Volunteering, outreach, public service

MIT senior and biology major Anjali Thakkar at the TIMtalks event on Wednesday night.

TIMtalks spotlight students who have turned failure into success

Event gives students an opportunity to discuss failure, achievement, MIT culture.

May 18, 2012

The Number Six Club, the winning team of the 2012 FSILG&D Community Service Challenge. Representing the team, L-R: Eyas Sharaiha '13, Nina Jreige '13, Deema Totah '12, Angelique Nehmzow '14.

Rising to the Challenge

Number Six wins second annual FSILG&D Community Service Challenge

May 14, 2012

The OpenIR team, working to bring greater environmental information to maps by utilizing infrared data, wins an award to further their work.

Innovative IDEAS

13 winning teams present projects at annual awards celebration.

May 4, 2012

The 'Fashion Show; winner with several other Sidney-Pacific residents

Sidney-Pacific residents donate 450 pounds of clothing in spring clothing drive and fashion show

May 4, 2012

collage of images depicting science research

MIT launches student-produced educational video initiative

Original short videos, in collaboration with Khan Academy, aim to fuel K-12 students’ interest in engineering and science.

April 25, 2012

Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering students at the 2012 ANS Student Conference at which MIT was announced as the 2013 Conference host. From left to right: (standing) Will Boyd, Mark Reed, Giancarlo Lenci, Koroush Shrivan, Ekaterina Paramonova; (seated) Brad Black, Elliot Fray, Sara Ferry, Rosemary Sugrue, Brittany Guyer, Sam Shaner and Alex Salazar; (not pictured) Lulu Li.

MIT to host 2013 American Nuclear Society Student Conference

April 23, 2012

Kate Mytty, right, facilitates the IDEAS Global Challenge. She poses here with 2011 competition participant and MIT graduate student Greg Tao, left, and D-Lab Project Director Saida Benhayoune, center.

IDEAS Global Challenge coordinator discusses intersection of innovation and public service

Facilitated by Kate Mytty, competition will award up to $10,000 per team next month.

April 20, 2012

Jane He tutoring Emmanuel DeBarros in critical reading during the Sunday Sessions of Amphibious Achievement.

Donations from Community Giving at MIT advance work of nonprofits and volunteers

April 10, 2012

In January, members of the True Africa team spoke with market vendors at Asigamé, the main outdoor marketplace of Lomé, Togo.

IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: True Africa

Improving access to local businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa

April 9, 2012

During the month of January, Bilikiss Adebiyi MBA '12 traveled to Nigeria to conduct market research and organize two recycling demo days in the community. Here, residents of Ajegunle, Lagos, exchanged recyclables for raffle tickets and anxiously await the calling of the winners.

IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: wecyclers

Incentivizing recycling in the slums of Nigeria

March 27, 2012

During January, Essmart began demonstrating solar lanterns in southern Indian rural shops. Two stores sold 17 demonstration items in one week. Solar lanterns are among the products that Essmart seeks to distribute to rural shop owners in India.

IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: Essmart

Improving access to vital technologies in rural India

March 8, 2012

A girl dumps spoiled produce and inedible food clippings in a waste storage area at Azadpur market outside of Delhi. Millions of tons of food go to waste in India each year due to spoilage and other problems.

Sustainable approaches to reducing food waste in India

February 28, 2012

Surrounded by local disaster relief volunteers, Morgan and Caitria O’Neill, center, began developing recovers.org, an innovative recovery platform, last summer in the wake of a tornado that ravaged their hometown — and their own home — in western Massachusetts.

IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: Recovers.org

Out of a crisis that struck close to home, sisters develop innovative disaster relief solution.

February 24, 2012

Navajo Middle School — where senior Joe Conte developed an outer space unit for the school's sixth-grade science class — sits on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico.

A four-week commitment, a long-lasting impact

11 MIT students participate in Four Weeks for America over IAP

February 23, 2012

MBA students raise funds for several charities

February 21, 2012

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