Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD) recently launched an exciting platform, called Handshake, to the CareerBridge student career management system. Students rely on CareerBridge to schedule advising appointments, register for events, sign up for on-campus recruiting, research employers, and apply to opportunities. Handshake utilizes a responsive user interface and advanced machine learning to provide users…
MIT’s inaugural Graduate Student Professional Development Week took place July 22-25, with over 150 graduate student participants. The week of programming introduced student professional development to the Institute and brought over 15 offices together to engage with graduate students throughout the week. The program kicked off with the Inside Scoop, an ice-cream social open house…
The OVC community gathered on June 10 to celebrate the many contributions of staff selected as this year’s recipients of the Infinite Mile Awards. Individuals and teams from across the organization were recognized for excellence in several categories, including communication and collaboration, community, diversity and inclusion, everyday leadership, innovation and creativity, and serving the client.…
Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD) conducted two PhD & Postdoc Career Planning groups this summer: one in June and one in July, with 38 and 27 attendees respectively. More than 80 pre-registered for the June group, so Jake Livengood, senior assistant director of graduate student career services, and Bob Dolan, assistant director for postdoctoral…
This month, the Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL) is kicking off two workshop series that are open to anyone in the MIT community. “MITeaches: Fostering Inclusion” is a series of workshops and activities that supports MIT faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants in teaching for equity and academic belonging. On Wednesday, August 28, TLL and the…
New Employees, May 21-July 30, 2019 Admissions Kellen Manning —Assistant Director, Communications Ameer Phillips — Admissions Counselor, Diversity Outreach Yi Tso — Director, Educational Council Concourse Ryan Lang — Lecturer, D-Lab Jacob Rubel — MIT Non-Student Worker Office of Graduate Education Ashley Carpenter — UCEM Program Coordinator Office of Minority Education Sarah Chrystler — Program…
UROP, the Institute’s flagship experiential learning program, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary throughout the 2019-20 academic year. Created by the late Margaret MacVicar, the program launched in the fall of 1969 with 25 students; today more than 90% of undergraduates participate in faculty-mentored research across all disciplines. The golden anniversary will be highlighted by…
