Celebrating excellence in mentorship
The Committed to Caring (C2C) program at MIT is a student-driven initiative that celebrates faculty members who have served as exceptional mentors to graduate students. Twenty-three MIT professors have been selected as recipients of the C2C award for 2023-25, marking the most extensive cohort of honorees to date. These individuals join the ranks of 75 previous C2C honorees.
The following faculty members are the 2023-2025 Committed to Caring honorees:
- Hamsa Balakrishnan, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Cynthia Breazeal, Media Lab
- Roberto Fernandez, Sloan School of Management
- Nuh Gedik, Department of Physics
- Mariya Grinberg, Department of Political Science
- Ming Guo, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Myriam Heiman, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science
- Rohit Karnik, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Erik Lin-Greenberg, Department of Political Science
- Michael McDonald, Department of Physics
- Emery Neal Brown, Department of Health Sciences and Technology
- Wanda Orlikowski, Sloan School of Management
- Kenneth Oye, Department of Political Science
- Kristala Prather, Department of Chemical Engineering
- Zachary Seth Hartwig, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Tracy Slatyer, Department of Physics
- Iain Stewart, Department of Physics
- Andrew Vanderburg, Department of Physics
- Rodrigo Verdi, Sloan School of Management
- Xiao Wang, Department of Chemistry
- Ariel White, Department of Political Science
- Nathan Wilmers, Sloan School of Management
- Maria Yang, Department of Mechanical Engineering
One or more honorees are celebrated roughly each month of the academic year though a broad poster campaign, MIT News articles, and profiles on this site. Find all profiles posted to date in the honoree index.