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May 12 From Ocean to Orbit: How Deep-Sea and Space Technologies Advance Marine Discoveries 12:00pm - 1:30pm Location Building E40 - 496
May 16 The Origins of State Strength and Economic Development: Insights from Historical Political Economy 9:00am - 5:00am Location Building 36 - 428
May 21 MIT-Imperial Seed Fund 10th Anniversary Celebration: A Decade of Transatlantic Collaboration in Science & Technology 12:00pm - 1:00pm Location - null
Affiliates and Visitors Sam Weiss Evans Senior Policy Advisor for the US National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB)
Faculty and Researchers Phil Budden Faculty Director, MIT-UK Program Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Faculty and Researchers Elizabeth Wood Faculty Co-Director, MIT-Eurasia Program MIT-Ukraine Program Ford International Professor of History
Anna Hardman Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Economics, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Economics, Tufts University
Faculty and Researchers Kathleen Thelen Faculty Director, MIT-Scandinavia Program, MIT-Germany Program, MIT-Switzerland Program Ford International Professor of Political Science
Italy interns researching physics Universita di Pisa Learn about Lily's, Medha's and David's research on gravitational waves, stars and planets at the Universita' di Pisa in the summer of 2024!
Dilin's story Nuclear Science and Engineering '27 Dilin Meloni interned at the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France, over the summer of 2024. For his career, this was exactly the project and field that he wanted to break into and he felt that it would be hugely impactful moving forward.
Roger's story Ph.D Candidate, Materials Science & Engineering '19 Rodger interned for a semester in the Lubrication Department at Shell (Shanghai) Technology Ltd. and taught for a summer in three different regions of China with the MIT-China Educational Technology Initiative (CETI).
Fiona's story Electrical Engineering and Computer Science '23 Fiona worked on developing capabilities for autonomous docking.
Jocelyn's story Management '25 Jocelyn Zhu's first in-person industry internship at Native Design Ltd in London, UK made her feel more capable of living abroad. It also helped her consider a career in a tech or developer role instead of a role in management.