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EECS Communication Advisor Spotlight: Alex Hanson

January 10, 2017 Alex is a third-year PhD student in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and a Communication Advisor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Why did you become a Communication Advisor? I became a Communication Advisor on the belief that soft skills (e.g., communication) serve as brokers for good ideas to the benefit […]

BE Communication Fellow Alumni Spotlight: Jen Wilson

September 6, 2016 Jen Wilson was one of the founding cohort of BE Communication Fellows, who joined when the Lab was established in 2013. She was a BE PhD student in Doug Lauffenburger’s lab, working collaboratively with Profs. Ernest Fraenkel and Mike Hemann on network approaches for functional genomic screens in cancer. Jen graduated with her PhD in […]

Sandbox Innovation to Launch Fellows Program

September 6, 2016 MIT Sandbox Innovation is seeking approximately 15 graduate students and post-docs to serve as Sandbox Fellows for 2016-7. Sandbox Fellows will be paid to receive training and support the Sandbox Program recipient teams. The Sandbox Program will be supported by the Communication Lab and the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship at MIT, along with many […]