Terrascope Builds Innovative Collaborations in Puerto Rico and Navajo Nation
This spring semester saw exciting new developments in partnerships the Terrascope first-year learning community has been building with educational institutions in Puerto Rico and the Navajo Nation.
“Story Wall” Takes Shape in the MIT Welcome Center
A new installation made up of individually stained wood panels in an abstraction of the MIT campus is on display in the MIT Welcome Center.
Meet Your OVC Colleagues: Winter 2025
Akunna Rosser Senior Assistant Director for Prehealth AdvisingCareer Advising & Professional Development Paola Rebusco Senior LecturerExperimental Study Group Melissa Martin-Greene Assistant DirectorUROP/Office of Experiential Learning Janet Rankin DirectorTeaching + Learning Lab
Meet Your OVC Colleagues: Summer 2024
Lisa Breen Administrative AssistantMIT Navy ROTC Sadé Abraham Associate Dean – Advising & Student BelongingUndergraduate Advising Center Ari Epstein Associate Director and Senior LecturerTerrascope Erik Pavesic Assistant Director of Career Advising & TrainingCareer Advising & Professional Development
Meet Your OVC Colleagues: Fall 2024
Tom Allen Professor of Military ScienceDepartment of Military Science, Army ROTC Ximena Forero-Irizarry Financial Administrator IIOVC HQ Megumi Wang International Student AdvisorInternational Students Office (ISO) Jessica Bonitatibus Senior Program Administrator, Graduate Student ExperienceOffice of Graduate Education
Meet Our 2024 Davis Projects for Peace Fellow!
MIT junior Victory Yinka-Banjo is the PKG Center’s 2024 Davis Projects for Peace Fellow! Victory is partnering with NaijaCoder Inc. and the University of Lagos’s Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AIRLAB) to support youth, promote sustainable development, and foster lasting peace in Nigeria.
Old Ironsides Battalion Spring Update
As students settle back in to the routine this spring, several Battalion events have been keeping them busy!
OVC Staff Council Is Off and Running!
The inaugural OVC Staff Council is excited to hit the ground running. The Staff Council was an idea that came from the OVC headquarters team to help promote cross-office collaboration and create a strong sense of community within the division. This council is made up of 13 staff members from a variety of offices within OVC who are excited to engage in discussion, collaboration, and implementation.
Enhancing the Student Veteran Experience
Since August of 2023, Student Veteran Success (SVS) has been working with the PGA New England HOPE foundation to put together a free golf clinic for veterans and military members who are students at MIT.
In Praise of Exceptional Teaching: Two ESG Math Lecturers Retiring
Dr. Gabrielle Stoy and Dr. Jerry Orloff, the Experimental Study Group’s (ESG) long-time math lecturers, will retire at the end of this year. Over their two decades at ESG, Gabrielle and Jerry have taught and advised hundreds of ESG first-year students and mentored many undergraduate teaching assistants (TAs), shaping the first-year experience.