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— MIT President Sally Kornbluth

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MIT President Sally Kornbluth

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
MIT President Sally Kornbluth

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.

Sally Kornbluth

MIT President
MIT President Sally Kornbluth

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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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Celebrating the people behind Kendall Square’s innovation ecosystem

The 16th Annual Meeting of the Kendall Square Association honored community members for their work bringing impactful innovations to bear on humanity’s biggest challenges.
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Two Founder Awards were given to MIT Professor Sangeeta Bhatia, left, and Johnson & Johnson Innovation Head Michal Preminger for their work bringing people together to achieve hard things that benefit humanity.

Liftoff: The Climate Project at MIT takes flight

The major effort to accelerate practical climate change solutions launches as its mission directors meet the Institute community.
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Monday’s event, “The Climate Project at MIT: Launching the Missions,” drew a capacity crowd at the Samberg Center. The project is “a whole-of-MIT mobilization,” President Sally A. Kornbluth said in her opening remarks.

President Kornbluth welcomes the Class of 2028

“Empathy and respect are central values here,” Kornbluth tells MIT’s newest students and their families at the President’s Convocation.
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Addressing incoming students and their families, President Sally Kornbluth acknowledged that the MIT experience can be intense. “But if you sometimes get frustrated or feel stuck,” she said, “please know: We all do! And you don’t have to go it alone.”

Mission directors announced for the Climate Project at MIT

The effort to accelerate climate work at the Institute adds to its leadership team.
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The Climate Project at MIT is a major new effort to change the trajectory of global climate outcomes for the better over the next decade.

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