Meet Your OVC Colleagues: Summer 2025
Cheryl Mottley Administrative Assistant IIOffice of Academic Community, Empowerment and Success (formerly OME) Brian Tavares Director of Finance and Administration, OVC HQ Zoë Wright Communications SpecialistOffice of Graduate Education Lauren Rodriguez Sr. Assistant Director, OutreachAdmissions Office
In Praise of Exceptional Teaching: Two ESG Math Lecturers Retiring
Dr. Gabrielle Stoy and Dr. Jerry Orloff, the Experimental Study Group’s (ESG) long-time math lecturers, will retire at the end of this year. Over their two decades at ESG, Gabrielle and Jerry have taught and advised hundreds of ESG first-year students and mentored many undergraduate teaching assistants (TAs), shaping the first-year experience.
Flipping Failure Featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Beckie Supiano highlights Flipping Failure in the March 21 edition of her weekly Teaching newsletter from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Meet Our 2024 Davis Projects for Peace Fellow!
MIT junior Victory Yinka-Banjo is the PKG Center’s 2024 Davis Projects for Peace Fellow! Victory is partnering with NaijaCoder Inc. and the University of Lagos’s Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AIRLAB) to support youth, promote sustainable development, and foster lasting peace in Nigeria.
Old Ironsides Battalion Spring Update
As students settle back in to the routine this spring, several Battalion events have been keeping them busy!
OVC Staff Council Is Off and Running!
The inaugural OVC Staff Council is excited to hit the ground running. The Staff Council was an idea that came from the OVC headquarters team to help promote cross-office collaboration and create a strong sense of community within the division. This council is made up of 13 staff members from a variety of offices within OVC who are excited to engage in discussion, collaboration, and implementation.
Enhancing the Student Veteran Experience
Since August of 2023, Student Veteran Success (SVS) has been working with the PGA New England HOPE foundation to put together a free golf clinic for veterans and military members who are students at MIT.
Meet Your OVC Colleagues: Spring 2025
Ashlee Andrews Visiting Student Program ManagerInternational Students Office Charlie Turner Administrator, Undergraduate Degree AuditRegistrar’s Office Alison Hynd Assistant Dean and InstructorPKG Center John Sandoval Associate Dean, Advising and Academic AchievementUndergraduate Advising Center
New OVC Employees Nov. 1, 2023 – Feb. 1, 2024
Congratulations and welcome to our the new employees that have recently joined OVC!
Introducing the Faculty Job Search Guide
CAPD has created an invaluable resource for PhDs and postdocs to help them prepare for their job search. These examples and how-to guides will with help students navigate the process of creating all the documents they might need to take their next steps into industry or academe.