Introduction

The Association of MIT Alumnae is dedicated to providing a means for former women students to maintain contact with each other and MIT. We also support current women students at MIT with our various on-campus activities, giving them a chance to meet and talk to alumnae. We hold a variety of events around the country to provide alumnae with an opportunity to stay in touch and to stay informed about issues and developments that are relevant to their lives.

Board meetings are the second Wednesday of each month. Contact Sarah Simon '72 for details.

History

AMITA has a long and rich history and was founded in 1899...

125 Years of MIT Women
Ellen Henrietta (Swallow) Richards (1842-1911) was the first woman awarded a Bachelor of Science from the Institute of Technology in Boston, in 1873. In honor of the 125th anniversary of this event, an exhibit was created to celebrate the history of women at MIT.

Past Presidents of AMITA and MITWA

Margaret MacVicar Memorial AMITA Oral History Project

Did You Know??

An MIT alumna designed MIT's Great Court? Or which architecture graduate might have been selling suffragette papers at the Boston Common? Check out "Against all Odds / MIT's Pioneering Women of Landscape Architecture" [Full paper] [Visual presentation]

Check out "The MIT Coed: Then and Now" from the Technology Review, December, 1955. This survey was taken in 1955!
"She never held me on her knee
But she was all the world to me
...
With Calculus she was well bred.
My Mother was a Tech coed."

Ellencyclopedia!

Take a few minutes to read the newest article from Tech Review about MIT's first alumna, Ellen Swallow Richards (1873)!

...and the letter in Technology Review about AMITA's perspective on Ellen Swallow Richards written by AMITA's president, Sarah Simon.

AMITA Awards and Scholarships

The AMITA Academic Award is presented annually by AMITA to one or more senior woman students who demonstrate the highest level of academic excellence and professional promise through course work and academic endeavors at MIT.