The Burchard Scholars program selected 35 MIT undergraduates from across STEM disciplines for the competitive designation. It features a seminar series and conversations over dinners with distinguished faculty.
The Burchard Scholars dinner series helps create conversations between academic disciplines including physics, engineering, philosophy, and economics. The program pairs MIT sophomores and juniors with Faculty Fellows to discuss important ideas.
Thirty-two exceptional MIT undergrads were selected as 2023 Burchard Scholars. They will enjoy a seminar series and conversations over dinners with distinguished faculty.
“Design most definitely involves aspects of both humanities and STEM,” says MIT senior Ibuki Iwasaki. The art and design and computation and cognition major seeks to develop technology that prioritizes how human users think.
MIT alumna Natasha Joglekar '21 recently graduated with a computer science and biology major and a women's and gender studies minor. Her combination of STEM and humanistic studies prepared her for medical research and gave her insight into the social determinants of health, and the human factors that drive societal outcomes.