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GradThriving with Legos & Puzzles!

GradThriving with Legos & Puzzles!

October 14, 2025

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

Graduate Fellowships Overview – October 2025

October 15, 2025

Why are fellowships great? What is the application process? What are the types of resources available?

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Recent Blog Posts

Trading the Field for the Lab

October 8, 2025

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

September 17, 2025

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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September 10, 2025

“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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Recent News

Riccardo Comin, two MIT alumni named 2025 Moore Experimental Physics Investigators

October 9, 2025

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

October 9, 2025

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

September 30, 2025

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. […]

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