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Sun-powered desalination for villages in India
Off-grid Indian communities with salty groundwater could get potable water through a proposed solar technique.
Successful MIT Global Startup Labs alum visits campus
Olumide Ogunlana, co-founder of PrepClass, shares his experience participating in the Institute's international startup program.
Fifth edition of Building Global Innovators announces selection of startups
21 startups joining the accelerator will vie for four Caixa Capital Awards worth up to 500,000 euros in financial support.
GEARing technology for developing markets
Amos Winter designs, builds, and delivers products for underserved populations around the world.
Building up bamboo
MIT researchers study bamboo for engineered building material, similar to plywood.
Nine MIT students and alumni win Fulbright grants
Grant-winners will spend the 2014-2015 academic year conducting research or academic studies abroad.
A "maker" education
NuVu Studio takes high school students out of the classroom and into a design space to invent and create.
Three D-Lab alumni selected as 2014 Echoing Green Fellows
Fellowship recipients were selected from an applicant pool of nearly 2,900.
Graduate student Kaitlin Goldstein dies in India
Fourth-year student in architecture had been missing since a morning run on June 14.
MIT’s Mobile Fab Lab participates in White House Maker Faire
Obama tours MIT-developed trailer containing digital fabrication, design, and manufacturing tools.
Solving the world’s plastic problem
Alumna invents continuous, zero-toxic-emission system that converts nonrecycled plastics into crude oil.
D-Lab Scale-Ups awards $60,000 to three MIT social entrepreneurs
Sidhant Pai, Zehra Ali, and Matthew Orosz to receive funding and mentorship over 12-month fellowship.
Robert Millard ’73 elected chair of the MIT Corporation
Corporation member and alumnus succeeds John Reed; other elections announced.