Writing & Speeches

Thank you, Kimberly. Good morning, everybody! 

I’m delighted to say out loud what you already know: This morning, the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, and…

Good morning, MIT!

I’m delighted to let you know that Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, and Simon Johnson, the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, have been awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in…

Dear members of the MIT community,

I’m excited to invite you to the official launch of the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) – a new initiative designed to make it easier for faculty from across MIT’s human-centered disciplines to “go big” –…

To the members of the MIT community,

I write to you now, as we do every fall, to encourage you to vote this year on Election Day, Tuesday, November 5.

Thanks to the efforts of many in our community, student voter turnout has been rising at MIT, and…

Dear members of the MIT community,

This past year, an important responsibility for me and many leaders at MIT has been addressing the impact on our campus community of the conflict, violence and humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. While we continue that…

Dear members of the MIT community,

I hadn’t intended to start the year with a message like this, but on Monday, an incident occurred that I found troubling. I cannot be the arbiter of every disagreement about speech at MIT, and I do not expect to write often…