Investing Part 1 – Five Money Musts
Getting your finances to the point where you can begin thinking about investing as a vehicle for your money!
Graduate Fellowships at MIT: Sept 28
Why are fellowships great? What is the application process? What are the types of resources available? Tips on personal statements and research proposals.
Graduate Fellowships at MIT: Sept 27
Why are fellowships great? What is the application process? What are the types of resources available? Tips on personal statements and research proposals.
M’Care and MIT students join forces to improve child health in Nigeria
Through a collaboration between M’Care, a 2021 Health Security and Pandemics Solver team, and students from MIT, the landscape of child health care in Nigeria could undergo a transformative change, wherein the power of data is harnessed to improve child health outcomes in economically disadvantaged communities. M’Care is a mobile application of Promane and Promade […]
NSF GRFP at MIT Webinar: Sept 14
Interested in applying to the NSF GRFP? Want to know all the details on, who can apply, how to apply, and what the benefits of applying are? (Session on Sept 13 will share the same content.)
NSF GRFP at MIT Webinar: Sept 13
Interested in applying to the NSF GRFP? Want to know all the details on, who can apply, how to apply, and what the benefits of applying are? (Session on Sept 14 will share the same content.)
MIT at the 2023 Venice Biennale
The Venice Architecture Biennale, the world’s largest and most visited exhibition focusing on architecture, is once again featuring work by many MIT faculty, students, and alumni. On view through Nov. 26, the 2023 biennale, curated by Ghanaian-Scottish architect, academic, and novelist Lesley Lokko, is showcasing projects responding to the theme of “The Laboratory of Change.” […]
Fourteen MIT School of Science professors receive tenure for 2022 and 2023
In 2022, nine MIT faculty were granted tenure in the School of Science: Gloria Choi examines the interaction of the immune system with the brain and the effects of that interaction on neurodevelopment, behavior, and mood. She also studies how social behaviors are regulated according to sensory stimuli, context, internal state, and physiological status, and […]
Freeman Hrabowski encourages students to “hold fast to dreams” and take time for laughter
A group of more than 50 individuals recently had the pleasure of sitting down for an informal chat at MIT with distinguished educator, author, and mathematician Freeman Hrabowski. The group was predominantly composed of MIT Summer Research Program in Biology (MSRP-Bio) students and alumni and current students from the Meyerhoff Scholars Program and the University […]
Communicating across time
Since the invention of the telegraph, humans have been able to communicate across great distances in real-time. Today, we can choose among myriad technologies — radio, telephone, video conference platforms — to connect with colleagues and loved ones in different time zones, countries, and continents. These technologies create a telepresence — a sense of nearness […]
Invisible tagging system enhances 3D object tracking
Stop me if you’ve seen this before: a black and white pixelated square in lieu of a physical menu at a restaurant. QR codes are seemingly ubiquitous in everyday life. Whether you see one on a coupon at the grocery store, a flyer on a bulletin board, or the wall at a museum exhibit, each […]
3 Questions: Noah Nathan and Ariel White on Global Diversity Lab summer internships
In June and July, the Global Diversity Lab (GDL) in the Department of Political Science hosted its first GDL Summer Research Program. Pathways@GDL is aimed at broadening the pipeline into U.S. political science PhD programs. Four current undergraduates from U.S. universities and two current master’s students at African universities mixed research assistant work and their own independent research projects, professionalizing their […]
Summer research offers a springboard to advanced studies
Doctoral studies at MIT aren’t a calling for everyone, but they can be for anyone who has had opportunities to discover that science and technology research is their passion and to build the experience and skills to succeed. For Taylor Baum, Josefina Correa Menéndez, and Karla Alejandra Montejo, three graduate students in just one lab […]
How the body’s cells work together in response to infection
Constantine Tzouanas aims to deconstruct, understand, and engineer complex biological systems by studying their smallest units — individual cells. “The analogy I like to use is whenever you see a broken car, it’s very easy to describe that the windshield is broken, the bumper is crumpled,” says the fourth-year PhD candidate. “It’s much harder to […]
Studying how children learn words with no meaning
Researchers at the MIT Language Acquisition Lab are using funds from the 2022 Levitan Prize in the Humanities to carry out a set of studies investigating children’s acquisition of “expletives” or “dummy words” — words that don’t seem to have any meaning. Associate professor of linguistics Athulya Aravind, who received her PhD in linguistics at MIT in 2018, was […]
MIT Code for Good Club works with local nonprofits
Computer hackers who break into websites, change the code, and do harm are very real. But MIT Code for Good members want to do just the opposite. This group of mostly electrical engineering and computer science majors (EECS, Course 6) wants to help important causes. Each semester, club members consult with nonprofits in the Boston […]
Professor Emeritus Sanjoy Mitter, expert in the theoretical foundations of systems, communication, and control, dies at 89
MIT Professor Emeritus (post-tenure) Sanjoy Mitter, a member of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, died June 26 at age 89. An expert in the theoretical foundations of systems, communication and control, Mitter contributed to significant engineering applications, most notably in the control of interconnected power systems and pattern recognition. Sanjoy Mitter […]
A phoenix rising from the ashes
It was 11 am on a crisp fall morning and I was standing in the North End of Boston carrying six bags full of pastries and struggling to walk to the rideshare pickup. I had visited three different bakeries to get every student who signed up for an event I was hosting their custom pastry […]
Denzil A. Streete appointed Senior Associate Dean and Director of the OGE
View the email announcement from Ian Waitz, Vice Chancellor. Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that Denzil A. Streete, PhD, has been appointed as Senior Associate Dean and Director of the Office of Graduate Education (OGE). He will begin on September 12 and succeeds Blanche Staton, who retired this past spring after serving for […]
Using social media to raise awareness of women’s resources
The Covid-19 pandemic created a global increase in domestic violence against women. Now, an MIT-led experiment designed with that fact in mind shows that some forms of social media can increase awareness among women about where to find resources and support for addressing domestic violence. In the randomized experiment, set in Egypt, women recruited via […]
Grad Blog Workshop: Apply by Sept. 5
Have something to say or share? Then blog about it! The MIT Graduate Admissions Blog will conduct a September workshop on blog writing for interested current MIT grad students. In brief, If you are a current MIT graduate student and would like to participate, you can apply here by 11:59pm on Tuesday, September 5. You must be […]
A cool path to disease deceleration
In 2020, Kathrin “Kat” Kajderowicz’s father passed away from lung cancer. Kajderowicz was in charge of her father’s health care for as long as she can remember. While he suffered from various cardiovascular issues for several years, it wasn’t until the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic that he was diagnosed with late-stage metastatic small-cell lung […]
Helping to fill in gaps in urology research for female patients
There were early signs that Nicole De Nisco ’07, PhD ’13 might become a scientist. She ran out of science classes to take in high school and fondly remembers the teacher that encouraged her to pursue science instead of the humanities. But she ended up at MIT, in part, out of spite. “I applied because […]
New method simplifies the construction process for complex materials
Engineers are constantly searching for materials with novel, desirable property combinations. For example, an ultra-strong, lightweight material could be used to make airplanes and cars more fuel-efficient, or a material that is porous and biomechanically friendly could be useful for bone implants. Cellular metamaterials — artificial structures composed of units, or cells, that repeat in […]
Leading business past dollars and cents
How does Annabel Flores work to defeat a broken STEM pipeline while solving our country’s biggest aerospace and defense challenges? She uses a voice the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program instilled in her. Flores ’99, MBA ’03, SM ’03 is deputy president of land and air defense at Raytheon, a prominent aerospace and […]
Ben Schneider
What does a graduate student do when the whole world shuts down? In March 2020, many grad students at MIT were asking themselves that question. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a matter of days MIT’s campus had closed down, research had ground to a halt, and students were sent home. During these tumultuous times, […]
Changing attitudes about jobs and gender in India
As a high school student who loved math, Lisa Ho ’17 was drawn by MIT’s spirit of “mens et manus” (“mind and hand”) and the opportunities to study both a subject and its practical applications. Now a PhD candidate in economics, Ho also appreciates the lessons in perseverance gleaned from her time on her high […]
3 Questions: What’s it like winning the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition?
Solar power plays a major role in nearly every roadmap for global decarbonization. But solar panels are large, heavy, and expensive, which limits their deployment. But what if solar panels looked more like a yoga mat? Such a technology could be transported in a roll, carried to the top of a building, and rolled out […]
Not your grandparents’ “Monopoly”
On an otherwise sleepy Friday in late June, one corner of MIT’s Hayden Library was abuzz with the sounds of board gamers at play. Most of the gamers also happened to be first-time designers, and they had gathered to test out their maiden boards, some with the ink still drying. “I printed my game this […]
Helping the transportation sector adapt to a changing world
After graduating from college, Nick Caros took a job as an engineer with a construction company, helping to manage the building of a new highway bridge right near where he grew up outside of Vancouver, British Columbia. “I had a lot of friends that would use that new bridge to get to work,” Caros […]
Support outside the comfort zone
What does a graduate student do when the whole world shuts down? In March 2020, many grad students at MIT were asking themselves that question. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a matter of days MIT’s campus had closed down, research had ground to a halt, and students were sent home. During these tumultuous times, […]
On a mission to uplift others and save the endangered Marma language
MIT graduate student Rani Ukhengching Marma is one of nearly 200,000 Marma people who speak the endangered Marma language. The Marma are one of the largest Indigenous groups in Bangladesh, where Bengali language and culture are dominant. For Ukheng, who is enrolled in the MIT Indigenous Languages Initiative (MITILI), preserving Marma is about more than the language […]
Cutting urban carbon emissions by retrofitting buildings
To support the worldwide struggle to reduce carbon emissions, many cities have made public pledges to cut their carbon emissions in half by 2030, and some have promised to be carbon neutral by 2050. Buildings can be responsible for more than half a municipality’s carbon emissions. Today, new buildings are typically designed in ways that […]
Statistics, operations research, and better algorithms
In this day and age, many companies and institutions are not just data-driven, but data-intensive. Insurers, health providers, government agencies, and social media platforms are all heavily dependent on data-rich models and algorithms to identify the characteristics of the people who use them, and to nudge their behavior in various ways. That doesn’t mean organizations […]
Astro Portraits: Pointing the lens toward our future
MIT PhD student Evan Kramer discovered his passion for astrophotography as a high schooler, when he realized words alone were failing to communicate the sense of wonder he found in stargazing. Since coming to MIT, his fascination has expanded into urban astrophotography, which combines technical skill with artistry in creating composite images using brightly lit […]
Thirty-four community members receive 2023 MIT Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service
Twenty-four individuals and one team were awarded MIT Excellence Awards — the highest awards for staff at the Institute — at a well-attended and energetic ceremony the afternoon of June 8 in Kresge Auditorium. In addition to the Excellence Awards, two community members were honored with the Collier Medal and Staff Award for Distinction in […]
