An advisory group comprised of MIT graduate students, including two HST MEMP PhD students, has led to a new graduate certificate offered through the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program will launch this fall.
A team of students from Harvard Medical School, including a number of HST MD and MD-PhD students, responded quickly to organize grassroots efforts against the Covid-19 pandemic. They identified two main opportunities for impact: activism and education.
Two recent articles, in Science magazine and in The Boston Globe, describe the grass-roots effort in the Greater Boston area to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
HST students traveled to South Africa as part of the IAP course, HST.434: Evolution of an Epidemic, doing field work on HIV-focused biomedical and clinical research within the country's most affected communities.
Nicolas Meirhaeghe, a PhD student in the HST MEMP program, specializing in Bioastronautics, was recently awarded an engineering fellowship from MathWorks.
