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GradThriving with Legos & Puzzles!
Build mini-Legos! Brought to you by OGE GradThriving! Take a break, relax and unwind! Tuesday, October 14th from 3-5 pm in the Bush Room, 10-105 Free snacks, mini Legos sets and jigsaw puzzles for first 100 registrants. Register here for this free and fun graduate student event! Brought to you by the Office of Graduate […]
Graduate Fellowships Overview – October 2025
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Trading the Field for the Lab
Many of us are drawn to science by questions we have not found satisfying answers to. During my undergraduate I worked as a research assistant in a field ecology lab, and I fell in love with biology through the patterns and connections found in nature that I could not find a complete description of. In […]
My Ironman preparation: zero to Ironman in 7 months
When I decided to train for an Ironman, I wasn’t coming in with a background in endurance sports; I was starting from scratch. For me, it wasn’t about chasing numbers or obsessing over the fanciest gear; it was about stepping away from the pressure and seeing what would happen if I simply tried to do […]
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“Where are you?” A buzz in my pocket. A text from Mir. I quickly responded, “Just 10 minutes.” I knew it was not just 10 minutes. I was at least half an hour away. But I couldn’t say that to Mir. Mir, Vasu, and Shaurya were waiting outside the station. “I’m very late. They will […]
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Riccardo Comin, two MIT alumni named 2025 Moore Experimental Physics Investigators
MIT associate professor of physics Riccardo Comin has been selected as 2025 Experimental Physics Investigator by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Two MIT physics alumni — Gyu-Boong Jo PhD ’10 of Rice University, and Ben Jones PhD ’15 of the University of Texas at Arlington — were also among this year’s cohort of 22 honorees. The prestigious Experimental […]
MIT-affiliated physicists win McMillan Award for discovery of exotic electronic state
Last year, MIT physicists reported in the journal Nature that electrons can become fractions of themselves in graphene, an atomically thin form of carbon. This exotic electronic state, called the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAHE), could enable more robust forms of quantum computing. Now two young MIT-affiliated physicists involved in the discovery of FQAHE […]
3 Questions: How a new mission to Uranus could be just around the corner
The successful test of SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle, following a series of engineering challenges and failed launches, has reignited excitement over the possibilities this massive rocket may unlock for humanity’s greatest ambitions in space. The largest rocket ever built, Starship and its 33-engine “super heavy” booster completed a full launch into Earth orbit on Aug. […]
