AMITA News Archive

 

=> Dava Newman '89 - her space suit invention is listed in a top ten best inventions by Time Magazine. [MIT Spotlight]

=> Yoky Matsuoka PhD '98 and alumnus Saul T. Griffith PhD '04 win MacArthur 'Genius' Grants. [The Tech article] and [MIT Newsoffice article]

=> On Wednesday November 14, 2007, 7pm AMITA heard from Professor Fionna Murray on Women in Biotech: Why the Lag in Commercialization? Discover from Professor Fiona Murray why women were significantly less likely to participate in activities including patenting, scientific advisory board membership and firm founding in the life sciences. [Event details] [MIT Sloan Q&A] and [Spectrum article]

=> Thoroughly Modern Millie: Mildred Dresselhaus '86, HM receives award for women in science. Millie is one of only five honorary AMITA members ever, as she has done so much for women at MIT. Please join AMITA in celebrating this award and watch the video! [MIT News Office]

=> Remembering Denice Dee Denton '82, Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who died June 24, 2006 in California, an apparent suicide. Many women who were students at MIT in the 70s and 80s knew her as she actively worked to make sure that women would be welcome in engineering. [More]