MIT senior Mishael Quraishi has been chosen as a 2025-26 Churchill Scholar and can undertake an MPhil in archaeological analysis at Cambridge College within the U.Okay. this fall.
Quraishi, who’s majoring in materials sciences and archaeology with a minor in historical and medieval research, envisions a future profession as a supplies scientist, utilizing archeological strategies to know how historical strategies might be utilized to fashionable issues.
On the Masic Lab at MIT, Quraishi was answerable for learning Egyptian blue, the world’s oldest artificial pigment, to uncover historical strategies for mass manufacturing. Via this analysis, she secured an internship on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Division of Scientific Analysis, the place she characterised pigments on the Amathus sarcophagus. Final fall, she offered her findings to kick off the Worldwide Roundtable on Polychromy on the Getty Museum. Quraishi has continued analysis within the Masic lab and her work on the “Blue Room” of Pompeii was featured on NBC nightly information.
Outdoors of analysis, Quraishi has been energetic in MIT’s makerspace and artwork communities. She has created engravings and acrylic pourings within the MIT MakerWorkshop, metallic sculptures within the MIT Forge, and coloured glass rods within the MIT Metropolis makerspace. Quraishi additionally performs the piano and harp and has sung with the Harvard Summer season Refrain and the Handel and Haydn Society. She at present serves because the president of the Society for Undergraduates in Supplies Science (SUMS) and captain of the light-weight girls’s rowing group that gained MIT’s first Division I nationwide championship title in 2022.
“We’re delighted that Mishael could have the chance to increase her vital and fascinating analysis at Cambridge College,” says Kim Benard, affiliate dean of distinguished fellowships. “Her mixture of scientific inquiry, humanistic method, and inventive spirit make her a perfect consultant of MIT.”
The Churchill Scholarship is a extremely aggressive fellowship that yearly presents 16 American college students the chance to pursue a funded graduate diploma in science, arithmetic, or engineering at Churchill School inside Cambridge College. The scholarship, which was established in 1963, honors former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s imaginative and prescient of U.S.-U.Okay. scientific trade. Since 2017, two further Kanders Churchill Scholarships have been awarded every year for research in science coverage.
MIT college students taken with studying extra in regards to the Churchill Scholarship ought to contact Benard in MIT Profession Advising and Skilled Growth.
