Thirty-two exceptional MIT students selected as 2023 Burchard Scholars
The MIT Faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (MIT SHASS) is happy to announce that 32 MIT undergraduate sophomores and juniors have been named because the 2023 Burchard Students.
Elected by the Burchard Committee from a big pool of spectacular candidates, all college students chosen for this system have demonstrated excellence and engagement within the humanistic fields, however might be majoring in science, design, and engineering fields in addition to within the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
In the middle of this calendar 12 months, the Burchard Students will attend seminar dinners with members of the SHASS college, throughout which they’ll have the prospect to interact with the school and with each other. This system is designed to broaden horizons for promising college students, in addition to to offer students the prospect to interact in pleasant however difficult discussions during which to hone expertise for expressing, critiquing, and debating concepts with friends and mentors. Throughout the course of the calendar 12 months, the students additionally attend a number of cultural occasions within the Boston metropolitan space.
The important thing options of those dinners are the shows by SHASS’s college, on matters starting from nuclear safety to an financial view of synthetic intelligence to cross-cultural histories in centuries-old manuscripts. Drawing on the college’s huge and various fields of experience, the seminars supply near-endless avenues of exploration for bold students.
It’s maybe no shock {that a} excessive proportion of the MIT college students who obtain Rhodes, Marshall, and different main scholarships and fellowships are former Burchard Students. “These college students are a unprecedented group of MIT undergraduates,” says Margery Resnick, affiliate professor of literature and director of the Burchard program. “They’re considerate, sensible, and enthusiastic in regards to the alternative to debate a variety of concepts with college and fellow college students.”
The 2023 Burchard Students are:
Jennifer Ai
Antti Eero Asikainen
Elizabeth Athaide
Stephen Alexander Brennan
Matthew Caren
Anushree Chaudhuri
Diana Degnan
Diego Delarue
Katherine Ellison
Iana Ferguson
Ishan Ganguly
Willow Huang
Selena Liu
Rachel Loh
Benjamin Lou
Pleasure Ma
Grace McMillan
Raj Mehta
Emmi Mills
Laker Newhouse
Katherine Reisig
Ananda Santos Figueiredo
Teddy Schoenfeld
Alexis Spinetta
Olivia Steger
Pedro Suarez
Amber Velez
Daisy Wang
Felicia Xiao
Cindy Xie
Yi Jun Yang
Alexis Zitzmann