MIT PhD students honored for their work to solve critical issues in water and food
Gokul Sampath and Jie Yun have been named 2023-24 J-WAFS Fellows.
Gokul Sampath and Jie Yun have been named 2023-24 J-WAFS Fellows.
MIT D-Lab workshops equip refugees in Greece and elsewhere with the skills and confidence to solve problems in their communities.
Fake seeds can cost farmers more than two-thirds of expected crop yields and threaten food security. Trackable silk labels could help.
Flavio Emilio Vila Skrzypek, a graduate student in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, wants to design cities without inequities.
Fortifying foods with new polymer particles containing vitamin A could promote better vision and health for millions of people.
Associate Professor Mai Hassan documents bureaucratic systems in Eastern Africa set up for coercion, as well as roadblocks to democratic government.
J-WAFS Fellows discuss their inspiration for pursuing challenges in water and food systems.
MIT Energy Initiative Annual Research Conference highlights both opportunities and obstacles in the race to a net-zero future.
Associate Professor Noah Nathan is generating a body of scholarship on the political impacts of urbanization throughout the global South.
Skills learned in the classroom are applied toward health and sanitation projects.
Deeply respected advisor, educator, mentor, and former department head was a founding member of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and committed to helping others rise out of poverty.
An interdisciplinary team is developing a mobile health platform that uses AI to detect infection in Cesarean section wounds.
MITdesignX presents ventures from the accelerator's sixth cohort.
The Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability — a project supported by Community Jameel — will study the implications of climate change on food security as they relate to trade.
CassVita, founded by an MIT alumnus, has created a biotechnology to increase the shelf life of cassava, a nutritious but perishable root vegetable.