Reasserting U.S. leadership in semiconductor innovation and manufacturing has become a national priority. In a new report, MIT researchers outline a vision for how universities can best contribute toward this national goal.
MIT Provost Martin Schmidt has been named as the 19th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Schmidt, who earned his BS in electrical engineering at RPI in 1981, has spent more than 40 years at MIT as a student, faculty member, and administrative leader.
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“We’re in an emergency, and we need a coordinated effort with all hands and all minds on deck trying to solve this problem.” The urgency in that call to confront climate change, issued by MIT faculty member Asegun Henry SM ’06, PhD ’09, reverberated throughout MIT Better World (Sustainability), a recent virtual gathering of the global MIT community.
More than 830 attendees from 57 countries logged on to learn about climate change solutions in development at MIT and to consider how, in the words of Provost Martin A. Schmidt SM ’83, PhD ’88, “Every academic discipline in every corner of our community can contribute to solving this global challenge.” Schmidt, who is the Ray and Maria Stata Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, moderated the main session of the program, which also featured Vice President for Research Maria Zuber and linguistics graduate student Annauk Denise Olin.