Building a decentralized bank for micro businesses in Latin America
Alumni-founded Quipu Market offers loans and other financial services to entrepreneurs through its online marketplace.
Alumni-founded Quipu Market offers loans and other financial services to entrepreneurs through its online marketplace.
MIT Refugee Action Hub event convene learners, activists, and educators from around the world in storytelling and collaboration.
MIT political science master’s student Milain Fayulu is building brands to bring change to his home country.
Field experiment in Bangladesh shows the poor simply lack opportunities to gain wealth — but a one-time boost can make a major difference.
The $100K Entrepreneurship Competition has inspired students to bring the model to regions across the globe.
PhD student Paige Bollen finds urban street networks that encourage encounters among strangers link to lower ethnic tensions and anti-immigrant hostility.
Cannabinoid receptors help the brain’s dopamine system establish key connections after birth, a new mouse study suggests.
Empowering a global community of learners in displacement.
The Practical Education Network cultivates a version of MIT’s hands-on teaching methodology in low-resource communities.
MIT spinout Safi Organics uses farmers’ crop residue to make an organic fertilizer that can increase yields and improve soil health.
MIT senior Ayomikun Ayodeji seeks to expand access to reliable, affordable energy in his home country of Nigeria, and beyond.
MIT field experiment from India finds a one-time economic boost helps the very poor fare better for at least a decade.
Infection during pregnancy with elevated levels of the cytokine IL-17a may yield microbiome alterations that prime offspring for aberrant immune responses, mouse study suggests.
By temporarily suspending retinal activity in the non-amblyopic eye of animal models, neuroscientists restrengthen the visual response in the "lazy" eye, even at ages after the critical period when patch therapy fails.
Master’s student Pavarin Bhandtivej seeks to bring data to bear on policymaking in Thailand.