New Faculty Job Search Series receives 800+ registrations to date (and there’s still time to register!)

Graduate students and postdocs are encouraged to participate in as many programs as they would like, and the response has been overwhelming. We’ve received over 800 registrations so far from graduate students, postdocs, and alumni, and we have had more than 350 participants to date!

By Alexis Boyer
Alexis Boyer Alexis Boyer Assistant Director, Graduate Student Career Services
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Capital One – Summer Workshops

Capital One is excited to host a variety of virtual events across the summer, aimed at supporting you as you continue to navigate the recruiting process. Please see below for the event details and registration information. Please know that while …

By Francis Borrego
Francis Borrego Associate Director, Employer Relations 
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How to prepare a scientific poster

By ELISABETH PAIN, Science Careers

Poster presentations at scientific conferences can provide early-career researchers with valuable opportunities to practice their communication skills, receive feedback on their research, and expand their network.

Science Careers asked researchers in a range of disciplines and career …

By Simona Rosu
Simona Rosu Senior Assistant Director, Postdoctoral Career and Professional Development
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How Title IX transformed colleges, universities over past 50 years

By Alvin Powell, The Harvard Gazette; Published June 22, 2022

A half century after its enactment, Title IX, the federal law that bars discrimination against women in education, has touched many corners of campus, forcing shifts in intercollegiate sports, hiring, …

By Simona Rosu
Simona Rosu Senior Assistant Director, Postdoctoral Career and Professional Development
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Medical Ethics and your Med/Health Professions School Application

When applying to health professions school, your ability to wrestle with complex ethical situations is an important predictor of how well you’ll be able to handle such situations as a practitioner.

Medical schools and other health professions schools assess this …

By Ariel Ackermann
Ariel Ackermann
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Hallucinating to better text translation

A machine-learning method imagines what a sentence visually looks like, to situate and ground its semantics in the real world, improving translation, like humans can. Read more on MIT News.

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Fourteen from MIT awarded 2022 Fulbright Fellowships

Julia Mongo | Office of Distinguished Fellowships
Published by MIT News on May 19, 2022

This article was updated on July 22 to reflect the addition of alternate winners and their decisions.

Fourteen MIT undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have been awarded Fulbright …

By Julia Mongo
Julia Mongo Staff Writer and Advisor
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Six from MIT Named 2022 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Julia Mongo | Office of Distinguished Fellowships
Published by MIT News on May 11, 2022

MIT seniors Desmond Edwards, Michelle Lee, and Syamantak Payra; graduate students Jessica Karaguesian and Tomás Guarna; and Pranav Lalgudi ’21 have been honored by this year’s Knight-Hennessy Scholars program. …

By Julia Mongo
Julia Mongo Staff Writer and Advisor
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Postdoc Story: Máté Bezdek

Department, Lab or Center: Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Prof. Tim Swager

Number of years at MIT: 2

What is the focus of your research?

I work on making molecules and materials that have applications as sensors for environmental health …

By Ashley Ann Thomas
Ashley Ann Thomas Social Media Marketing Manager
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No one-size-fits-all approach for mentorship

Daniel Korsun | Office of Graduate Education | May 3, 2022

Committed to Caring honoree Jeff Grossman strives to provide each of his students with personalized advising.

Although some of his research focuses on nanomaterials, MIT Professor Jeff Grossman makes sure that his …

By Simona Rosu
Simona Rosu Senior Assistant Director, Postdoctoral Career and Professional Development
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