higher education, university-based entrepreneurship, the future of computing, the future of work, sustainability and semiconductor technology.”

“MIT attracts people who want to invent things and push boundaries, and Bose attracts that kind of person as well,” says Bose CEO Lila Snyder SM ’96, PhD ’98. She is the first person from outside Bose and the first woman to serve as CEO of the company.

More than 70 students, faculty, staff, and alumni gathered in Killian Court to “Stand Up and Be Counted (for Women’s Health),” with a strong representation of individuals concerned about gynecology disorders such as endometriosis and adenomyosis.

Math PhD student Juncal Arbelaiz Mugica finds inspiration in the biological intelligence of invertebrates such as octopuses and jellyfish. Her ultimate goal is to design control strategies for soft robots that could maneuver through tight or delicate surroundings.

The new MIT Museum is opening its doors in the heart of Cambridge’s Kendall Square. “We’re taking MIT’s great mission and making it more accessible to the wider community,” says John Durant. “The museum is all about turning MIT inside out.”

In a new book, Kieran Setiya “aims to show how living well and hardship can go together.” The Economist notes: “Attentive readers of this humane, intelligent book will come away with a firmer grasp and better descriptions of whatever it is that ails them.”