Affordable prosthetics and orthotics to rival the world’s best devices
Rise Bionics, founded by D-Lab Scale Ups fellow Arun Cherian, creates customized assistive devices for patients in India.
Rise Bionics, founded by D-Lab Scale Ups fellow Arun Cherian, creates customized assistive devices for patients in India.
Students in 21H.S04 explore stories of students and faculty from South Asia via oral histories and the Institute Archives/Distinctive Collections.
Roots Studio, founded by Rebecca Hui SM ’17, helps rural communities license their art to brands around the world.
Doctoral student Blair Read links rise of private education in India to local political competition, signaling potential erosion of public services.
Novel communications infrastructure from the MIT Civic Design Initiative aims to support communities on the front lines of the climate crisis.
Polish journalist Ada Petriczko, an Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow at MIT, discusses ethical and cross-border journalism, freedom of speech, and the rise of autocracy.
MIT field experiment from India finds a one-time economic boost helps the very poor fare better for at least a decade.
Senior Shardul Chiplunkar aims to be a translator between the tech world and the rest of society.
MISTI Career Conversations virtual lunch series sees MIT students explore environmental, social, and governance initiatives in a global context across three key sectors.
With a double major in linguistics and computer science, senior Rujul Gandhi works to surmount language and cultural barriers, globally and on campus.
This year’s projects address mobile evaporative vegetable preservation, portable water filtration, and dairy waste reduction.
Experiment with working poor in India finds no impact from more night sleep, though naps help; rest quality may be key.
PhD student Sidhant Pai works on atmospheric chemistry models that may help policymakers improve air quality in their region.
MIT’s president writes to the community in the wake of new pandemic suffering unfolding in India, and increasingly across South Asia.
Jessica Xu, a senior studying mechanical engineering, draws upon her skills as an artist to develop medical devices and assistive technologies.