THANK YOU Prior to the Giant Leaps Boston Pops performance, many members and friends of the department gathered with Apollo participants and Giant Leaps speakers for the Jerome C. Hunsaker Dinner at Symphony Hall. It was an opportunity to share food and fellowship and to thank many of the people who have so generously given to support AeroAstro, especially those who have supported our initiative to significantly increase the number of endowed fellowships for graduate student education and research. We recognized several people in attendance, including Professor Emeritus Y.T. Li for his fellowship gift
In grand MIT tradition, on May 17, 2009 unnamed students presented their tribute to Giant Leaps, AeroAstro, and the anniversary of the moon landing. On that Sunday morning, the Cambridge, and Boston communities awoke to discover a hack lunar module residing atop the Great Dome. (William Litant/MIT photo)
which has supported many graduate students in the department throughout the years; Arthur and Linda Gelb for their support of the AeroAstro Gelb Laboratory, a wonderful venue for hands-on undergraduate education, and also for their very generous graduate fellowship fund; Dan Schwinn and Caterina Bandini for recently establishing the Avidyne Fellowships and for other gifts to the department over the last several years. We announced new gifts to the department, including the David and Patricia Vos Foundation Fellowship that will focus on supporting exceptional international graduate students. David is a graduate alumnus of the department who established the company AthenaTI, which was recently acquired by Rockwell-Collins. We
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