Mark your calendars! Join us on Thursday, April 24 at 4pm in room 6-120 for the third seminar in the Colloquium Series: Research on the Mind featuring keynote speaker Luana Marques, PhD, who will be presenting “Bold Move: How to Thrive Through Uncertainty”. Dr. Marques is a global speaker, author, scientist, and innovator, currently an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. She’s the former President of the Anxiety & Depression Association of America and the Founder & Director of Community Psychiatry PRIDE, a premier research lab at Massachusetts General Hospital. Check out one of her talks: Here. To learn more about Dr. Marques, visit: https://drluana.com/.

This event is open to everyone, and we encourage all to attend! Light refreshments will be served before the event (~3:40pm).

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Colloquium Series: Research on the Mind

For Researchers Interested in Commercializing their New Technology  

Explore taking your new technology to the marketplace Get entrepreneurial training, support to identify customers Learn how to apply for $50,000 from the NSFIncrease your chances of receiving an SBIR/STTR awardClick here for more details

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MIT I-Corps: For Researchers Considering a Technology-based Startup

New England I-Corps: For Researchers Considering a Technology-based Startup

The Kevin Lynch Award was established to honor the memory of Kevin Lynch, an MIT alumnus, urban designer, author and member of the faculty of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning for thirty years. Through his practice, research and writing, Lynch encouraged planning and design professionals and students to adopt approaches to planning that are sensitive to the importance of place as well as the importance of people’s experience of place and to the importance of balancing physical interventions with consideration for the natural environment. As someone who accepted the reality of climate change early on, Lynch understood the delicate relationship between humans and their environment, and he worked to develop methods of practice to better integrate individuals’ perceptions into professional recommendations and theories to better explain the complex relationships among people and the built environment. Since its establishment in 1988, the MIT department of urban studies and planning has granted Kevin Lynch Awards to individuals or organizations whose work embodies and advances Kevin Lynch’s research, as developed in his seminal works, Image of the City (1960), What Time is this Place? (1972), Good City Form (1981) and Site Planning (1984). Nominees have been selected for their plans, books, research, designed projects, media productions, public processes, or similar contributions to merit the award. 

 

This year's awardee will be Kofi Boone, FASLA. Kofi Boone is a Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor and University Faculty Scholar at NC State University. Kofi is a Detroit native and a graduate of the University of Michigan. His work is in the overlap between landscape architecture and environmental justice with specializations in democratic design and interpreting cultural landscapes. He is the founder of the Just Communities Lab, Immediate Past President of the Landscape Architecture Foundation, and serves on the boards of Black Landscape Architects Network and the Land Loss Prevention Project.

 

This year’s Lynch Award nominations and deliberations were done in collaboration between the City Design and Development faculty at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the Urbanism faculty at the Department of Architecture at MIT.

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Kevin Lynch Award and Lecture

Shaping the Commercial Space Frontier - Investment, Innovation, and Policy for a New Era of Space

In our 10th annual New Space Age Conference, we delve into the dynamic landscape of the commercial space industry, focusing on key areas such as investment opportunities, groundbreaking innovations, and evolving policies. Our speakers and panelists will explore how strategic investments are driving growth, how the latest technological advancements are pushing the boundaries of space exploration, and how policy frameworks are critical in supporting sustainable development in this burgeoning sector. This event aims to foster collaboration among students, academics, and industry leaders to chart a course for a new era of space commercialization.

 

This year's conference will host 2 keynote speakers and 5 panels. The 5 panels will be focused on:

Space for Sustainability (Moderator: TBD)Space Funding: The Role of Government vs the Private Sector (Moderated by Matt Weinzierl, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program and the Harvard Business School)Beyond the ISS: The Rise of Commercial LEO Stations (Moderated by Jeffrey Hoffman, MIT Professor, Director of Human Systems Lab, and Director of Massachusetts Space Grant)Space Policy & Data Sovereignty (Moderated by Jeff Faust, Veteran Space Journalist at SpaceNews) Building a Sustainable Cislunar Economy and the Road to Mars (Moderated by Oli de Weck, Associate Department Head of MIT AeroAstro and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets) 

Visit our New Space Age website for more information.​

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MIT Sloan New Space Age Conference

We are recruiting undergraduate students to present posters about their BE-related research projects in our symposium for a 60-minute time slot. As a participant, you will learn how to design and pitch your poster from the BE Communication Lab, and have your poster printed for free by BE-IT. 

You’ll have the opportunity to discuss your work with the fabulous folks who make up our department while enjoying free food and drinks (not to mention, symposium presentations always strengthen a CV).  Oh, and those who present the best posters will be awarded prizes!  What’s not to love?  

If you are interested, talk to your research advisor, and sign up here.

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 BE Undergraduate Research Symposium

Featuring Professors Richard Binzel and Sara Seager from the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. 

 

Join us Friday night during Massachusetts Space Week to explore the exciting science happening in the search for life elsewhere in our solar system—and beyond—with our panel of experts as your guide:

Richard P. Binzel (MIT EAPS)Sara Seager (MIT EAPS)Bill Diamond (SETI Institute)Gabriela Radulescu (Smithsonian Air & Space Museum) 

Find us live at the MIT Welcome Center in Kendall Square.

Register now! Tickets are FREE

 

What is Massachusetts Space Week, organized by the Space Consortium?

Massachusetts Space Week is an annual, week-long celebration that seeks to bridge the gap between academia and the broader community and to foster a shared enthusiasm for space science, through engaging events such as a Space Film Festival, a Space Career Fair, and more than 80 space events statewide.

 

Launched in 2017, The Space Consortium is an MA-based 501(c)(3) non-profit led by academics and researchers working in space-related fields which organizes a series of space education & outreach initiatives, including Massachusetts Space Week and The Space Consortium (SC) Space Days, to help democratize space knowledge and connect MA-based space experts and enthusiasts with each other and with the public. Supported by the Massachusetts Space Grant, Massachusetts Space Week and The SC Space Days stand as testaments to grassroots collaboration & community effort among space experts across the state, aiming to make space science accessible to all.

 

Questions about this event?  contact@spaceconsortium.org

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The Search for Life in the Universe — Massachusetts Space Week Panel Event

Speaker/ Moderator: Manish Bharadwaj, Ph.D.

Manish directs Keller Center's Design for Innovation program for faculty in the humanities and social sciences. He was previously the James Wei Visiting Professor at Keller, where he taught idealism in entrepreneurship. Manish is the CEO and co-founder of Innovators In Health, which is devoted to delivering world-class healthcare to the rural poor in India. Manish is also a Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. Manish believes that a venture to make the world more just is fundamentally a moral, not technical, undertaking. It requires cultivating a moral imagination, an ability to imagine why people do right or wrong, the root of empathy, itself the root of all enduring change. He believes that accompaniment, to stand with the marginalized, literally and figuratively, is a moral imperative, and in and of itself a powerful means of change.

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Student Roundtable: Entrepreneurship for the Idealist

Chemistry Student Seminar (CSS) is a student-organized seminar series that host graduate students and postdocs to share their research in a friendly and informal environment. Free donuts and coffee are provided.

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Chemistry Student Seminar (CSS) - Angela Lee (Schlau-Cohen)

MIT Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Nidhi Seethapathi will present a seminar to the Quest and CBMM communities on May 6th. Her lab works to build predictive models to help understand human movement using a combination of theory, computational modeling, and experiments.

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Quest | CBMM Seminar Series: Prof. Nidhi Seethapathi

Join for an evening of connection and creativity with MIT Alumna Jen Gouldstone, a Course 6 alum and local business owner at Craft Loft, a women and minority owned business that features local artisans, plants, and a walk-in DIY craft space. This program offers the chance to learn about Jen’s creative career journey, showcasing non-linear career paths and inspiring you to think expansively about your own future. At this event, you’ll also have a chance to build connections with others while unwinding and de-stressing through a fun crafting activity! 

Gong Ke (Jen) Gouldstone is a business owner and investor with broad experiences in consumer goods and enterprise software.  Ms. Gouldstone started in the tech industry, leading efforts at Google, TripAdvisor and several VC-backed startups.  In 2019, Ms. Gouldstone launched a services business to provide employee engagement and wellness to corporate clients.  Ms. Gouldstone is also the founder of a new experiential retail brand, Craft Loft, with its flagship store located in Cambridge, MA.

Ms. Gouldstone supports the entrepreneurial community as an angel investor and consultant for early stage businesses.  Ms. Gouldstone is an alumna of Harvard Business School (MBA ‘15) and MIT (EECS BS ‘99, MEng ‘00).  She enjoys life with her husband and their three energetic boys.

This CAPD event is open to undergraduate, graduate students, and postdocs. Space is limited to 30 attendees. Registration required in Handshake.

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Crafting in Community with MIT Alum Jen Gouldstone

Join us for a panel discussion in celebration of the opening of Monsters of the Deep, followed by an opportunity to explore the exhibition (opening April 18). 

How do you create a picture of something you've heard about but never seen? This is a problem that has bedeviled scientists for centuries. Five hundred years ago, people sought to understand the mysterious, half-seen creatures that lurked beneath the ocean's surface. Today, researchers hunt for ways to visualize black holes and the ocean floor. 

In search of answers to this question, join astrophysicist Erin Kara, sonar pioneer Martin Klein, and exhibition curators Elisabeth (Libby) Meier and Florencia Pierri, for a discussion on seeing and understanding the unknown across scientific disciplines. The panel will be followed by an opportunity to visit the Monsters of the Deep exhibition. 

May 6
6-8pm
$15 General Admission | $5 MIT ID Holders

Buy Tickets Today!

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Seeing and Understanding the Unknown

The Mindful Brain

Join us to explore new insights into the effects of meditation and mindfulness on brain health

 

Featuring:

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Tibetan Buddhist master and leader of the Tergar Meditation Community
Seventh incarnation of Yongey Mingyur Dorje

 

Richard Davidson
William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin–Madison 
Founder and Director, Center for Healthy Minds 

 

John Gabrieli
Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT
Investigator, McGovern Institute and Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

 

Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli
Tommy Fuss Professor of Precision Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

 

Program is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Register here: https://forms.gle/Ms1tXa7XpJMhpJKD7

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The Mindful Brain: New insights into the effects of meditation and mindfulness on brain health

Ocean discoveries over the past 50 years have reshaped our understanding of Earth's systems. Advances in robotics and sensors now enable deep-sea and coastal exploration, uncovering microbes and fungi crucial to ocean health and carbon cycling. Meanwhile, satellite Earth observation has revolutionized ocean monitoring and resource management. Join ​Dr. Katy Croff Bell (deep-sea exploration), Jo Hickman (marine microbial ecology), and Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapthy (space technologies) as they discuss how space and deep-sea technologies are democratizing research, driving biological discoveries, and informing climate strategies with the MIT Science Policy Review.

 

Speakers:

Dr. Katy Croff Bell, Founder and President, Ocean Discovery League

Jo Hickman, Ph.D. student MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, Applied Ocean Science and Engineering 

Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapathy, Research Engineer and Program Lead, Future Worlds, MIT Media Lab

 

Please RSVP here. 

Contact Kate Danahy at kdanahy@mit.edu with any questions. 

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Exploring Ocean Space: Where Deep Sea and Space Technologies Converge

Ocean discoveries over the past 50 years have reshaped our understanding of Earth's systems. Advances in robotics and sensors now enable unprecedented deep-sea and coastal exploration, uncovering microbes and fungi crucial to ocean health and carbon cycling. Meanwhile, satellite Earth observation has revolutionized ocean monitoring and resource management.

But how do these two realms—space and the deep sea—intersect to advance research and policymaking? How do satellite data and deep-sea sensors work together to drive biological discoveries and inform climate strategies? Join our experts in deep-sea exploration, marine microbial ecology, and space technologies as they explore these questions and more with the MIT Science Policy Review.

 

Speakers:

 

Katy Croff Bell, PhD, Founder and President, Ocean Discovery League: deep-sea explorer dedicated to democratizing ocean exploration through low-cost technologies, AI-driven data analysis, and capacity building. Bell’s expertise spans ocean engineering, maritime archaeology, and geological oceanography, and she has led numerous expeditions to advance accessible deep-sea discovery.

 

Jo Hickman, Ph.D. student MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, Applied Ocean Science and Engineering: studies marine microbial ecology, focusing on the biodiversity and ecological roles of understudied microbial eukaryotes in the open ocean. Hickman leverages a background in bioinformatics, earth science, and philosophy to bridge ocean science, technology, and policy for climate change mitigation and environmental decision-making.

 

Minoo Rathnasabapathy, PhD, Research Engineer and Program Lead, Future Worlds, MIT Media Lab: expert in space technologies driving climate intelligence and sustainability solutions. Rathnasabapathy combines an aerospace engineering background with global space policy leadership to bridge innovation and governance in addressing pressing environmental challenges.

 

Moderator:

Amelia Macapia, Guest Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: researcher in bioacoustics and sensory ecology studying acoustic monitoring for science-based conservation and management.  

 

Please RSVP here. 

Lunch will be available. Contact Kate Danahy at kdanahy@mit.edu with any questions. 

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From Ocean to Orbit: How Deep-Sea and Space Technologies Advance Marine Discoveries

For Researchers Interested in Commercializing their New Technology

Learn what I-Corps is all about and what to expect in the programExplore the benefits of participating in our I-Corps short courseWhat will the next steps be toward a potential $2MM in non-dilutive funding support 

There will be an opportunity for Q&A at the end of the session

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New England I-Corps Program Information Session

13 new startups emerge from MITdesignX this year.

We start off Pitch and Demo Day at 2pm, giving the live audience a chance to meet with the teams and see their new products and services. A lunch buffet will be served.

At 3pm, we begin our presentations with a recap of the year at MITdesignX and pitches by all the new startups. This segment of the day will be hybrid and livestreamed online to a global audience.

We hope to see you in person or online on May 16! Please register here.

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MITdesignX Demo + Pitch Day 2025

Speaker/ Moderator: Manish Bharadwaj, Ph.D.

Manish directs Keller Center's Design for Innovation program for faculty in the humanities and social sciences. He was previously the James Wei Visiting Professor at Keller, where he taught idealism in entrepreneurship. Manish is the CEO and co-founder of Innovators In Health, which is devoted to delivering world-class healthcare to the rural poor in India. Manish is also a Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. Manish believes that a venture to make the world more just is fundamentally a moral, not technical, undertaking. It requires cultivating a moral imagination, an ability to imagine why people do right or wrong, the root of empathy, itself the root of all enduring change. He believes that accompaniment, to stand with the marginalized, literally and figuratively, is a moral imperative, and in and of itself a powerful means of change.

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Student Roundtable: Can Social Change-makers make the World Just?

MITdesignX seeks diverse, interdisciplinary teams working on challenging ideas with clear vision, passion and drive to design solutions and launch a real venture.  Applications go through a rigorous selection process that reviews ideas based on human, environmental and social impact, feasibility, uniqueness, and scalability as well as team composition, diversity and skillset.

Up to 12 teams are selected for each cohort. Applicants can include graduate students, researchers, staff and faculty members from across MIT, as well as their colleagues from other institutions or industry.

Participants receive a 10K seed grant, 18 credits, workspace, and mentoring. Apply here now!

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