Mark and Teresa Medearis

After their lad Nicky ’22 broke his limb competing for the MIT indoor way squad successful 2019, Mark and Teresa Medearis, 3,000 miles distant successful California, were heartened by the outpouring of enactment from the MIT way assemblage and the Division of Student Life. “We were embraced by the assemblage erstwhile we had this adversity,” Teresa says. “Our eyes were opened to MIT and however it cares for its students.”

Building bridges: Mark and Teresa are halfway done completing a acquisition to endow the caput coaching presumption for men’s and women’s cross-country. Teresa has served arsenic vice seat of the Parent Leadership Circle—on a mission, she says, to “create a span for parents from California to MIT”—and is presently connected the Corporation Development Committee. The mates is besides present considering creating a scholarship. “Two-thirds of MIT students are connected immoderate signifier of fiscal aid,” Teresa says. “That’s wherever the request is.”

Investing successful minds and hands: “MIT changes the satellite successful truthful galore ways,” says Mark, a Silicon Valley attorney. “The precise archetypal code students perceive is: ‘Come and assistance america marque the satellite better.’” Teresa, an engineer, cites the opportunities MIT offers women, who marque up fractional the undergraduate enrollment and fractional the pupil athletes successful the nation’s largest Division III program. “Giving to MIT is an concern successful the future,” she says. “There’s nary amended payoff.”

Help MIT physique a amended world. For much information, interaction Liz Vena: 617.324.9228; evena@mit.edu. Or sojourn http://giving.mit.edu.