Graduate, postdoctoral

CincyStitch team members (l-r) Matthew Macchietto of Harvard and Zhicheng Xu, Shiqi Peng, Alan Sage, and Joshua Brooks of MIT share a moment with Alex Rose, the Hines Student Competition jury chair and senior vice president of Continental Development Corporation, at the competition finals in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Grad students win Urban Land Institute challenge

Their winning 2019 Hines Student Competition entry readies an urban space for the future while preserving the past.

April 19, 2019

Dylan Cable prepares the Adaptive Upright Microscope, which will ultimately enable deeper imaging of animal brains.

Dylan Cable wins 2019 Hertz Fellowship

Award funds graduate studies to advance groundbreaking applied science.

April 19, 2019

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics graduate student Eric Hinterman (left) and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science graduate student Eswar Anandapadmanaban are members of the MIT team that took first prize in the U.S. Air Force’s Visionary Q-Prize Competition.

MIT team places first in U.S. Air Force virtual reality competition

Satellite operator's visualization tool could help prevent space collisions.

April 9, 2019

Graduate students Stephanie Lee (left) and Ellen Shakespear presenting at MITdesignX’s 2018 Spring Pitch event.

MET Fund launched to support MITdesignX

Seed fund will support venture-design education and entrepreneurship in the School of Architecture and Planning.

April 9, 2019

Officers of the MIT Postdoctoral Association gather after a successful homecoming event. Bottom (l-r): Man Ho Wong, Chi "David" Cheng, Wei Sun Leong, Rozzeta Dolah, Satish Kumar Iyemperumal, Tanimul Alam. Top (l-r): Mica Smith, Yiman Wu, Yu-Ja Huang, Aaron Persad.

Finding common ground

Inaugural homecoming event aims to build community among MIT postdocs, past and present.

April 1, 2019

The 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang memorializes the 1931 Mukden Incident, which precipitated events that led to the Japanese conquest of Manchuria.

Commerce and coercion

When responding to disputes with foreign powers, China does not speak with one voice, political science doctoral candidate Kacie Miura finds.

March 29, 2019

Clara Sousa-Silva and Benjamin Rackham will be 51 Pegasi b Fellows at MIT within the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

Lighting up exoplanets

The Heising-Simons Foundation selects Clara Sousa-Silva and Benjamin Rackham for 51 Pegasi b Fellowships at MIT.

March 27, 2019

Department of Mathematics graduate students Boya Song (left) and Juncal Arbelaiz Mugica revitalized the student-led MIT Women in Mathematics group in the fall of 2018.

Women in mathematics aim for an equals sign

Female graduate students in the Department of Mathematics unite to encourage community and to extend an invitation to prospective MIT students.

March 25, 2019

“I thought nuclear made the most sense, since it produced energy and cleaned up the atmosphere, so I decided I should contribute to the field somehow,” Miriam Kreher recalls.

Fine-tuning multiphysics problems

Nuclear science and engineering graduate student Miriam Kreher codes to create better models for complex interactions within nuclear reactors.

March 25, 2019

“At its core, the most important city planning questions are: Are we taking the time to observe and listen to the challenges communities are facing? Are we willing to be a bridge and make connections in spaces where we have power to? And how do we create platforms for people’s voices to be heard without being translators?” says Dasjon Jordan, a second-year master’s student in the Departmen...

Locally grown

Graduate student Dasjon Jordan brings neighborhood roots to urban planning.

March 21, 2019

Using machine learning for medical solutions

Master’s student and Marshall Scholar Kyle Swanson uses computer science to help make drug development more efficient.

March 19, 2019

“One.MIT,” a new art installation at MIT.nano, displays a 6-inch silicon wafer depicting an image of MIT’s Great Dome. The image was formed by etching the names of the more than 270,000 people associated with the Institute from 1861 to spring 2018.

“One.MIT” creates a monument — at the smallest scale

MIT.nano etches more than 270,000 names from the MIT community on a 6-inch wafer.

March 18, 2019

The experimental setup used by the researchers to test their magnetic sensor system, using green laser light for confocal microscopy.

Quantum sensing method measures minuscule magnetic fields

MIT researchers find a new way to make nanoscale measurements of fields in more than one dimension.

March 15, 2019

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Research Speed Dating event included a panel discussion with CEE professors on the future of research in infrastructure and environment.

CEE event showcases multidisciplinary opportunities

Ninth annual Research Speed Dating event fosters intradepartmental collaboration and facilitates discussion of future efforts to solve global issues.

March 12, 2019

MIT graduate engineering, business programs earn top rankings from U.S. News for 2020

Graduate engineering program is No. 1 in the nation; MIT Sloan is No. 3.