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MIT Center for International Studies •

Houck and Ansari, PhD students, further their dissertation research abroad | MIT Center for International Studies

Olivia Wynne Houck and Natasha Ansari are the recipients of the 2024 Jeanne Guillemin Prize awarded by the MIT Center for International Studies.  The Guillemin Prize provides critical funding for female-identifying PhD students pursuing research in international affairs. The annual prize was endowed by its namesake, Jeanne Guillemin, shortly before her passing in 2019. A longtime CIS associate and former Boston College professor, Guillemin dedicated her career as a science and national security...
MIT Sloan •

Is This the New Playbook for Curing Rare Childhood Diseases? | MIT Sloan

“There is no treatment available for your son. We can’t do anything to help him.” When Fernando Goldsztein, SF ’03, heard those words, something inside him snapped.“I refused to accept what the doctors were saying. I transformed my fear into my greatest strength and started fighting.”Goldsztein’s 12-year-old son Frederico was diagnosed with relapsing medulloblastoma, a life-threatening pediatric brain tumor. His life—and career plan—changed in an instant. He had to learn to become a different kind of leader altogether.
Soundings Magazine •

Breaking Barriers in Sports Media | Soundings Magazine

When Rachel Pearson ’08 logged onto Zoom from her computer in Los Angeles, she’d just returned home from working as lead video editor for ESPN at the 2024 NCAA Women’s Final Four in Cleveland, Ohio. Pulling 17-hour shifts in the basement of the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse—home of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers—editing footage as quickly as possible wasn’t glamorous courtside work. Yet the job resonated with every cell of Pearson’s identity as a human, athlete, a member of the media, and a queer woman.
Mendoza College of Business •

Finding the Right Recipe - Notre Dame Business Mendoza College of Business

As an undergraduate student majoring in IT Management, Cam Kormylo (BBA ‘19) spent plenty of time asking for advice in professors’ offices on the third floor of the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. Now, in his first semester as assistant professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations at Mendoza, his office is down the same hallway. Kormylo teaches Auditing AI at 8 a.m., which is painfully early for his students but midday for a dad whose two young kids wake him up before dawn....
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing •

Making the case for less e-waste - MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

As part of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) at the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, students from different parts of MIT came together to write a case study about the environmental and climate justice implications of the electronics hardware life cycle. Although it’s not uncommon for graduate students to co-author case studies, it’s unusual for undergraduates to earn this opportunity — and for their audience to be other undergraduates around the world.
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