Faces of MIT: Abisola Okuk
The senior staff accountant, who discovered a passion for finance while at MIT, says Boston reminds her of the Nigerian city where she grew up — minus the weather.
The senior staff accountant, who discovered a passion for finance while at MIT, says Boston reminds her of the Nigerian city where she grew up — minus the weather.
The master’s student and co-founder of the Sunrise Movement works toward embedding climate into every level of government.
PhD student Constantine Tzouanas investigates how interactions between individual cells help determine whether pathogens will defeat their hosts — or vice versa.
Three graduate students forged a path to the same Picower Institute lab through participating in the MIT Summer Research Program in Biology and Neuroscience.
For MIT CSHub postdoc Miaomiao Zhang, communicating effectively is perhaps the most important part of research.
MIT Sloan Professor Andy Sun works to improve the electricity grid so it can better use renewable energy.
Assistant Professor Cathy Wu is addressing traffic control problems by leveraging deep reinforcement learning.
Cambridge native and Copytech staff member Scott Perrigo says MIT’s supportive community has kept him at the job for 30 years.
MIT PhD student Kathrin Kajderowicz is studying how hibernation-like states could pave the way for new hypothermic therapies.
Biologist Nicole De Nisco ’07, PhD ’13 draws on her love of problem-solving and interdisciplinary skills honed as a student at MIT.
Annabel Flores ’99, MBA ’03, SM ’03, a Raytheon executive, is an example of what happens when business and personal goals meet to reach people — not just the bottom line.
PhD candidate Lisa Ho ’17 studies barriers that limit women’s participation in the labor force.
Ultrasound research specialist and 2023 MIT Excellence Award winner Nicole Henning adapts ultrasound technology for more sensitive, less invasive imaging for disease modeling.
PhD student Nick Caros develops tools to help transit agencies serve the public in an era of remote work.
Mathias Kolle’s color-changing materials take inspiration from butterflies and mollusks.