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Fall Events at the MIT Libraries

MIT Reads: A Conversation with Davarian L. Baldwin

Join Dr. Davarian L. Baldwin, the author of this semester’s MIT Reads selection In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities, in dialogue with MIT Barton L. …

By Tara Thakurta
Tara Thakurta Graduate Community Fellow
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MIT Scholars Attend International Conference

This fall, six MIT graduate students attended the Constellations – 2024 AHRC International Conference, held from September 16–18 at Robinson College, Cambridge. This prestigious event, supported by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, brought together doctoral students from leading institutions, including …

By Tara Thakurta
Tara Thakurta Graduate Community Fellow
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A successful inaugural year for CAPD Graduate Student Professional Development’s certificate programs

This spring, over 150 doctoral students and postdocs successfully completed CAPD’s new professional development certificate program. Two certificates—one in research mentoring and the other in grant writing—were launched last fall to help PhD students and postdocs advance their growth in …

By Julia Mongo
Julia Mongo Staff Writer and Advisor
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MIT Comm Lab Spotlight: Engineers, Express Yourselves

The MIT School of Engineering Communication Lab, which turned 10 in 2023, helps students translate their work for broader impact.

For a decade, the MIT School of Engineering Communication Lab, which originated in the Department of Biological Engineering and has …

By Tara Thakurta
Tara Thakurta Graduate Community Fellow
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Redefine success, identify challenges, and flip failure this new year!

Life comes with its fair set of challenges. The goal of building resilience is to equip yourself to weather life’s challenges as they arise. Much of that work involves redefining what success and failure mean and finding ways to use …

By Tara Thakurta
Tara Thakurta Graduate Community Fellow
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Featured Profiles

Diana Chien

Alumni, Partner
  • Program Director, School of Engineering Communication Lab
Meet Diana >

Sean Clarke

Alumni, Partner
  • Communication Instructor + Biotech Liaison
Meet Sean >
  • Director of the Writing and Communication Center (WCC)
Meet Elena >
  • Director of Product Management and Strategy / Alum Broadcom
Meet Ravi >
  • Senior Advisor for Communications , MIT Office of the Vice Chancellor
Meet Michael Patrick >
  • Associate Director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT
Meet Ashley >

Featured Resources

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Application materials for PhDs and Postdocs: Examples and how-to guides

These resources are designed for MIT PhDs and postdocs to serve as guides through the process of career document preparation. …

Check out CAPD’s ever expanding playlist of music to get you pumped up whenever you’re in need of a confidence …

CAPD Podcast Playlist: Professional Development & Career Competencies

Check out CAPD’s ever-expanding playlist of podcasts offering insight into professional development & career competencies.

When Science Speaks

When Science Speaks is a pocast series profiling innovative and interesting people working in science and technical fields – from …

PLOS Curated Tools for Scientists

“Ten Simple Rules” provide a quick, concentrated guide for mastering some of the professional challenges research scientists face in their …

Grad Commx

Gradcommx was designed by the OGE to address broadly transferable skills rather than discipline-specific training. It is meant to be …