Celebrating 15 years of innovating for the greater good
MIT IDEAS Global Challenge has helped launch 128 student-led projects around the world.
MIT IDEAS Global Challenge has helped launch 128 student-led projects around the world.
Emerging Worlds, a Media Lab and Tata Center initiative, seeks to catalyze change on a massive scale.
Aviation is “a critical link in solving worldwide environmental challenges,” says MIT professor.
Comparative charts enhance solar lantern purchasing decisions in the developing world.
Research from an MIT Tata Center team led by Professor James Wescoat is making strategic planning of India's rural water systems possible for the first time.
Study of water filters used in Indian homes assesses suitability, scalability, and sustainability.
Thirteen grants awarded to MIT faculty and researchers from four different schools.
Novel research project produces the first map of an informal transportation system in Nairobi.
Researchers design cheap prosthetic knee that mimics normal walking motion.
MIT students launch social enterprises that work with communities to foster financial and environmental sustainability.
PhD student Natasha Wright makes water safe to drink for rural, off-grid Indian villages.
2015 fellows include MIT alumni and members of the International Development Innovation Network working in Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Annual summit expands to three sessions, focused on recycling, health care, and empowering desert communities.
Continuing work begun on a D-Lab trip, Kung aims to reduce the costs and labor required to produce compost toilets in El Salvador.