First MIT dorm for women was far from campus, in the home of a grad who also provided shuttles
After just 22 women were admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. officials decided to improve the environment and resources available for female students. Katharine Dexter McCormick, from the Class of 1904, stepped in to bridge a gap between intention and construction.
Tonight’s ‘How Has Food Mended Cambridge?’ explores how our cuisines shaped community
Hear a panel discuss the coming of Asian, African, Latin American and Middle Eastern restaurants affected Cambridge in the 20th century. To what extent did they create a deeper awareness of the struggles and contributions of immigrants? How did eating “new” foods affect the political climate?
Buckminster Fuller, expelled from Harvard twice, returned as a poet and ‘technology incarnate’
Richard Buckminster Fuller was an architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist – and a notoriously flop as a Harvard College student. But he had more positive experiences in Cambridge, including a stint as a visiting Harvard professor in the early 1960s.