The MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing Information Webinar
Learn about the MIT Program in Science Writing. Registration is required.
Community and Culture: Women’s Visit Day (10 am Class)
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM EST | Join MIT Sloan students, staff, and faculty on campus to learn how our mission-driven school inspires cutting-edge thinking and prepares the next generation of principled leaders. Participants will sit in on a mock class, attend an admissions information session, and have lunch with current students.
Community and Culture: Class Visit Day (10:30 am Class)
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM EST | Join MIT Sloan students, staff, and faculty on campus to learn how our mission-driven school inspires cutting-edge thinking and prepares the next generation of principled leaders. Participants will sit in on a mock class, attend an admissions information session, and have lunch with current students.
MIT-WHOI Joint Program Information Session
4:00 PM EDT
MIT-WHOI Joint Program Information Session
11:00 AM EDT
DUSP MCP Info Session
10 AM | Admissions info session for the degree of Master in City Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.
DUSP MCP Open House
12 PM | Admissions info session for the degree of Master in City Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.
DUSP MCP Info Session
10 AM | Admissions info session for the degree of Master in City Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.
MIT Executive MBA Fall 2026 Campus Visit
6 PM – 8 PM | Join us on campus in Cambridge, MA for an in-person Executive MBA campus visit. Hear from one of our world-renowned faculty during a lecture, connect with current students and alumni through a panel, and experience the collaborative energy of our learning community.
Inside the MIT EMBA: What Makes a Competitive Application
12 PM | Join Sarah Massey, Senior Associate Director, Admissions, and Anupa Isaac, Admissions Advisor, for an interactive webinar on what makes a competitive application and how to position yours.
Inside the MIT EMBA: Program Overview
Get an insider’s perspective on the MIT Executive MBA directly from our Admissions Committee. Join Sarah Massey, Senior Associate Director, Admissions, and Anupa Isaac, Admissions Advisor, for an interactive program overview designed to help you understand what makes the MIT EMBA Distinctive—and what it takes to apply.
Graduate Fellowships Overview – September 2026
Why are fellowships great? What is the application process? What are the types of resources available?
National Student Parent Month: Kathryn Urban
National Student Parent Month: Kathryn Urban Celebrating MIT’s graduate student parents Happy National Student Parent Month! This month, the Office of Graduate Education is featuring one graduate student parent per week, highlighting their academic work and parenting journey at MIT. Stay tuned for more student parent features! Kathryn UrbanFamily: 9-month-old daughter, Ruth, and husband, David.Degree […]
Iwnetim Abate
How do you build something that lasts? For Professor Iwnetim ‘Tim’ Abate, the answer is the same whether he’s reimagining how the materials beneath our feet can store energy and manufacture essential chemicals, or mentoring MIT’s future researchers: focus on the foundation. Rocks provide an unexpected thread connecting Abate’s research and his approach to mentorship. […]
NSF Presentation – Interested NSF GRFP Applicants #2
Presentation providing an overview of the NSF GRFP at MIT for students looking to apply to the NSF GRFP this fall!
Five easy reads for getting back into reading
I used to read a lot. I was never one of those people casually finishing hundreds of books a year, but reading was a regular part of my life. I always had a book with me, I read before bed, and I could spend hours in a bookstore deciding what to pick next. Then grad […]
NSF Presentation – Interested NSF GRFP Applicants
Presentation providing an overview of the NSF GRFP at MIT for students looking to apply to the NSF GRFP this fall!
2026 Pathways to the PhD – ATL
Are you curious about pursuing a PhD in STEM? MIT and Spelman College want to help you explore your path. This one-day symposium is designed to support college students, recent graduates, and postgraduate students in exploring and preparing for STEM PhD programs.
OGE Breakfast Pop-up
Join the Office of Graduate Education & your fellow grad students for breakfast in the Den (3-108)! Tasty treats and coffee will keep you moving for Orientation week. Let us know you’re coming with your MIT email address so we have enough food!
How architects turned a hulking brick box into MIT’s newest academic hub
It started with a vision: Move MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) into the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse, an unoccupied, fortress-like brick building on MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After all, SA+P needed more space and new facilities. And here, visible from its old offices across the street, was an unused building the size of […]
Faculty receive promotions in the School of Architecture and Planning for 2026
The MIT School of Architecture and Planning recognized 11 faculty members with promotions for their significant contributions to the school, effective July 1, 2026. Four faculty promotions are in the Department of Architecture, three are in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), and four are in the program in Media Arts and Sciences. […]
Student Spotlight: Isabel Duran
This interview is part of a series of short interviews from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Each spotlight features a student answering their choice of questions about themselves and life at MIT. Isabel Duran, a junior majoring in Course 6-5 (Electrical Engineering With Computing), keeps a packed schedule: You may spot […]
3 Questions: The essential role of international engagement
Vice Provost for International Activities Duane Boning oversees MIT’s international policies and engagements. Here he discusses why international engagement remains vital to MIT’s mission of advancing knowledge, educating students, and innovating to serve the nation and the world. Q: Why does MIT consider international engagement important to its institutional mission? A: International engagement is an integral part of […]
National Student Parent Month: Nicholas Maurer
One graduate student family treasures the community they found alongside other MIT student parents Nicholas MaurerFamily: Children Elaine (5) and Zachary (3), and wife Andrea.Degree program: PhD in Data, Systems, and SocietyYears at MIT: 2 For Nicholas Maurer, an international PhD student from Australia pursuing his degree in Data, Systems, and Society, MIT was a […]
A new kind of aircraft departs an MIT classroom and arrives at an Ohio factory
A former MIT class project is becoming an $850 million effort to manufacture a new kind of aircraft in Ohio. Electra began as an idea for a hybrid plane that could take off from shorter runways than traditional airplanes but have more range and speed than all-electric aircraft. Now, like other great MIT projects, it’s […]
Gage Coon: An Earth scientist exploring the power of microbes
Growing up in Waverly, Tennessee, Gage Coon spent much of his childhood outside. His family had everything from chickens to horses and even an emu named Big Bird. Coon and his cousins would explore the woods surrounding their home, and his father, a mechanic, taught him how to build and repair things around the house. […]
How MIT Sandbox has turned student ideas into $8.7 billion in global impact
Although Jacob Becraft had two swings and two misses when he first tried to become an entrepreneur as a graduate student, the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program allowed him to keep at it. This especially benefited cancer patients, as Becraft went on to co-found Strand Therapeutics: a $550-million firm whose programmable mRNA drug has shrunk […]
How an MIT graduate student helped a team of young scientists test their experiment at CERN
This past spring, MIT physics graduate student Manu Srivastava opened an email from a group of high school students in India he had never met. They were hoping to enter Beamline for Schools, an international competition that gives secondary school students the chance to design and carry out experiments using particle accelerator beams. And they […]
MIT Quantum Initiative launches postdoctoral fellowship program
The MIT Quantum Initiative (QMIT) has launched a new postdoctoral fellowship program to accelerate interdisciplinary quantum research and develop the next generation of scientific leaders working at the frontiers of quantum science and technology. Supported by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the program reflects QMIT’s vision of expanding the boundaries of quantum […]
Translating economic growth into better lives
Solving complex social problems with multiple interrelated causes can involve juggling a variety of factors. Securing funding, designing the right programs, and sustaining the political will necessary to implement them demands a targeted approach. Lyonel Tanganco, a graduate student in MIT’s Master in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) program, seeks to connect data, policy, […]
Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities
Before Ila Kumar thinks about how to build technology, she asks a different question: What is the context that technology will operate in, and who needs to be involved in the design? For Kumar, meaningful innovation doesn’t result from engineers or designers working in isolation. Instead, she believes the best innovations emerge when the people […]
Merit and Impact: Writing Compelling NSF GRFP Statements
Join MIT’s Writing and Communication Center for a workshop on how to write your personal and research statements for the NSF-GRFP application.
PhD 101: What I Wished I Knew
Join the Office of Graduate Education Grad Thriving for an informal presentation for PhD students in E14-648 | Media Lab Silverman Skyline Room on Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM (Eastern Time). Packed with pro tips, strategies, and MIT-specific guidance on starting your PhD journey, this event also leaves plenty of time for questions. Come get all the […]
