Sage Widder ’26

Through these courses she has developed skills in computational modeling, lab research, and analytical writing. She is also a visual artist and spends much of her time drawing and painting, and two of her pieces are displayed in Green Hall. Her academic background is complemented by her involvement in research projects, such as working at the Media lab developing materials for sustainable electronics and in the Furst lab at MIT learning lab techniques while working on electrochemistry and cell-tracking research. Most recently she worked at the Marks lab at HMS where she learned how to apply machine learning models to predict mutations in viruses. On campus she is also a member of EnAct, a student-led organization which coordinates volunteer events and works to promote environmental justice, and Regen student farm, which organizes community events around gardening and harvesting crops. She plans to pursue a graduate degree using math and computation to understand and make predictions about complex biological or environmental systems, and hopes to find ways to incorporate her experience in the arts and humanities into her future projects.