Undergraduate
Exploration and Collaboration
We foster a community that promotes research, knowledge, and creativity in the classroom and the lab.
Rachel Shen SB ’22
Coming to MIT, I knew I wanted to do something with biology and the environment. Studying the marine bacterium Prochlorococcus in the Chisholm lab has helped me understand how one organism’s cellular-level processes can affect entire ecosystems. I’ve been able to apply what I’ve learned at MIT Biology to projects in biotechnology and bioremediation; it’s really important to me that my research has applications that are directly relevant to people and the world around us.