Ten from MIT, including 3 HST students, awarded 2020 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Left–right) Top row: Pelkins Ajanoh, Aurel Nagy, Mohamed Ismail. Middle row: Pooja Reddy, Connie Liu. Bottom row: Jason Wang, Riana Shah, Anthony Tabet, Jin Park, Sanath Devalpurkar.

Portraits: Christopher Smith, courtesy of The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships

Ten from MIT, including three HST students, awarded 2020 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Ten MIT students and alumni, including three HST students, are among the 30 recipients of this year’s Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.

HST and NTP students, Martinos researchers, producing PPE for front line workers as part of the MasksOn project.

HST and NTP students, Martinos researchers, producing PPE for front line workers as part of the MasksOn project.   Photo credit: MasksOn

MasksOn: Producing PPE for front line workers

A team of volunteers, including HST students, are participating in the MasksOn, which is a rapidly expanding effort to address the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) in hospitals and other healthcare settings.

GradSAGE Leadership Sub-Committee members

GradSAGE Leadership Sub-Committee members (left to right): Vamsi Mangena, Elise Wilcox, Benjamin Lienhard, Lucio Milanese, Laureen Meroueh, and Clinton Wang

Photo: Lillie Paquette/School of Engineering

A new way to prepare graduate students to lead in tech

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.

COVID-19 curriculum

Graphic by Blake Oberfeld

Students take action to respond to the challenge of Covid-19

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.  

Nicolas Meirhaeghe

Nicolas Meirhaeghe, an HST MEMP student, was recently awarded an engineering fellowship from MathWorks.

Accelerating the pace of engineering

Nicolas Meirhaeghe, a PhD student in the HST MEMP program, specializing in Bioastronautics, was recently awarded an engineering fellowship from MathWorks.