Creative abilities
From Boston to Bangalore, MIT senior Priyanka Saha uses technology to empower people with disabilities.
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MIT one of 32 inaugural partners of Global Development Lab
Launch event on April 3 in New York featured numerous guest speakers, including Hillary Clinton and D-Lab co-founder Amy Smith
A new source for potassium fertilizer
Allanore lab chemically alters feldspar, an ore closer to home for countries that cultivate bananas and other potassium-dependent crops
How to beat others to the mathematical punch
New MITx MOOC brings the street fighting approach to solving math problems.
New video for old problems
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering sponsors a video-making competition for its students.
After the U.S. leaves Afghanistan, then what?
In talk, MIT professor examines the implications of the military drawdown for regional rivals India and Pakistan.
Boosting science, math, technology, and ethics in Tibetan communities
Project aims to create science learning centers in India, while also fostering solar power and clean water.
Vision is key to spatial skills
Neuroscientists find that the ability to imagine spatial structures improves dramatically after blind children’s sight is restored.
Kenya under the microscope
MIT economist Tavneet Suri explores finance, agriculture and even politics in her homeland of Kenya — and elsewhere in Africa.
Predicting the future of global water stress
MIT researchers find that by 2050 more than half the world’s population will live in water-stressed areas and about a billion or more will not have sufficient water resources.
A global community dedicated to alleviating poverty gathers at MIT
JPAL@10 event celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
New role for ‘hunger hormone’
MIT study finds that ghrelin, produced during stressful situations, primes the brain for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Thinking globally
Scholar and administrator Bernd Widdig holds a newly created position at MIT: director of international affairs.
An experiment puts auditing under scrutiny
Unique study reduces pollution in India while calling conventional auditing markets into question.