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Graduate, postdoctoral
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School of Engineering awards for 2017
Awards given to outstanding faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students.
June 21, 2017 -
Endowing cells with new abilities
PhD student Fahim Farzadfard engineers cells to record “memories” of past events.
June 20, 2017 -
MIT’s first MicroMasters learners earn credentials
More than 1,100 learners finish online course series; 622 pass final exam that offers opportunity to apply for hybrid master’s.
June 20, 2017 -
After MIT, new officers will serve their country
Following their MIT studies, graduates in MIT’s Reserve Officer Training Corps set off on new challenges in the U.S. military.
June 16, 2017 -
Becky Romatoski: Reducing risk in next-generation reactors
Nuclear science and engineering graduate student Becky Romatoski analyzes range of uncertainties in MIT’s salt-cooled nuclear reactor project.
June 9, 2017 -
Lisa Su urges doctoral graduates to “dream big” and “change the world”
At hooding ceremony, Advanced Micro Devices CEO says MIT “taught me how to think.”
June 8, 2017 -
MIT Technology and Policy Program’s Best Thesis for 2017 maps out a clean energy future for India
Award-winning paper by Arun Singh shows how one of the world’s fastest-growing economies can expand its energy consumption while limiting emissions.
June 7, 2017 -
Dora Aldama: Drawn to multidimensional problems
MIT graduate student connects the business, engineering, and human elements of producing aerospace technology.
June 1, 2017 -
Danielle Olson: Building empathy through computer science and art
CSAIL PhD student creates immersive media to help users understand each other’s backgrounds and feelings.
May 30, 2017 -
Sasha Soane wins International Vacuum Electronics Conference best student paper award
PhD candidate explores the intersection of theory and engineering.
May 17, 2017 -
Creative Arts Competition rewards arts entrepreneurship at MIT
Roots Studio wins top prize for the most promising arts-focused startup at the Institute.
May 16, 2017 -
Q&A: When is giving to charity the wrong thing to do?
MBA student and film producer Mark Weber describes how the foreign aid and charity industries may be holding developing countries down.
May 15, 2017 -
MIT students and postdocs advocate for science and engineering funding on Capitol Hill
Members of MIT's Science Policy Initiative meet with members of Congress on Science-Engineering-Technology Congressional Visits Day.
May 11, 2017 -
An ear for political language
Doctoral student Tom O’Grady maps the rise of anti-welfare rhetoric in decades of speeches in the UK Parliament.
May 8, 2017 -
Genuine enthusiasm for AI
Machine learning is one of the hottest subjects on campus.
April 27, 2017 -
Barnhart appoints Waitz vice chancellor for overseeing offices of graduate, undergraduate education
Freeman will pilot first-year curriculum experiments; Staton to work closely with Waitz on graduate education.
April 27, 2017 -
From fieldwork to the big screen
Fourth annual CEE Video Competition highlights global research and opportunities.
April 24, 2017 -
Collegiate inventors awarded 2017 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Students recognized for inventive solutions to challenges in health care, transportation, food and agriculture, and consumer devices.
April 19, 2017 -
Grounded in geology
PhD student Renato Lima de Oliveira examines how a country's natural resources affect its politics and policies.
April 6, 2017 -
Julien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment
Master's candidate explores ways to cool high-temperature superconductors used in fusion research.
March 27, 2017