2024 Ivy Plus Puerto Rico
Wednesday, November 20th: UPR, Mayaguez and UPR, AguadillaThursday, November 21st: UPR – Rio Piedras and UPR, Humacao
2024 Afro Tech Conference
AFROTECH™ Conference is the largest Black tech conference of the year! Get ready to connect with a global community of 20,000+ Black tech innovators during a series of digital and in-person events filled with dynamic programming on emerging trends, networking opportunities with industry leaders and conversations with top tech recruiters.
Join the Grad Blog editorial team!
Dear MIT grad students, We’re excited to announce that the MIT Grad Blog is searching for several new editors! As you all know, the Grad Blog serves as an avenue for MIT students to share their experiences with peers and prospective students. As an editor, you would help bloggers like you hone their story into […]
A new focus on understanding the human element
A new MIT initiative aims to elevate human-centered research and teaching, and bring together scholars in the humanities, arts, and social sciences with their colleagues across the Institute. The MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) launched earlier this fall. A formal kickoff event for MITHIC was held on campus Monday, Oct. 28, before a full audience in […]
Bridging Talents and Opportunities Forum connects high school and college students with STEAM leaders and resources
Bridging Talents and Opportunities (BTO) held its second annual forum at the Stratton Student Center at MIT Oct. 11-12. The two-day event gathered over 500 participants, including high school students and their families, undergraduate students, professors, and leaders across STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) fields. The forum sought to empower talented students from […]
2024 Math Prize for Girls at MIT sees six-way tie
After 274 young women spent two-and-a-half hours working through 20 advanced math problems for the 16th annual Advantage Testing Foundation/Jane Street Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) contest held Oct. 4-6 at MIT, a six-way tie was announced. Hosted by the MIT Department of Mathematics and sponsored by the Advantage Testing Foundation and global trading firm Jane Street, MP4G is […]
Department of Energy CSGF Application Q&A
Facilitated by the Krell Institute’s DOE CSGF program manager, this presentation will cover program benefits, eligibility and Science/Engineering vs. Math/Computer Science Track options, plus insight into application components, including the program of study, reference letters and transcripts. The session will be limited to 90 minutes, including time for Q&A.
Department of Energy’s NNSA SSGF & LRGF Application Q&A
Facilitated by the Krell Institute’s DOE SSGF/LRGF program coordinator, this presentation will cover each program’s benefits and eligibility requirements, plus insight into application components. The session will be limited to 60 minutes, including time for Q&A.
Rallying around graduate student parents
Last month, the MIT Office of Graduate Education celebrated National Student Parent Month with features on four MIT graduate student parents. These students’ professional backgrounds, experiences, and years at MIT highlight aspects of diversity in our student parent population. Diana Grass is one of MIT’s most involved graduate student parents. Grass is a third-year PhD […]
MIT affiliates receive 2024-25 awards and honors from the American Physical Society
A number of individuals with MIT ties have received honors from the American Physical Society (APS) for 2024 and 2025. Awardees include Professor Frances Ross; Professor Vladan Vuletić, graduate student Jiliang Hu ’19, PhD ’24; as well as 10 alumni. New APS Fellows include Professor Joseph Checkelsky, Senior Researcher John Chiaverini, Associate Professor Areg Danagoulian, Professor Ruben Juanes, and […]
Brains, fashion, alien life, and more: Highlights from the Cambridge Science Festival
What is it like to give birth on Mars? Can bioengineer TikTok stars win at the video game “Super Smash Brothers” while also answering questions about science? How do sheep, mouse, and human brains compare? These questions and others were asked last month when more than 50,000 visitors from across Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Greater Boston […]
Interactive mouthpiece opens new opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions
When you think about hands-free devices, you might picture Alexa and other voice-activated in-home assistants, Bluetooth earpieces, or asking Siri to make a phone call in your car. You might not imagine using your mouth to communicate with other devices like a computer or a phone remotely. Thinking outside the box, MIT Computer Science and […]
25 Years of MIT Presidential Fellows
On October 15, 2024, the Office of Graduate Education and Chancellor Melissa Nobles hosted the 25th Presidential Fellows Reception. MIT established this prestigious program of Presidential Fellowships to recruit the most outstanding students worldwide to pursue graduate studies at the Institute. Within this year’s cohort, there were 143 fellows representing all five schools at MIT […]
New internal website: GradCentral
In response to administrator feedback, we are making strides to centralize important information for administrators and faculty supporting graduate students. To accomplish that goal, the OGE has built a new site: MIT GradCentral. Content GradCentral will be an administrator’s first stop for many key resources: The site is launching with initial available content, but will […]
Med is dead
Mediterranean Gannet. Now, to anyone outside of the close-knit community of MIT Sloan, that phrase makes almost no sense. Gannets live nowhere near the Mediterranean! At Sloan, a regular conversation among new students goes as follows: What ocean are you? Oh! I’m Caribbean (or one of the 5 other “oceans”) What’s your bird group? Penguin! […]
Misinformation is all around. How can we combat it?
Political misinformation is a hard problem. False statements pervade contemporary politics, sowing division and distrust, and making it harder for society to operate on the basis of fact and law. Even in matters of health and medicine, where people would seem to have a strong self-interest in knowing the facts, problems such as vaccine misinformation […]
Seven with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2024
The National Academy of Medicine recently announced the election of more than 90 members during its annual meeting, including MIT faculty members Matthew Vander Heiden and Fan Wang, along with five MIT alumni. Election to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine […]
General Fellowships Overview Webinar 3
Why are fellowships great? What is the application process? What are the types of resources available? Highlight: Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund Fellowship, Regeneron Prize, and OGE Competitive Fellowships.
The beauty of Boston’s bánh mìs
There’s no sandwich more beautiful than the humble bánh mì. Part of its beauty lies in the sandwich’s symphony of flavors and textures: savory, sour, sweet, spicy, umami, crunchy, soft, and tender, all at the same time. But another part comes from what the sandwich represents. Between the baguette buns hides a rich history and […]
2024 MIT Virtual Graduate Fair
This will be an opportunity for prospective students to meet with representatives from our 46 academic graduate programs, learn about summer research opportunities at MIT or explore life at MIT and the Boston/Cambridge Area. Tap into the Mind + Hand of MIT and find out what makes us uniquely us!
Using spatial learning to transform math and science education
Legend has it that Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head, sparking a bout of scientific thinking that led to the theory of gravity. It’s one of the most famous stories in science, perhaps because it shows the power of simple human experiences to revolutionize our understanding of […]
The TA Chronicles: Being volunteered as tribute
There exists a poignant event in the career of all PhD students that truly tests their mettle… Come to think of it, there are actually many of these – but there’s one in particular that fills me with a little extra anxiety. I’m talking about none other than the dreaded teaching assistant (TA) assignment. Depending […]
Dr Anthony Jack book talk: Class Dismissed
On October 9th, the Office of Graduate Education and the Office of Undergraduate Advising co-hosted best selling author and Boston University professor Dr. Anthony Jack to discuss his newest book, Class Dismissed. In order to accommodate both employees and students’, MIT hosted two separate events. The first event was a professional development opportunity open to […]
MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson share Nobel Prize
MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson PhD ’89, whose work has illuminated the relationship between political systems and economic growth, have been named winners of the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Political scientist James Robinson of the University of Chicago, with whom they have worked closely, also shares the award. […]
My brat summer turned out to be very demure, very mindful
My Instagram DMs witnessed an overwhelming inpour of the ‘Go Kylie Go’ reels from well-meaning friends. I’d bombarded their WhatsApp chats with the horror stories of being unable to add my Forex card to Uber, almost missing my flight, forgetting to pack my toothpaste, and trying to make friends while jet-lagged in a new country. […]
Mixing joy and resolve, event celebrates women in science and addresses persistent inequalities
For two days at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, participants in the Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lectures and Workshops celebrated the success of women in science and shared strategies to persist through, or better yet dissipate, the stiff headwinds women still face in the field. “Everyone is here to celebrate and to […]
MIT Energy and Climate Club mobilizes future leaders to address global climate issues
One of MIT’s missions is helping to solve the world’s greatest problems — with a large focus on one of the most pressing topics facing the world today, climate change. The MIT Energy and Climate Club, (MITEC) formerly known as the MIT Energy Club, has been working since 2004 to inform and educate the entire […]
Cooking made easy
My jaw dropped when I heard: “Can I join you for dinner every night until my quals next Friday? I don’t want to think about anything other than my research presentation, and I know anything you cook will be good.” My friend and I both think going straight from the lab to the dorm after […]
Teen uses pharmacology learned through MIT OpenCourseWare to extract and study medicinal properties of plants
Tomás Orellana, a 17-year-old high school student in Chile, had a vision: to create a kit of medicinal plants for Chilean school infirmaries. But first, he needed to understand the basic principles of pharmacology. That’s when Orellana turned to the internet and stumbled upon a gold mine of free educational resources and courses on the […]
Applying risk and reliability analysis across industries
On Feb. 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it returned to Earth, killing all seven astronauts on board. The tragic incident compelled NASA to amp up their risk safety assessments and protocols. They knew whom to call: Curtis Smith PhD ’02, who is now the KEPCO Professor of the Practice of Nuclear Science […]
Victor Ambros ’75, PhD ’79 and Gary Ruvkun share Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
MIT alumnus Victor Ambros ’75, PhD ’79 and Gary Ruvkun, who did his postdoctoral training at MIT, will share the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced this morning in Stockholm. Ambros, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and Ruvkun, a professor at Harvard […]
MIT Mondays
MIT Mondays is a new series of webinars moderated by Senior Associate Dean Denzil Streete on the journey to graduate education. These sessions will offer different perspectives from current MIT graduate students as they tell their stories of finding their way to MIT. There is no linear path to graduate education! MIT Mondays highlight the […]
On technology in schools, think evolution, not revolution
Back in 1913 Thomas Edison confidently proclaimed, “Books will soon be obsolete in the public schools.” At the time, Edison was advocating for motion pictures as an educational device. “Our school system will be completely changed inside of 10 years,” he added. Edison was not wrong that video recordings could help people learn. On the […]
GradDiversity Buddies
The GradDiversity Buddies Program is designed to help first-year PhD students from diverse backgrounds navigate graduate education at MIT. At its core, this program is a collaborative network that pairs senior and incoming graduate students to build reciprocal communities of support that nurtures academic excellence, personal growth, and professional advancement. Fill out the interest form […]
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