Women in STEM

Katie Date from MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics announces the AWE Scholarship for women.

A new full-tuition graduate scholarship for women in supply chain management

Collaboration between AWESOME and the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics awards full tuition for the first year of fellowship.

May 30, 2018

Colombian farmers demonstrate the coffee-growing process to D-Lab students.

J-WEL names spring 2018 grant recipients

Education Innovation Grant program for pK-12 and higher education awards $400,000 to MIT faculty to support education innovation both at MIT and globally.

May 7, 2018

Left to right: Jay Mahat, Nicholas Struntz, Benjamin Mead, and Sarvesh Varma are the first recipients of the MIT-GSK Gertrude B. Elion Research Fellowship Program for Drug Discovery and Disease.

Inaugural class of MIT-GSK Gertrude B. Elion Research Fellows selected

New fellowship program honoring trailblazing Nobel laureate awards four MIT postdocs focused on drug discovery and development.

April 17, 2018

Graduate student Mara Freilich shows MIT Museum Girls Day attendees how plastics and debris become trapped in a gyre.

This is what a scientist looks like

Researchers celebrate women in environmental sciences and engineering at the MIT Museum’s Girls Day.

April 3, 2018

MIT grad student Elizabeth Bieler with her Dalmatian Hercules, who she plans to train as a therapy dog

Incorporating humanity into a systems mindset

Grad student and Air National Guard officer Elizabeth Bieler combines systems design and management studies with engineering and volunteer projects.

March 23, 2018

Students get hands-on experience at the Broad Institute during a six-week enrichment program run by the MIT Office of Engineering Outreach Programs.

Future engineers build confidence and community

Empowering young scientists and engineers is personal for Eboney Hearn ’01, executive director of the MIT Office of Engineering Outreach Programs.

March 22, 2018

The MIT Women's unConference, held March 9-10, was sold out, with nearly 350 registered from 29 states and six countries.

Alumnae unite at MIT Women's unConference

Gathering brings alumni to campus to celebrate women and create connections to further societal changes.

March 19, 2018

Anne Collin (left), a PhD student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, talks with Sruthi Davuluri, a Technology and Policy Program Master’s student, during the Women in Data Science conference student poster session.

Second annual Women in Data Science conference showcases research, explores challenges

Co-hosted by MIT's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, WiDS Cambridge brings together students, academic leaders, and industry partners.

March 19, 2018

MIT senior Isabella Pecorari embarked on a path to medicine at a young age, beginning with a grade-school fascination with biology.

Lending mind, hand, and heart

Senior Isabella Pecorari is building supportive communities at MIT and beyond.

March 16, 2018

Jani Adcock and Drew Bent named Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Seniors will join class of 49 scholars in new fellowship program.

March 1, 2018

Senior Anjali Misra, who is majoring in brain and cognitive sciences and minoring in music, is originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Making preventive medicine more accessible

MIT senior Anjali Misra is drawn to health care problems that don’t have easy answers.

January 17, 2018

MIT Vice President for Research Maria Zuber and former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems emeritus at MIT, engaged in a fireside chat at the C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium, discussing technology, policy, and the importance of women's leadership in STEM fields.

A bipartisan message of clean energy progress

In the face of global challenges, leading women in energy and climate convene at the C3E 2017 Clean Energy Symposium.

December 7, 2017

Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook and founder of Leanin.org.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to speak at MIT’s 2018 Commencement

Executive, author, and feminist will address the Class of 2018 on June 8.

December 7, 2017

Cadence Payne (left) and Alexa Aguilar credit AeroAstro fellowships with allowing them to follow their research interests without constant worry of funding their studies.

AeroAstro announces graduate fellowships for women and other underrepresented students

November 29, 2017

MIT President L. Rafael Reif welcomes family, colleagues, friends, former students, and other associates of the late MIT Institute Professor Mildred “Millie” Dresselhaus to a symposium celebrating her life and career.

Celebrating Millie

Symposium commemorates the life and career of pioneering professor and beloved mentor Mildred Dresselhaus.