This event is conceived with the purpose of creating a conducive environment to identify and support young talents passionate about diverse and crucial fields such as Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. At Bridging Talents and Opportunities, we are passionate about helping young talents reach their full potential. Our mission is to create a platform...

Between 2020 and 2021 a student-led CUA community service steering committee, Engage CUA, was formed. It was born out of efforts related to and following ShutdownSTEM, beginning as a regular meeting to discuss research on important topics around increasing diversity.  The primary goal is to organize and track outreach efforts. In the past year, CUA members...

Emma Rosenfeld attended the NSBP Fall conference and also manned the information booth for Harvard for prospective undergraduate students, providing information about Harvard’s Physics PhD program. Araiza Rodrigo went to do outreach at a conference targeting underrepresented minority students in APS who are part of the National Mentorship Community. Araiza also organized a talk on...

Professor Paola Cappellaro has taken part in the Nuclear Science and Engineering “Winter School” aimed at underrepresented junior undergraduates that are contemplating graduate school. The goal of this newly started program is to increase the diversity in the graduate student population of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at MIT. In addition, as admission chair,...

GENESEO, N.Y. – The 2001 Nobel Laureate in physics, Wolfgang Ketterle, will deliver the 2016 Robert “Duke” Sells lecture in physics Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. in Newton Hall Room 202. Ketterle, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will address “The Coolest Use of Light – How to Make...