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Art + STEM

Our alumni explore art and design’s interdisciplinary collaboration with Science/Technology/Engineering/Math (STEM).

MICA’s focus on integrative education means that graduates emerge from college future-ready, with agile thinking abilities and problem-solving skills that allow them to thrive across fields and disciplines.

Among sites around the country where MICA has partnered for curricular projects, students and alums have landed internships and jobs at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, American Institute of Physics, IBM Research, Google, Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Microsoft, and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, among others.

Aleks Bogunovic

Aleks is founder and CEO of Aerothreads, an SBA Certified HUBZone and Woman Owned Small Business specializing in Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) blanket products for the aerospace industry.

Read About Aleks and Aerothreads

Julie Buisson

Julie co-founded the agricultural development business Modernature, and designed the curriculum for the Growing Futures CTE Hydroponic Farm at the Phillips Programs for Children and Families campus in Laurel, Maryland.

Read About Julie and Modernature

Shangtong Li

Shangtong is a fellow at Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank focused on cultivating rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate policy for coastal cities.

Herschel Ruben

Herschel is founder of Compressent Co., creating products to help neurodivergent people regulate their sensory overload in a way that does not stigmatize them.

Read About Herschel and Compressent Co.

Winston Frazer

Winston is co-founder and CEO of Danae, Inc., a digital manufacturing service provider that offers 3D printing, computer-aided design, and optimization for additive manufacturing. The company’s 3D printed prosthetic covers for amputees were featured in the Smithsonian Institution show Futures.

Katherine Nammacher

Katherine is co-founder and CEO of the start-up, RideAlong, which supplies a software that gives patrol officers at scene key information about people with mental illness.

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