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MacVicar Day 2021
The Office of the Vice Chancellor and the Registrar’s Office recently announced the 2021 Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellows.
Save the Date for MacVicar Day 2020
The Office of the Vice Chancellor and the Registrar’s Office are pleased to announce this year’s MacVicar Day program.
Response to “I’m voting yes for the Graduate Student Union because MIT continues to fail its student veterans”News Item Title
Ian A. Waitz writes in response to the opinion piece that appeared Feb. 10 in The Tech, “I’m voting yes for the Graduate Student Union because MIT continues to fail…
AY2021 Graduate Student Stipend Levels, Health Insurance Rates, and Additional Support
In discussion with the Provost, Chancellor, and School Deans, we have established the new ranges for the monthly stipends of full-time research and teaching assistants for the 2020-21 academic year…
Celebrate our Graduate Students 2020!
During the week of April 6–10, MIT will celebrate Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week (GPSAW).
New Class of 2023 Newsletter (OFY)
The Office of the First Year recently started a weekly newsletter for the Class of 2023.
Bringing Music, and Making, to Chile
The free, week-long camp immerses teenagers in a maker community, where they learn the physics of sound, basic carpentry and electronics skills, and then design, build, and play their instrument.
Graduate Student Life Grants Program
For this year’s grants, special focus was given to projects which aim to foster positive student-faculty interactions at the group, department, or inter-departmental level.
Advancing our support for graduate students
TL; DR: Making progress on advancing support for students in acute financial distress and helping those with children; Graduate Families Support Working Group report released with key commitments: dedicated staff…
Data Talks Spring Series
Data Talks, offered by the Teaching+Learning Lab, is an MIT-wide workshop series stemming from a cross-functional data/survey team comprised of offices across OVC and the Institute.