The fellowships provide five years of funding to doctoral students in applied science, engineering, and mathematics who have “the extraordinary creativity and principled leadership necessary to tackle problems others can’t solve.”
“You’ll continue to inspire and give to others that follow,” Nobles told this year’s graduating class.
The inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist encourages the Class of 2024 to “accept impossible missions” and “lead with imagination” in uncertain times.
“I have never seen a community quite like this one,” Kornbluth told graduates.
As part of his MIT doctoral studies in nuclear science and engineering, Eli Sanchez investigated whether hypersonic missiles threaten global security.
Honing her values and career path through her D-Lab classes, the MIT senior sets her sights on leveling inequalities in global health.
MIT.nano inscribes 340,000 names on a single silicon wafer in latest version of One.MIT.
At MIT and internationally, senior Cindy Xie works to bring people together for the health of humanity and the planet.
Graduate student Nolen Scruggs works with a local tenant association to address housing inequality as part of the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism.
Propelled by MIT mentors and colleagues, two Kavanaugh Fellows will spend a year getting their innovative technologies ready for the market.
The 10 Design Fellows are MIT graduate students working at the intersection of design and multiple disciplines across the Institute.
Christopher Wang, a senior in EECS, shares his favorite study spaces, how he discovered theater at the Institute, and what he'll miss most.
The Fulbright US Student Program funds research, study, and teaching opportunities abroad.
When the senior isn’t using mathematical and computational methods to boost driverless vehicles and fairer voting, she performs with MIT’s many dance groups to keep her on track.
Senior Hanjun Lee planned to pursue chemistry at MIT. A course in genetics changed that.