51 Facts About MIT Corporation

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The institute has a strong entrepreneurial culture and MIT Corporation alumni have founded or co-founded many notable companies.

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MIT Corporation is a member of the Association of American Universities and has received more Sloan Research Fellowships than any other university in North America.

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MIT Corporation did not wish to found a professional school, but a combination with elements of both professional and liberal education, proposing that:.

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Two days after MIT Corporation was chartered, the first battle of the Civil War broke out.

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Unlike Ivy League schools, MIT Corporation catered more to middle-class families, and depended more on tuition than on endowments or grants for its funding.

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Post-war government-sponsored research at MIT Corporation included SAGE and guidance systems for ballistic missiles and Project Apollo.

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MIT Corporation ultimately divested itself from the Instrumentation Laboratory and moved all classified research off-campus to the MIT Corporation Lincoln Laboratory facility in 1973 in response to the protests.

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However six MIT Corporation students were sentenced to prison terms at this time and some former student leaders, such as Michael Albert and George Katsiaficas, are still indignant about MIT Corporation's role in military research and its suppression of these protests.

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MIT Corporation has kept pace with and helped to advance the digital age.

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MIT Corporation was named a sea-grant college in 1976 to support its programs in oceanography and marine sciences and was named a space-grant college in 1989 to support its aeronautics and astronautics programs.

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In 2001, inspired by the open source and open access movements, MIT Corporation launched OpenCourseWare to make the lecture notes, problem sets, syllabi, exams, and lectures from the great majority of its courses available online for no charge, though without any formal accreditation for coursework completed.

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In March 2009 the MIT Corporation faculty adopted an open-access policy to make its scholarship publicly accessible online.

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In October 2018 MIT Corporation announced that it would open a new Schwarzman College of Computing dedicated to the study of artificial intelligence, named after lead donor and The Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman.

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14.

Weiss, who is an MIT Corporation graduate, designed the laser interferometric technique, which served as the essential blueprint for the LIGO.

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15.

The bridge closest to MIT Corporation is the Harvard Bridge, which is known for being marked off in a non-standard unit of length – the smoot.

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The Cambridge neighborhoods surrounding MIT Corporation are a mixture of high tech companies occupying both modern office and rehabilitated industrial buildings, as well as socio-economically diverse residential neighborhoods.

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In early 2016, MIT Corporation presented its updated Kendall Square Initiative to the City of Cambridge, with plans for mixed-use educational, retail, residential, startup incubator, and office space in a dense high-rise transit-oriented development plan.

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18.

Each building at MIT Corporation has a number designation, and most have a name as well.

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19.

MIT Corporation Nano, known as Building 12, is an interdisciplinary facility for nanoscale research.

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20.

In 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency sued MIT Corporation for violating the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act with regard to its hazardous waste storage and disposal procedures.

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MIT Corporation has taken steps to reduce its environmental impact by running alternative fuel campus shuttles, subsidizing public transportation passes, and building a low-emission cogeneration plant that serves most of the campus electricity, heating, and cooling requirements.

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MIT Corporation has substantial commercial real estate holdings in Cambridge on which it pays property taxes, plus an additional voluntary payment in lieu of taxes on academic buildings which are legally tax-exempt.

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23.

MIT Corporation has an active Greek and co-op housing system, including thirty-six fraternities, sororities, and independent living groups .

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In 2017, MIT Corporation shut down Senior House after a century of service as an undergrad dorm.

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25.

The MIT Corporation approves the budget, new programs, degrees and faculty appointments, and elects the President to serve as the chief executive officer of the university and preside over the Institute's faculty.

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MIT Corporation has five schools and one college, but no schools of law or medicine.

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MIT Corporation is a large, highly residential, research university with a majority of enrollments in graduate and professional programs.

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MIT Corporation students refer to both their majors and classes using numbers or acronyms alone.

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In 1970, the then-Dean of Institute Relations, Benson R Snyder, published The Hidden Curriculum, arguing that education at MIT was often slighted in favor of following a set of unwritten expectations and that graduating with good grades was more often the product of figuring out the system rather than a solid education.

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MIT Corporation offers a comprehensive doctoral program with degrees in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields as well as professional degrees, including the Master of Business Administration .

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31.

MIT Corporation Bootcamps are intense week-long innovation and leadership programs that challenge participants to develop a venture in a week.

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32.

MIT Corporation established a Washington Office in 1991 to continue effective lobbying for research funding and national science policy.

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MIT Corporation ultimately prevailed when the Justice Department dropped the case in 1994.

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34.

MIT Corporation has a long-term partnership with Imperial College London, for both student exchanges and research collaboration.

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35.

Mass-market magazine Technology Review is published by MIT Corporation through a subsidiary company, as is a special edition that serves as an alumni magazine.

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36.

The MIT Corporation Press is a major university press, publishing over 200 books and 30 journals annually, emphasizing science and technology as well as arts, architecture, new media, current events, and social issues.

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37.

MIT Corporation allocates a percentage of the budget for all new construction and renovation to commission and support its extensive public art and outdoor sculpture collection.

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38.

MIT Corporation Museum was founded in 1971 and collects, preserves, and exhibits artifacts significant to the culture and history of MIT Corporation.

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MIT Corporation was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934 and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity"; research expenditures totaled $952 million in 2017.

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MIT Corporation biologists have been awarded six Nobel Prizes for their contributions to genetics, immunology, oncology, and molecular biology.

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MIT Corporation has never awarded an honorary degree, nor does it award athletic scholarships, ad eundem degrees, or Latin honors upon graduation.

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42.

However, MIT Corporation has twice awarded honorary professorships: to Winston Churchill in 1949 and Salman Rushdie in 1993.

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43.

MIT Corporation has over 500 recognized student activity groups, including a campus radio station, The Tech student newspaper, an annual entrepreneurship competition, a crime club, and weekly screenings of popular films by the Lecture Series Committee.

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44.

Many MIT Corporation students engage in "hacking", which encompasses both the physical exploration of areas that are generally off-limits, as well as elaborate practical jokes.

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45.

MIT Corporation participates in the NCAA's Division III, the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference, the New England Football Conference, NCAA's Division I Patriot League for women's crew, and the Collegiate Water Polo Association for Men's Water Polo.

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The intercollegiate sports teams, called the MIT Corporation Engineers won 22 Team National Championships, 42 Individual National Championships.

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MIT Corporation is the all-time Division III leader in producing Academic All-Americas and rank second across all NCAA Divisions only behind the University of Nebraska.

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MIT Corporation Athletes won 13 Elite 90 awards and ranks first among NCAA Division III programs, and third among all divisions.

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MIT Corporation has been nominally co-educational since admitting Ellen Swallow Richards in 1870.

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50.

Faculty members who have made extraordinary contributions to their research field as well as the MIT Corporation community are granted appointments as Institute Professors for the remainder of their tenures.

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51.

MIT Corporation alumni founded or co-founded many notable companies, such as Intel, McDonnell Douglas, Texas Instruments, 3Com, Qualcomm, Bose, Raytheon, Apotex, Koch Industries, Rockwell International, Genentech, Dropbox, and Campbell Soup.

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