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“Technology and the Dream: Reflections on the Black Experience at MIT 1941-1999,” by Clarence Williams, adjunct professor of urban studies and planning, published with MIT Press Asteroid is named after “Doc” Anne Spirn, professor of landscape architecture and planning, awarded International Cosmos Prize for research contributing to ‘harmonious co-existence of nature and mankind ’
| Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan ’72 Sloan Fellow Susan Murcott ’90, lecturer in civil and environmental engineering, and student team bring clean water project to Nepal |
Wolfgang Ketterle, professor of physics, shares Nobel Prize in physics with Eric Cornell ’90 and Carl Wieman ’73 for discovery of Bose-Einstein condensate Terrorist attacks on New York City, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania Institute-wide community meetings on Killian Court, memorials to victims
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