D-Lab Scale-Ups awards $100,000 to five social entrepreneurs
2015 fellows include MIT alumni and members of the International Development Innovation Network working in Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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Charles Correa, influential architect and planner, dies at 84
“India’s Greatest Architect” left his mark on MIT and the world.
Five MIT students win MISTI Excellence Awards
Flagship international education program salutes emerging global citizens.
Teaching development skills on three continents
Annual summit expands to three sessions, focused on recycling, health care, and empowering desert communities.
Bringing microgrids to rural villages
MIT team, working with villagers in India, designs peer-to-peer system to enable local power sharing.
Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship celebrates 50 years
New cohort of fellows to carry on humanitarian tradition at MIT.
An enduring legacy of education and opportunity
The Khorana Program at MIT enables young Indian scientists to thrive.
SuperUROP class of 2015 graduates with high accomplishment and promise
Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart thanks SuperUROP students for their research and innovation contributions; praises program's quintessential "MIT-ness."
Pushing the limits of pump design for small farmers in India
Tata Center team invents the first solar-powered water pump tailored to the irrigation needs of millions of small-acreage farmers in the Ganges River basin.
A “graduation” from poverty
Study: Anti-poverty intervention provides sustained boost to incomes and wealth.
Eight MIT students accept 2015 Fulbright grants
Grantees will spend the 2015-2016 academic year abroad, conducting research or academic studies.
Connecting the masses
Startup’s advertising platform provides free mobile data to prepaid cellphone users in developing countries.
India drift
MIT researchers explain mystery of India’s rapid move toward Eurasia 80 million years ago.
Advancing "lean research" for improved international development
To help alleviate poverty, representatives from MIT D-Lab and Tufts Fletcher School focus on respectful, human-centered research practices in global development.
3 Questions: Amanda Giang on controlling mercury pollution in India and China
MIT graduate student studies how a new U.N. treaty could affect mercury emissions from coal power plants in Asia.