The International Students Office (ISO) collaborated with multiple cultural student groups to bring the MIT community a new IAP event on January 30: Table Etiquette Around the World. MIT Video Productions also filmed this event, where visitors were invited to pick up a “passport” and “travel” to each country (table) to learn about the proper etiquette for…
Editor’s Note: Biology PhD student Sarah Bricault wrote the following account the 2018 Momentum competition, the culmination of an interdisciplinary design class offered during IAP. This year, through a special partnership with Microsoft, 35 undergraduate Momentum students experimented with mixed reality to improve, enhance, and discover novel ways to deliver educational content. Marc Graham PhD…
During IAP, the MIT Army ROTC program contributed to the campus community by doing what we know best: leadership development. In late January, MIT Army ROTC faculty teamed up with MIT Sloan Business School’s Veteran Association to facilitate the Leadership Reaction Course (LRC), which is the culminating exercise for a three-day course called Leadership Lessons…
Careers are ill-defined, “wicked” problems*. To help students and postdocs navigate career paths, an MIT collaboration is contributing an innovative approach. Designing Your Life (DYL) is a career exploration methodology pioneered by Stanford design faculty, recently publicized in the best-selling book by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. In June, an interdisciplinary team from MIT collaborated with 14 other institutions…
The Assistive Technology Information Center (ATIC) and Accessibility/Usability Team held two events over IAP for the MIT community. On January 24, we presented a talk titled “Web Accessibility: Encouraging Digital Diversity.” Katherine Wahl and Kathy Cahill spoke about the importance of making websites as accessible as possible to users with disabilities, and how to accomplish…
In December, the Prehealth Advising team of Global Education & Career Development (GECD) hosted an event led by LGBTQ Services called “Transgender at MIT: A Workshop for Staff, Administrators, and Faculty.” Abigail Francis and Julio Oyola, the assistant dean and assistant director of LGBTQ Services respectively, helped participants gain insight into trans issues and strategies…
Graduate student Kevin Chan ’17 (former MIT Motorsports electrical lead as an undergrad) and his teammates traveled to Europe over IAP to meet with Formula SAE teams from five different universities. Kevin saw some of the best student-built formula cars in the world. He also came back with a new appreciation for the Edgerton Center…
GECD has added to its website a new learning resource for students: a suite of short educational videos on a range of topics. The videos are a pilot for a larger initiative, dubbed GECDx, to develop engaging online learning content that students can access anywhere, anytime. Each main team of GECD created a video. Career…
On February 8, GECD’s Freshmen/Alumni Summer Internship Program (F/ASIP) marked its 20-year milestone with a gathering of alumni, current F/ASIP students, faculty, and staff to celebrate the impact of the program and hear from program alumni. Founded in 1997, F/ASIP is a graded, credit-bearing seminar designed to provide career development and internship searching support, and…
