Connecting Unisannio and MIT  in the common vision of making a better world 

Project “Connecting Unisannio and MIT”

On November 3rd 2017 a Letter of Intent  has been  signed between our University and the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the person of Dr. Serenella Sferza, International Agreements Administrator and MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives) - Italy Program Co-Director.

The Letter of Intent is born within the activities promoted by the MIT Alumni Association, of which Prof. Silvia Liberata Ullo is a member since she graduated from MIT pursuing a Master of Science in Management, a two-year master's degree. Silvia Liberata Ullo is the Coordinator of the project.

The Student/Alumni Externship Program, created by the MIT Alumni Association, connects current students at MIT with Alumni in their workplaces worldwide during MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP) in January. These are short-term opportunities in a variety of fields that offer long-term benefits to the hosting Institutions.

Here is the link:

https://alum.mit.edu/volunteervolunteer-opportunities/externship-program-sponsors

The idea behind this project “Connecting Unisannio and MIT” is to link students so far away and to host them in our Community, made of our students, our researchers, teachers, PhDs, employees, and the students from the high schools of Benevento. The goal is to make the people of Benevento more and more proud of our university and the young people of our City, and not only, eager to discover the many study and research activities carried out at the University of Sannio, which aroused so much interest from overseas students belonging to MIT, the first university in the world.

Proposals

You can find below on this page various proposals from colleagues of all the Departments of the University of Sannio:

1. Law and Economics (DEMM)

2. Engineering (DING)

3. Science, Biology, and Geology (DST)

In particular, since 2018, by involving the MIT students, UNISANNIO has started meetings with the high schools of Benevento, and in 2019 it was presented and carried on the project: 

"Understanding our Planet and defending it from climatic upheavals", which allowed the introduction of the young Greta Thunberg, well before she became famous. The project carried on in January 2019 was supervised by UNISANNIO and high school teachers, with the MIT students involved. About 300 fourth-year high school students have been involved. The inspiration for the project topic and the brainstorming model came from the MIT Terrascope project.

Reference links:

https://terrascope.mit.edu/

https://youtu.be/nSLnNFY4B08

High school students in Benevento and its province have been involved in projects with MIT students also in the following editions.

Students of this 2024 edition

Ashley Zhang  <ashleyz@mit.edu>, Emily Albornoz <albornoz@mit.edu >, Miles Roper <milesar@mit.edu >, Grace Armstrong and Isabella Witham (Global Teaching Labs Program).

Students of previous editions

In January 2023 we hosted 5 students from MIT: 

Benjamin Rich <brrich@mit.edu>, Veronica Muriga <wmuriga@mit.edu>, Claire Lu <luclaire@mit.edu>, Esha Ranade <eranade@mit.edu>, Lana Van Note <lvannote@mit.edu>, Zitong Chen Stella <zitongc@mit.edu>

In January 2022 MIT and Unisnanio decided to temporarily suspend the program due to COVID restrictions

In January 2021 we hosted (remotely) 11 students from MIT: 

Daniela A Zaidenberg <dzaiden@mit.edu>, Sheila J Baber <sbaber@mit.edu>, Blake T Shepherd <bshep23@mit.edu>, Xinyi Fu (Hope) <hopefu@mit.edu>, Seo Yeong Kwag (Shauna) <kwags@mit.edu>, David Lewis <davidlew@mit.edu>, Ellie Feng <ellief@mit.edu>, Christina M Patterson <cmpatter@mit.edu>, Julia G. Contini <continij@mit.edu>, Jack W. Yurkanin <yurkanin@mit.edu>, Anna Mai <annamai@mit.edu>

In January 2020 we hosted 29 students from MIT: 

Naksha Roy <royn@mit.edu>, Elisabeth D Bullock <edb22@mit.edu>, Sophie J. Guo <sophiejg@mit.edu>, Michelle Kornberg <michkor@mit.edu>, Crystal Pham <cpham@mit.edu>, Alisa Y. Hathaway <alisah@mit.edu>, Jack W. Snowdon <jsnowdon@mit.edu>, Ria V. Sonecha <rsonecha@mit.edu>, Sarah A. Quraishi <sarahq@mit.edu>, Hunter K. Celio <hcelio@mit.edu>, William A. Jones <jonesw@mit.edu>, Emily R. Satterfield <emilysat@mit.edu>, Kathryn A. Tso <ktso@mit.edu>, Amanda N. Garofalo <agarofal@mit.edu>, Amelia A. Meles <ameles@mit.edu>, Deekshita Kacham <dkacham@mit.edu>, Nguyen N. Le <nguyenle@mit.edu>, Siyoung Kim <ksiyoung@mit.edu>, Ye Cheng Zheng <yechengz@mit.edu>, Dana L Haig <dhaig@mit.edu>, Claire L. Yost <cyost@mit.edu>, Kaitlyn A. Hennacy <khennacy@mit.edu>, Rokas P. Veitas <rokas@mit.edu>, Sabrina Tseng  <stseng110499@gmail.com>, Alec M. Nguyen <nguyena@mit.edu>, Jade K. Ishii <jadei@mit.edu>, Mindy F. Long <mflong@mit.edu>, Ufuoma Ovienmhada <ufuoma@mit.edu>, Phoebe T. Spear <pspear@mit.edu>, Cindy Chen <ccindy@mit.edu>

In January 2019 we hosted 26 students from MIT: 

Olivia L Chong <ochong@mit.edu>, Manuel Morales <manolin@mit.edu>, Stanley D Pomichter <stashp@mit.edu>, Jaclyn A Ng <ngjaclyn@mit.edu>, Maximillian S Langenkamp <maxnz@mit.edu>, Tuomas P Oikarinen <tuomas@mit.edu>, Kaitlyn M Mullin <kmulls@mit.edu>, Devin J. Seyler <dseyler@mit.edu>, Jamarber Bakalli <bakalli@mit.edu>, Sarah M Dohadwala <sarahmd@mit.edu>, Gill Lin <gill_lin@mit.edu>, Mai N. Nguyen <nguyenma@mit.edu>, Zachary Alfaro <zswole@mit.edu>, Elina M Sendonaris <elinas@mit.edu>, Muye Yang <willers@mit.edu>, Julia A. Wyatt <jawyatt@mit.edu>, Erika P. Mynio <emynio@mit.edu>, Lori L Zhang <lorizha@mit.edu>, Uriel Magana-Salgado <umagana@mit.edu>, Peter A. Griggs <pgriggs@mit.edu>, Maxwell K. Fishelson <maxfish@mit.edu>, Heather M. Nelson <hnelson@mit.edu>, Jennifer A. Fox <jenfox@mit.edu>, Margaret E. Rodriguez <rodrme18@mit.edu>, Alex Homma <ahomma@mit.edu>, Grace Chuan <gchuan@mit.edu>

In January 2018 we hosted 5 students from MIT: 

Benjamin Rodriguez <benji3@mit.edu>, Trang Luu <trangluu@mit.edu>, Spencer Pantoja <spensirp@mit.edu>, Ahmad Mujtaba Jebran <jebran@mit.edu>, Wendy Trattner <wtratt@mit.edu>.

Please write an email to them to get information on their experience.