When he matriculated in 2019 as a graduate student, Raúl Mojica Soto-Albors was no stranger to MIT. He’d spent time here on multiple occasions as an undergraduate at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, including eight months in 2018 as a displaced student after Hurricane Maria in 2017. Those experiences — including participating in the MIT Summer Research Bio Program (MSRP-Bio), which offers a funded summer research experience to underrepresented minorities and other underserved students — not only changed his course of study; they also empowered him to pursue…
