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DOE CSGF 2025 Application Q&A
Please join Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) staff as they host an informational application webinar.
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MIT EMBA: Program Insights Event (Winter 2025)
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Hybrid: MIT Sloan School of Management & via Zoom
Recent Blog Posts
Productivity After Chaos
This summer, I spent much of my free time digging through my high school diaries. I was a boring diary writer—instead of long entries detailing friendship drama or failed crushes, most of my diary entries were to-do lists and resolutions. “Write paper,” “get up at 5:30 AM,” “5 miles of running per week,” and so […]
Cambridge in the In-Between Moments
Some of my favorite moments in Cambridge weren’t planned. They weren’t the kinds of things you’d mark on a calendar or schedule your week around. They just happened, quietly and unexpectedly, while I was trying to get home, find dinner, or avoid doing my laundry for the third night in a row. And I’ve noticed […]
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 […]
Recent News
Returning farming to city centers
A new class is giving MIT students the opportunity to examine the historical and practical considerations of urban farming while developing a real-world understanding of its value by working alongside a local farm’s community. Course 4.182 (Resilient Urbanism: Green Commons in the City) is taught in two sections by instructors in the Program in Science, Technology, […]
Phil Sharp-Alnylam Fund for Emerging Scientists to support MIT biology graduate students and faculty
It’s no question that graduate school in fundamental research was never for the faint of heart, but academia’s nationwide funding disruptions threaten not just research happening now, but the critical pipeline for the next generation of scientists. “What’s keeping me up at night is the uncertainty,” says MIT Institute Professor and Nobel laureate Phillip A. […]
John Marshall and Erin Kara receive postdoctoral mentoring award
Shining a light on the critical role of mentors in a postdoc’s career, the MIT Postdoctoral Association presented the fourth annual Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Awards to professors John Marshall and Erin Kara. The awards honor faculty and principal investigators who have distinguished themselves across four areas: the professional development opportunities they provide, the work environment they create, […]
