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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.

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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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At a spirited Commencement ceremony, the Class of 2026 is urged to “run toward the hardest problems”

Lisa Su ’90, SM ’91, PhD ’94, Advanced Micro Devices CEO, tells graduates to apply “purpose, judgment, and courage” in their lives.
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Graduates celebrated on Killian Court at the OneMIT Commencement ceremony Thursday.

Commencement address by Lisa Su ’90, SM ’91, PhD ’94

“Technology itself does not decide what the future looks like,” the chair and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices told the Class of 2026.
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At the OneMIT Commencement ceremony, Lisa Su urged MIT's Class of 2026 to be ambitious about the problems they choose to solve.

Sally Kornbluth’s charge to the Class of 2026

MIT’s president asked graduates help the world understand the importance of curiosity — “our intellectual rocket fuel” — to society as a whole.
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“I hope you will join in a great shared effort to sustain the work of scientific curiosity — on a mission to serve,” said President Sally Kornbluth.

New laboratory at MIT aims to advance quantum research for the nation

The Quantum Systems Laboratory will catalyze quantum innovation and be open to government, academic, and industry researchers.
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MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced plans for the new Quantum Systems Laboratory at MIT, which will accelerate the development of next-generation quantum technologies that will enable the commonwealth to remain a national hub for quantum innovation.

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