Yubin Cai, a PhD student in the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek group; Manvitha Ponnapati, a PhD student in the Molecular Machines group; Jessica Shand, a master's student in the Opera of the Future group; and Jaleesa Trapp, a PhD student in the Lifelong Kindergarten group, have received MIT Presidential Fellowship awards for 2022. 

This program is administered by the MIT Office of Graduate Education in coordination with the Office of the Provost. MIT admitted the first class of Presidential Fellows in September 1999, and currently supports 110-125 new graduate students as Presidential Fellows each year.