Upcoming Events
Department of Energy’s NNSA SSGF & LRGF Application Q&A
The Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science and Laboratory Residency graduate fellowships will offer a December 10 webinar to outline the 2026-27 application process and answer related questions.
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The End of the Semester Study Break!
Free Lunch! Join your fellow graduate students for lunch and relaxation in the Den (3-108). Drop by to pick up free lunch or stay and chat! Relax and put together a mini-brick set! Date: Wednesday, December 10th Time: 12-2:30 pm Location: 3-108, The Den Sponsored by the Office of Graduate Education Grad Thriving & Grad […]
Recent Blog Posts
The Best Professors Teach Humility
I used to despise economics. ECO101, the introductory economics course I took at the University of Toronto, had convinced me that the field only offered dangerous half-truths. “Minimum wage laws increase unemployment,” I was taught. “Rent control laws are economically harmful; fairness can and should instead be achieved through other means.” I had started the […]
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 […]
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, […]
