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Lara Ozkan named 2025 Marshall Scholar

Julia Mongo | Office of Distinguished Fellowships
Published by MIT News on December 16, 2024

Lara Ozkan, an MIT senior from Oradell, New Jersey, has been selected as a 2025 Marshall Scholar and will begin graduate studies in the United Kingdom next fall. …

By Lydia Huth
Lydia Huth Communication and Program Manager
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Summer 2025 Social Impact Internships Now Open!

The PKG Center Social Impact Internships are funded opportunities for MIT undergraduate students to explore your career options, build your skills and engage in work that yields significant community impact. Strengthen your professional network and your resume, while you strengthen …

By Tianna Ransom
Tianna Ransom Assistant Director, Career Exploration
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8 MIT sustainability startups to watch

“The MIT Startup Exchange was created more than eight years ago to support MIT-connected startups as they grow and help solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. Here are eight of the exchange’s sustainability-focused startups that were featured at last …

By Kendel Jester
Kendel Jester Assistant Director, Early Career Engagement
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Job applications, GPAs, and your first year at MIT

You have found a great opportunity. You have your resume set, your cover letter is the best you have ever written, and right as you go to submit your application you see it: Please enter your GPA. What do you …

By Erik Pavesic
Erik Pavesic Assistant Director, Career Advising & Training
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My experience with MIT’s Career Exploration Fellowship: Machine learning with biomedical applications at Ourobionics

Have you ever discovered an intriguing internship that perfectly aligns with your career goals and offers new growth opportunities, but you weren’t sure you could participate due to financial or logistic reasons?

Last year, I found myself in that exact …

By Ariadne Dulchinos
Ariadne Dulchinos Peer Career Advisor
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