DUSPer Profiles
Below are a selection of articles from MIT’s News Office, profiling individual students who have had a significant impact while at DUSP.
• Negotiating with infrastructure cyberterrorists: 3Q with Gregory Falco
• On alien typos and self-care, in conversation with Seth Meyers
• Environmental regulation in a polarized culture
• Sealing the cracks in public education: MIT senior Yazmin Guzman wants to change the educational landscape to provide opportunities to all K-12 students
• Building a more inclusive future, worldwide
• Natural resource negotiations for mutual gains
• Jessica Myers: Liberté, Égalité, Sécurité
• Harnessing the power of citizens
• From engineer to urban planner
• Seeking simple solutions with huge impacts
• Lessons from the MIT Water Club
• Planning differently
• Going local in the “Coral Triangle”
Award & Fellowship Winners
Many students receive support and recognition for their work in the form of fellowships, scholarships, and mentorship. From local MIT-focused competitions to renowned global fellowship programs, below is a selection of articles featuring recent DUSP student award winners, recognized for their hard work, innovative approaches, and commitment to social impact.
• Eleven MIT students accept 2019 Fulbright Fellowships
• Yazmin Guzman named 2019 Gates Cambridge Scholar
• DUSP Graduate Student awarded a 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• MindHandHeart announces 12 new Innovation Fund winners
• Venture accelerator DesignX unleashes entrepreneurs’ ideas to transform the built environment
• More than 30 from MIT named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists
• Krithika Ramchander and Andrea Beck awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
• MIT brainpower highlighted in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 lists for 2018
• MIT Federal Credit Union bestows annual scholarships, People Helping People Award
• DUSP doctoral candidate awarded 2017 Priscilla King Gray Award for Public Service
• Four DUSP Students Awarded Rappaport Public Policy Fellowships
• Two DUSP Students Named Switzer Fellows
• Urban planning research papers receive Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning honors
• Eight from MIT awarded 2016 Fulbright grants