On February 17, 2026, we had a group lunch at Area Four to celebrate Sanaa’s birthday (and to mark the start of the spring semester)…

Led by our amazing UROPs Pauline Vien and Christina Fradella, MIT women’s lacrosse beat #1 seed Babson 16-6 to win the NEWMAC Championship! It’s the team’s first conference championship since 2015.

Next up, the NCAA tournament! Congrats and good luck!!

In February 2025, we had a group lunch at Area Four to celebrated Sioban’s completion of her MSEAS visit, and to mark the start of the spring semester. Sanaa showed us how to be in two places at once!

MSEAS had a party to celebrate Pierre’s birthday today (Nov 1, 2024)…

At the end of July, MSEAS had a party with lasagna to celebrate the completion of Marcoul’s visit with us and Lisa’s birthday! All the best for the future Marcoul!!

Congratulations to Dr. Manan Doshi on his graduation! Manan successfully defended and received his PhD from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “High Dimensional Optimal Path Planning and Generalized Lagrangian Data Assimilation in Stochastic Dynamical Ocean Environments” with our MSEAS group at MIT. We wish all the best to Manan on plotting his future path!

In December, we celebrated the end of the fall semester and holidays with a pizza party.
Now we kick off the spring semester with…another pizza party!
And this time, everybody was able to make it…and Ellen showed us how to be in two places at once!

It was good…

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Today (July 28, 2023) is Lisa’s birthday, and everyone at MSEAS gathered for a special tribute!

Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Charous on his graduation! Aaron successfully defended and received his PhD from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Dynamical Reduced-Order Models for High-Dimensional Systems” with our MSEAS group at MIT. We wish all the best to Aaron for his next steps!

Below are some pictures from graduation:

MSEAS was also introduced to Jeppson’s Malört.

As part of the MSEAS trip to Woods Hole in August 2022, a visit to Nobska Light was in order!

Pat and Marco!!

MSEAS members Tony, Yoland, Abhinav, and Pierre celebrated their birthdays in October and November, and Chris celebrated his 10-year work anniversary with MSEAS in October, and the group gathered outside the Student Center to celebrate!

MSEAS member Chinmay Kulkarni succesfully defended his PhD on September 24, 2020 and the group gathered in the Killian Court to celebrate!

Congratulations Dr. Chinmay! We wish you all the best going forward!

MSEAS member Jing Lin succesfully defended his PhD on August 14, 2020 and the group gathered in the Killian Court to celebrate!

Before Jing’s departure from the US, he and several other MSEAS members went to the zoo.

Congratulations Dr. Jing! We wish you all the best going forward!

Members of the MSEAS group celebrated the completion of the theses of Thomas Sondergaard and Konur Yiğit with a gathering at John Harvard’s in Harvard Square and a visit to John Harvard himself.