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Explore Careers in Medicine & Healthcare this IAP!

CAPD

MIT Alumni Discuss their Experience in Medical School | Jan 10 th 6:00 – 7:00 pm ET | Zoom link here Join MIT’s Prehealth Advising for a panel of 3 MIT alumni currently in their first year of medical school to get answers to your most pressing questions about medical school and being prehealth at MIT.

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What could virtual reality mean for higher ed?

EAB

VR could address two age-old pedagogical challenges: inspiration and application Didactic “information transmission” often fails to provide inspiration and application, leaving requiring highly motivated students to answer “why does this matter?” How and when will these technologies achieve scale in society and higher ed? on their own.

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Study Abroad Hidden Gems in Fall 2023 

AIFS Abroad

AIFS Abroad student in Salamanca, Spain #2: Medical and Health Program | Salamanca, Spain All courses are taught in English except for one course (Health Communication) which is available in English or Spanish. Students can choose up to 5 courses; a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 4 must be from the Health and Medical Program.

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To Weather the Storms of Higher Education, Remember Why You’re There

Supporting Student Success

In 2008, I was recruited to run a grant with the purpose of connecting adult learners with data to inform their college choices so they didn’t need to depend on marketing hype from lead generation websites. But he always wanted to pursue a degree in computer science—he loved technology. She earned her Ed.D.

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

After all, students who lack a solid background in calculus and statistics are not only closed out of programs in business analytics and financial technology, engineering, epidemiology and health informatics, machine learning and the quantitative social sciences, but even medical, dental and nursing school. It’s necessary.

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Should I Disclose Learning Differences on the College Application

Great College Advice

Learning Disabilities and College Success Should a student with a learning disability share that information on the college application? Should students disclose this information or keep the diagnosis private? Colleges love to send out information, and among the materials they will send your family are the documentation guidelines.

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Innovations and Ethical Considerations for AI in Higher Education

Higher Ed Connects: Technology

Nourbakhsh, Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, discussed a series of issues related to AI and its potential applications. Nourbakhsh is the author of the books Robot Futures and Parenting for Technology Futures. About the author. Dr. Terri E.