Committed to Caring

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. 18 MIT professors were selected as recipients of the C2C award for 2025-27. These individuals join the ranks of nearly 100 previous C2C honorees.

The following faculty members are the 2025-2027 Committed to Caring honorees:

  • Iwnetim Abate, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  • Abdullah Almaatouq, MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Marc A. Baldo, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Anna-Christina Eilers, Department of Physics
  • Herbert Einstein, Department of Civil and Environment Engineering
  • Dennis M. Freeman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Daniel Hidalgo, Department of Political Science
  • Erin Kara, Department of Physics
  • Laura Lewis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Lina Necib, Department of Physics
  • Sara Prescott, Department of Biology
  • Ellen Roche, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Loza Tadesse, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Haruko Murakami Wainwright, Department of Nuclear Science
  • Fan Wang, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
  • Forest White, Department of Biological Engineering
  • Bin Zhang, Department of Chemistry

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.