Current Issue
Grad Update: Summer 2024
Search for the Next Vice Chancellor ~ Paying It Forward ~ Polishing the Academic Cover Letter ~ Blog about … Life! ~ and more.
Grad Update: Spring 2024
Welcoming a New Graduate Student Cohort ~ FAQs Post-CBA ~ Prioritize Your Mental Health and Well-being ~ Faculty Job Search Series ~ Become a Grad Community Fellow ~ and more.
Grad Update: Winter 2024
Benefits Table for Graduate Students ~ MIT’s Newest Grad Housing Option ~ Dialogues Across Difference: Building Community at MIT ~ 4th Annual Research Slam ~ Spring Career Night ~ and more.
2023
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Grad Update: Fall 2023
Graduate Student Union Update ~ New Program Administrator for Grad Students with Families ~ Recharge in the New Wellbeing Lab ~ Updated Poster Policy ~ MLK 50th Anniversary Art Projects ~ and more.
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Grad Update: Summer 2023
Denzil Streete Appointed to Lead OGE ~ Career Exploration Grants ~ Access Alumni Advisors ~ GradSupport Liaisons ~ Grad Blog Workshop ~ and more.
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Grad Update: Spring 2023
AY2024 Stipend Rates for Graduate Fellows ~ Blanche Staton: A Transformational Leader at MIT ~ Join the Teaching Development Fellows Network ~ MIT Awards Convocation ~ Recognize a Caring Professor ~ and more.
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Grad Update: Winter 2023
Update on Grad Union Negotiations ~ Find a Listening Ear ~ Join the MIT Research Slam! ~ Winter Family Day ~ Reframing the First Generation Academic Experience ~ and more.
2022
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Grad Update: Fall 2022
Graduate Student Unionization Updates ~ New Report on Remote Teaching Best Practices for On-campus Education ~ Infinite Careers Speakers ~ MIT Families Slack Space ~ and more.
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Grad Update: Summer 2022
What to Expect from Covid-19 This Fall ~ Graduate Activities Resources Fair ~ Campus Lactation Rooms ~ Sidney-Pacific Residence Hall Celebrates 20 Years ~ and more.
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Grad Update: Spring 2022
Stipend Rates Set for AY2023 ~ On Civility: In Search of the Path Forward ~ Launch Your Faculty Job Search ~ Grant Increase for Grad Students with Children ~ and more.
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Grad Update: Winter 2022
Get Informed. Then Vote! ~ Changes in MIT’s Senior Leadership ~ Financial Wellbeing Workshops ~ Parenting Students Lunch and Learn Series ~ and more.
2021
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Grad Update: Fall 2021
Boosting Backup Child Care ~ Grad Students of Color Mentoring Circles ~ Celebrating MIT’s Veterans ~ Networking for PhDs and Postdocs ~ and more.
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Grad Update: Summer 2021
Melissa Nobles Assumes Chancellor Role ~ Gender Neutral Pronoun Primer ~ Financial Assistance for Grad Students ~ Graduate Student Experience Grants ~ and more.
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Grad Update: Spring 2021
Get a Free Digital Diploma ~ GSC Releases Grad Research Advising Data ~ Teaching Development Fellowships ~ Committed to Caring ~ and more.
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Grad Update: Winter 2021
New Experiential Learning Exchange Portal ~ Institute-wide Research Slam Competition ~ iGrad Financial Literacy Portal ~ New Administrator for Graduate Student Families ~ and more.
2020
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Grad Update: Fall 2020
Graduate Tower at Site 4 Opens ~ Introducing ask.mit.edu ~ Tap Alumni for Advice ~ Subsidized Backup Child Care ~ and more.
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Grad Update: Summer 2020
Fall 2020 Campus Guide for Graduate Students ~ Introducing MIT Now ~ Virtual Fall Career Fair Series ~ New Funding for Graduate Students with Children ~ and more.
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Grad Update: Spring 2020
GEL Program Expands to Graduate Students ~ Prioritizing Mental Health and Well-being ~ Student Success Coaching Program ~ MIT Spouses and Partners Connect ~ and more.
2019
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Grad Update: Winter 2019
New Faculty Peer Mentoring Program ~ Communication Lab ~ Promoting the “Heart” in MIT’s Academic Departments ~ MIT Guide for Students with Children ~ and more.
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Grad Update: Fall 2019
New DEI Module ~ Inaugural Graduate Student Professional Development Week ~ Hone Your Leadership Skills ~ Graduate Families Newsletter ~ and more.
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Grad Update: Spring 2019
Stipend Rates for 2019-20 ~ GradSAGE Pilot ~ GSC Elections ~ Grad Support Flowchart ~ and more.
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Introducing a new grad e-letter
Re-introducing Career Advising & Professional Development ~ MIT Gain ~ Childbirth Accommodation and Parental Leave ~ 2019 Hack for Inclusion ~ and more.