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The College of Natural Sciences welcomed more than a dozen new tenured and tenure-track faculty members in 2025.

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Renowned experimental physicist, Nobel laureate and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, passed away on Aug. 25 at the age of 92. Nergis Mavalvala, dean of the MIT ...