Mechanical engineering students in MIT D-Lab are working with collaborators in Uganda on a solution for the health hazards associated with wood-burning stoves.
The OVC Wellness Committee has been busy this fall with two staff events. In early November, the committee sponsored its second office-to-office social, with members of OVC HQ visiting the ROTC team. Interested in hosting your own event? Get in touch with Mary Markel Murphy. As part of their Wellness Cafe gatherings, the committee hosted…
MIT hosts Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Detachment 365, the “Doolittle Raiders.” The Detachment is named after General Jimmy Doolittle, an MIT alumnus who earned his Master of Science and Doctor of Aeronautical Engineering degrees in June of 1925. Doolittle also planned and led the daring bombing raid over Tokyo in 1942, with…
Admissions Lawson Kosulic Admissions Counselor Xiao Xie Data Support Assistant Danielle Taitt Assistant Director, Multicultural Recruitment Timothy Hickey-LeClair Associate Director of Admissions for Recruitment Career Advising & Professional Development Francis Borrego Assistant Director, Employer Relations David Kovacs Assistant Director, Career Exploration Events & Fairs D-Lab Clara Etchegaray Non-MIT Student Worker Vladimir Mateo Proano Proano…
Last spring, the faculty voted to move MIT’s Commencement to late May in most years. The Registrar’s Office has published a new webpage which outlines the ways that the 2019-20 Academic Calendar differs from last year. Everyone should note changes to key dates — spring Registration Day, the first and last day of classes, the…
On October 9, Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz and the Office of Graduate Education (OGE) welcomed the 2019 cohort of Presidential Fellows to campus with the annual Presidential Fellowship Reception. MIT established this prestigious program in 1999 through philanthropic support in order to recruit the most outstanding students worldwide to pursue graduate studies at the Institute.…
This fall, the Office of Graduate Education (OGE) partnered with Associate Provost Tim Jamison to pilot a Faculty Peer Mentorship Program (FPMP) for new MIT faculty. Closely aligned with the OVC focus on advising and mentoring, the FPMP provides a bridge for incoming untenured faculty to gain wisdom and perspective from more senior faculty who…
The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program’s 50th anniversary was the focus of several events during MIT Family Weekend on Saturday, October 26. To kick things off, Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz introduced a morning panel in Kresge Auditorium facilitated by Kate Trimble, senior associate dean and director of the Office of Experiential Learning. Three outstanding UROP students…
Fifty years ago, in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a new legacy was born at MIT: Project Interphase. On October 11-12, 2019, alumni, current students, faculty, staff, administrators, friends and family gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the program now known to all as Interphase EDGE (Empowering Discovery |…
