Patricia Rodríguez Sáez, Head of Internationalization and Centers Abroad under the Vice-Rector; Laura Alba-Juez, Vice-Rector for Internationalization and Multilingualism; Alicia Goldstein Raun, MISTI Associate Director, MIT-Spain Managing Director
Five students in the MISTI Spain program are conducting research internships this summer at the UNED Faculty of Sciences in Madrid. Camila Pierce ‘27, Christina Fradella ‘27, and Julia Cherchever ‘27, are working on advanced projects related to soft materials and complex fluids at the Complex Systems Laboratory, while Faith Victoria Ni ‘27 and Enzo Zavaleta '27 are researching new ways to address the degradation of micro- and nanoplastics at the Infrared Spectroscopy Laboratory.
Additionally, the MIT-UNED Seed Fund will launch this fall, paving the way for UNED faculty to launch research projects at MIT. Mariana Rodríguez Hakim, an assistant professor at UNED and alumna of MIT and MISTI-Spain, helped kickstart UNED’s collaboration with MISTI, aided by Laura Alba-Juez, the Vice-Rectorate for Internationalization and Multilingualism. The newly-established seed fund, which will be administered through the Center for International Studies, and student internships demonstrate MIT and UNED’s dedication and commitment to “an exchange of knowledge and research results at the international level.”
For more information, read the recent article (in Spanish) below.
