A professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology is being praised for going out of his way to help a student mom. Troy Littleton, who runs a research lab at MIT, put a travel crib in his lab’s office to help his grad student, Karen Cunningham, who has a 10-month-old daughter.
When Karen brought her baby, Katie, in for the first time recently, Littleton took a photo of the crib and posted it on Twitter, where it quickly went viral. People have been applauding him for taking the step to support the working student mother with work-life balance. “It’s always a challenge being a parent while in graduate school,” he says, “so anything you can do in a lab to facilitate and help out, we try.”
Karen says one of the reasons she chose MIT is that she got a really positive response from the biology department when she brought up that she was going to want to have a baby during grad school. The college offers other resources for working mothers, including campus-based day care, but the extra effort from Littleton is “extremely helpful.”
Source: Good Morning America