MISTI 2.0 selects first winners
Three projects from engineering, one from humanities, arts, and social sciences receive funding.
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Data points of light
MIT’s undergraduates fight poverty one statistic at a time, thanks to coordination between the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
Saving labor
Political scientist Richard Locke says our system of improving factory conditions around the world is broken.
He proposes a new solution.
He proposes a new solution.
'Genius' grant for MIT economist
Esther Duflo receives MacArthur Fellowship for transformative work on economic development; has brought field experiments to studies of poverty around the world
Out of darkness, sight
By studying rare cases of restored vision in older children and young adults, MIT neuroscientists are figuring out how the brain learns to see.
