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Emma Gibson: Optimizing health care logistics in Africa
The PhD student seeks to improve patient care by helping facilities use their limited resources more effectively.
Community abounds as Sidney-Pacific Residence Hall celebrates 20 years
The largest graduate residence on MIT’s campus builds communities with its “helper culture.”
Fabric + form = a mask that uniquely fits your face
Department of Architecture doctoral candidate Lavender Tessmer has advanced the process to produce textiles that can be individually customized.
MIT welcomes eight MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2022-23
Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars will enhance and enrich the MIT community through engagement with students and faculty.
Five with MIT ties win 2022 Hertz Foundation Fellowships
Award provides five years of funding and access to a community of innovative scholars and leaders in science and technology.
OFY Launches Orientation Leader Instagram Takeovers
Our Orientation Leader staff has made a schedule of when our OLs can go on the OFY Instagram page (@mitfirstyear), take students through a week in their lives, share their…
Ancient African smelting technique sparks anew at MIT
Building and working a clay-and-grass furnace, teachers and students learn more than how to turn ore into metal.
Welcoming a New Cohort of Associate Advisors
The Office of the First Year (OFY) welcomed 150 associate advisors to their first orientation on June 12.
SFS Returns to Campus!
After so many long months of zoom meetings, the Staff Connections Committee in SFS is welcoming back summer and the chance to be outside with colleagues.
2021-22 UROP Awards
The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) selected two research supervisors as this year’s recipients of the Outstanding UROP Mentor Awards, and six UROP students for Outstanding UROP Student Awards.