Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

Launched by MIT Sea Grant, the SeaPerch and SeaPerch II remotely operated robots have had a big impact on young learners interested in ocean science and engineering.

The SHASS Faculty Fellows Program is an MIT Human Insight Collaborative initiative that allows faculty to focus on research, writing, and artistic production with Institute support.

The MIT-Takeda Program concluded after a four-year partnership that generated 16 publications, a patent, and nearly two dozen projects in an effort to develop the use of AI in health care.

MIT math major Janabel Xia sorts algorithms and improving traffic control systems for driverless vehicles, is a member of several dance clubs, is active in several social justice organizations, worked on cryptography and web authentication technology, and created a polling app that allows users to vote anonymously.

Noya, a startup founded by MIT alumnus Josh Santos, has developed low-power, modular units that can be combined to create facilities for removing millions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

MIT PhD student Jackson Jewett is working to shrink the construction industry's huge carbon footprint through algorithms for designing large structures using less material.

MIT Associate Professor Betar Gallant uses electrochemistry to develop new sustainable technologies, including systems that capture carbon dioxide emissions and produce higher-energy rechargeable lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

MIT senior Keith Murray combines his interests in neuroscience, computation, and philosophy to better understand human behavior. "I'm trying to blend different approaches together to understand the complexities of human cognition," he says.

MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) recently awarded five graduate fellowships to MIT PhD students whose innovative research pushes forward transformational water and food solutions on a global scale.

In two new MIT classes, undergraduate students learned the fundamentals of nanotechnology through hands-on assignments that taught them to design, build, and test their own nanoscale devices using the facilities of MIT.nano.

At MIT's Festival of Learning 2025, faculty, instructors, and students emphasized the importance of designing interdisciplinary hands-on learning experiences and illustrating real-world contexts to help undergraduates better develop a sense of global impact and social responsibility.

MIT senior YongYan (Crystal) Liang shares photos from her world travels and answers several self-selected questions in this Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Student Spotlight.

MIT rising senior and Army ROTC cadet Alexander Edwards and alumnus Aneal Krishnan discuss a new Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program fellowship with the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies.

With a double major in mathematics and electrical engineering and computer science, MIT senior Elaine Siyu Liu is exploring the ways in which renewable energy and electric vehicles impact the power grid.

MIT Sea Grant is working with students and partners including the Aquaculture Research Corporation to create a machine learning image recognition tool that will help aquaculture hatcheries monitor shellfish larvae and ensure sustainable and healthy seed production.

John Gabrieli, Marah Gubar, Adam C. Martin, and Lawrence (Larry) Sass have been named 2023 Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellows for their exceptional undergraduate teaching.

President L. Rafael Reif greeted the MIT Class of 2026, who gathered with their families under a large and airy tent on Kresge Oval for Convocation, the Institute's annual welcome to the incoming class.

After finishing several degrees and a 20-year professional career, George Lordos became an MIT PhD student to work on technologies to enable humans to live on Mars.

MIT MEng students Yo-whan "John" Kim, Emma Liu, and Clemente Ocejo tackled and guided application-focused research with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.

Through the MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium, students dive into undergraduate research opportunities that center on climate and sustainability topics.