Epistimi News
Dr. Angeliki Rigos and two of her colleagues from the MIT Energy Initiative, Aruna Joglekar and Trinity White, completed their paper on the competencies for leading the Energy Transition based on interviews of 35 leaders in energy. They found that the energy transition demands leaders who combine foundational leadership skills with adaptability, relationship building, collaboration, impact drive and systems thinking. To download the article, please fill out the form.
Epistimi runs the US-Japan funded leadership training for Women in Japan in September 2024 in Tokyo. There were 23 participants from China, India, Iran, Japan and USA.
Epistimi runs the LUCE funded leadership training for Women in Energy at the American College of Greece in July 2024. There were 27 participants from 11 countries: Bosnia, Canada, China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda and USA.
Epistimi receives funding from the US-Japan Foundation to provide leadership training to Women in STEMM in Japan in September 2024.
Angeliki Rigos gave the Women in Materials Science & Engineering Keynote Breakfast Talk during the MRS Fall Conference on Tuesday, November 28, 2023 in Boston.
The title of her talk was “STEM Heroines - Leading Change to a Net-Zero Carbon World”. Reactions to her talk can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHOEClCJNkw
You can watch a short interview with MRS TV here:
Angeliki Rigos presented a poster with Prof. Anna Frebel at the National Academies Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education 2023 Public Summit on October 17, 2023 in Washington DC. The poster title was “Empowering Graduate Students and Postdocs with Sustained Leadership Practice: LEAdership and Professional Strategies and Skills (LEAPS) at MIT.”
Epistimi partners with the American College of Greece and receives funding from the Henry Luce Foundation to provide leadership training to Women in STEMM in July 2024
Epistimi runs it first in-person leadership training for Women in STEMM at the American College of Greece in July 2023
In Spring 2023, the MIT LEAPS Program was awarded the Irwin Sizer Award for the “Most Significant Improvement to MIT Education” by the MIT Graduate Student Council.
GIANT LEAPS by Sandi Miller appeared in the Physics at MIT Newsletter 2022. The article describes the birth of the MIT LEAPS Program and what the graduate students and postdocs have to say about it.
