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The 21st annual IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge held its first-ever hybrid award ceremony on Sunday, April 24th at the MIT Media Lab. The event celebrated the 2022 IDEAS Finalist Cohort, finalists from past years, and the many other IDEAS community members that make the program possible. The event was dedicated to the PKG Center co-founder,…
This year, we will be holding two events to honor our OVC Infinite Mile Award recipients. We hope you will join us! Hybrid Infinite Mile Awards Ceremony June 13, 3:00-4:00 pm For those wishing to celebrate the award ceremony in-person, it will be held in the new Admissions Welcome Center Auditorium located at 292 Main…
Admissions Stephanie Mac, Administrative Assistant II Bailey Olmstead, Administrative Assistant II Shara Zimmerman, Administrative Assistant II CAPD Mitchell Moise, Employer Relations Coordinator DLab Sorin Grama, Instructor Susan Murcott, Lecturer Eliza Squibb, Instructor Edgerton Justin Schmidt, Instructor Experimental Study Group Stephen Lyons, Visiting Lecturer Office Of Graduate Education Beth Marois, Assistant Dean for Student Support &…
Although we observe the New Year on January 1 in the U.S., many countries around the world celebrate it at different times and in different ways. For example, the Lunar New Year starts February 1 and ends February 15, 2022. In this video produced by the MIT News Office, MIT students from abroad share their…
The Office of the First Year is off to a great start with the Class of 2025 for the academic year, both on a macro and micro scale. In August, we hosted a fully in-person Orientation program. As in past years, the program consists of several parts: First Year Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPS); International Student Orientation;…
Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD) officially launched graduate student professional development services in the spring with the hire of Amanda Cornwall, PhD, filling the newly created title of associate director of graduate student professional development. Amanda’s arrival is part of a new investment in staff and resources that will bring centralized services to the…
Alison Day is the newest addition to the ISO team, joining us as the new assistant director for operations and advising on February 22, 2021. Alison has worked in the field of international education and exchange since 2014, serving most recently as an assistant director/foreign student and scholar advisor in the Office of International Education…
Over spring break, roughly 40 Terrascope students, faculty, staff and alumni mentors travelled to the Navajo Nation. The goal was to learn about issues related to water security by talking with people who are experiencing and addressing these issues themselves. We also wanted to become more deeply familiar with Diné (Navajo) culture, tradition, knowledge and…
MIT invites all regular registered undergraduates and graduate students over 18 years of age to answer the 2019 AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct. The AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Misconduct is a follow-up to MIT’s 2014 Community Attitudes on Sexual Assault. Similar to many of our peers, including Stanford, Harvard…
