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— MIT President Sally Kornbluth

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Sally Kornbluth is MIT's 18th president.

Since she joined MIT in January 2023, President Kornbluth has fostered bold thinking – from solutions to dramatically accelerate progress against climate change, to helping ensure the power of AI is harnessed for good, to exploring daring new links between engineering and life science.

MIT President Sally Kornbluth wears regalia and speaks to a new graduate holding a diploma.
MIT President Sally Kornbluth with a group of students in front of a tall pink structure that says Barbis.

MIT has a distinctive recipe for impact: this community’s signature ability to foster the very best in fundamental research and harness it to confront society’s hardest problems. As humanity struggles with so many interlocking global crises, it has never needed the people of MIT more than it does now.

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MIT President Sally Kornbluth wears regalia while standing behind a lectern with the MIT seal at Commencement.

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The Climate Project at MIT

In her inaugural address, President Sally Kornbluth called on the MIT community to mount a “bold, tenacious response” to the global threat posed by climate change. Drawing on the insights and perspectives of many at MIT and beyond, this new plan responds to President Kornbluth’s call.

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Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visits MIT

Panel discussions focused on innovation in many forms of energy, then a tour of campus featured student research.
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visited the MIT campus on Sept. 29. Wright earned a BS in mechanical engineering and spent two and a half years pursuing graduate studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science before leaving to become an entrepreneur in the energy industry.

What does the future hold for generative AI?

At the inaugural MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium Symposium, researchers and business leaders discussed potential advancements centered on this powerful technology.
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MIT President Sally Kornbluth said that the world is counting on faculty, researchers, and business leaders like those in MGAIC to tackle the technological and ethical challenges of generative AI as the technology advances.

Biogen groundbreaking stirs optimism in Kendall Square

The gathering of Biogen and MIT employees, business leaders, and public officials celebrated the first building to be constructed at Kendall Common.
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Pictured (left to right): Institute Professor and Biogen co-founder Phillip A. Sharp; Governor Maura Healey; MIT President Sally Kornbluth; and Biogen CEO Chris Viehbacher.

At convocation, President Kornbluth greets the Class of 2029

“We believe in all of you,” MIT’s president said at the welcoming ceremony for new undergraduates.
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At Convocation, President Sally Kornbluth greeted the Class of 2029 and underscored MIT’s confidence in its new students.

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