Timeline

Susan Hockfield served as the 16th President of MIT from 2004-2012. This timeline represents some of the accomplishments and milestones of her tenure.

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2010

November 09, 2010
Joined Harvard president Drew Faust on the Charlie Rose Show for discussion about the state of higher education in the United States
October 11, 2010
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences awarded to Professor Peter Diamond
October 05, 2010
Participated in groundbreaking of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center
September 13, 2010
Spoke on the urgent need to build a K-12 STEM teacher corps, at the Brookings Institution
August 14, 2010
Published a Boston Globe op-ed with Paul E. Jacobs, Chairman and CEO of Qualcomm, supporting reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act
June 21, 2010
Celebrated the creation of the Tsinghua-MIT-CUHK Joint Center for Theoretical Computer Science at Tsinghua University
May 19, 2010
Created new dining plan for undergraduates
April 16, 2010
Hosted a roundtable with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and other university leaders
March 29, 2010
With the Council on Competitiveness, hosted a roundtable discussion on “The Future of Manufacturing – Advanced Technologies”
March 26, 2010
Received an honorary doctorate from France’s leading scientific university, the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)
March 05, 2010
Dedicated the new Media Lab complex
February 17, 2010
Addressed the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Executive Forum
January 27, 2010
Attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
January 25, 2010
Committed MIT to collaborating in the creation of The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
January 14, 2010
Shared the findings of the Report on the Initiative for Faculty Race and Diversity