Resources

This page is an non-exhaustive list of resources external to MIT that might be relevant to MIT graduate students. If you have any questions about the resources listed here, or suggestions for additions, reach out to gsc-eab-dev@mit.edu.

News

For a list of all the news subscriptions you have access to with an MIT email, check out this guide from the MIT Libraries.

Science policy at the US Federal level

AIP FYI: The American Institute of Physics maintains a detailed tracker for science policy news. Make sure to subscribe to the weekly newsletter and check out the budget tracker!
MIT Washington DC Office: MIT’s Washington DC Office has many resources for science policy news, including a weekly newsletter you can sign up for here.
STAT D.C. Diagnosis: This one is more specific to medical and biotech related news coming out of D.C., but it does have useful info. Create an account with your MIT email address for free access.

Massachusetts, Cambridge, and Somerville local news

Politico Massachusetts Playbook: A daily newsletter with everything you need to know about MA news.
Cambridge Day: Local news from “Camberville” (Cambridge + Somerville). Sign up for the weekly newsletter!

Ways to contact your elected representatives

US Federal Government

Congressional offices are available to help Massachusetts residents with any problems that relate to a federal government service. For example, we have worked with Senator Markey’s office on individual international student visa cases. However, we emphasize that the case workers can only find out more information about the status of your case, and cannot alter the outcome of any individual case.

You can fill out the following forms from these offices and a case worker will get back to you:

MA State Government

State House and Senate

The state house and senate mirrors the federal house and senate in structure and are both legislative bodies within their respective scopes.

Both state house representatives and senators can be found by street address here.
Full list of house representatives.
Full list of senators.

Governor’s office

While the governor’s office (Gov. Healey and Lt. Gov. Driscoll) does not have jurisdiction over local (city/town/county) issues, it can veto and sign legislation into law, and issue executive orders.

Various ceremonial requests or invitations can be submitted here.
Other state level requests/issues can be submitted here.

City governments

City councils function as local-level legislative bodies with powers over, for example, policymaking and budgeting.

All Massachusetts city and town websites can be found here. Contacts for a shortlist of cities are found below.