Opportunities

MIT.nano is hiring an administrative assistant! This person will act as the primary point of contact and customer success representative assisting prospective users with basic facility navigation inquiries, ensuring efficient, effective, and timely responses; support existing users with administrative inquiries, registration, and onboarding activities; assist with conference and event planning and coordinating; provide complex administrative office support; coordinate conference rooms bookings; and maintain portions of facility website content.

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Volunteer to be an MIT.nano tour guide! Share the fascinating world of nanoscience and nanotechnology with facility visitors. Tours are being scheduled now for the spring semester and beyond. MIT.nano will provide a script and tour training, as well as Tech Cash for each completed tour.

Come to our next tour guide training on October 17! 12PM - 1:30PM in 12-3005. Lunch will be provided.

Use this form to volunteer.

In celebration of National Nanotechnology Day and National Chemistry Week, three scientific organizations are holding a joint image contest. The American Chemical Society (ACS) is sponsoring the prizes for NanoInFocus. The top three winning images will receive prizes of up to $1,000. The winning images may also be featured in the NNI Supplement to the President’s Budget, which will be sent to Congress, and in Chemical & Engineering News, a weekly news magazine published by ACS.

Submissions due Sept. 25!

MIT.nano is hiring a user services coordinator! This person will act as the primary point of contact and customer success representative for MIT.nano. A bachelor’s degree and at least two years’ administrative, operations, and/or project/program management experience is required.

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NT24 is the 24th conference of the NT series, one of the most influential scientific conferences in the field of nanoscience and technology. NT24 will take place from June 23-28, 2024 at MIT.

Read more and submit an abstract

The Howe Innovation Center and MIT CSAIL are hosting #HackDisability: AI for Accessibility – a hackathon that will bring together diverse teams of software and hardware engineers, students, product managers, MBAs, designers, and people with the lived experience of having a disability, with the shared goal of developing innovative AI solutions to enhance accessibility for people with disabilities.

Read more and register

The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) is currently accepting applications for the 2024-2025 J-WAFS Fellowships for Water and Food Solutions. This opportunity is for MIT PhD students with research in water or food systems. 

Read more and apply by March 1

Blueprint, by The Engine is a nonresident program for graduate students, postdocs, and research scientists to explore the commercial opportunities of their scientific breakthroughs. The program is designed to give future Tough Tech leaders a chance to learn the entrepreneurial process from those who are living it, as well as provide a platform to crystallize the commercial potential of participants’ startup concepts. The Spring 2024 program will be held on five Fridays between April 5th to May 10th.

Apply by March 5.