An honor that empowers change
Pressman Awards inspire undergraduate engagement in politics and policy, and sometimes a complete pivot in direction.
Pressman Awards inspire undergraduate engagement in politics and policy, and sometimes a complete pivot in direction.
Through MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, students explore research topics relevant to their own interests, the MCSC, and member companies.
MIT senior Ayomikun Ayodeji seeks to expand access to reliable, affordable energy in his home country of Nigeria, and beyond.
Senior Laura Rosado settled on her major while designing a flying car.
Senior Ibuki Iwasaki seeks creative ways to design technology that considers the human user.
Senior David Darrow’s love of math fuels other passions such as mentoring and learning new languages.
Seniors David Darrow and Tara Venkatadri and HST student James Diao will pursue master’s programs at Cambridge University.
MIT EECS student and Mitchell Scholar hopes to play music in Dublin while working on his MS in intelligent systems.
A new course teaches students how to use computational techniques to solve real-world problems, from landing a spacecraft to placing cell phone towers.
First-year students visit nonprofit grocer in Central Square providing low-cost, nutritious food; learn about food resources at MIT.
Senior Stacy Godfreey-Igwe seeks to make marginalized communities more visible in the fight against climate change.
Gift will help establish the Vamasundari Devi Fellowship Fund to provide financial support to graduate students and the SuperUROP program, which provides undergraduates with two-semester research opportunities.
The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in the U.K., at Cambridge and Oxford universities.
New products presented by students at the annual event included a curb-climbing wheelchair attachment and seizure-preventing glasses.
Sihao Huang, William Kuhl, Tingyu Li, Giramnah Peña-Alcántara, Sreya Vangara, and Kelly Wu will pursue graduate studies in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.