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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.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program
If you are a Federal Direct Loan borrower and are employed full time at MIT, you may be able to receive loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)…
New OVC Employees, May-July 2022
Congratulations to all of the new members of the OVC staff!
SFS Builds on a Successful First Year of Financial Education
Within the first few days of her new job in Student Financial Services (SFS) last summer, Erica Aguiar, SFS’s new Associate Director of Financial Education, got right to work meeting…
MIT’s Media Presence: May Snapshot
Millions of people worldwide follow MIT through news articles, videos, and social media. In addition to research, audiences enjoy quirkier content; in May, the #2 post on MIT's Twitter channel…