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Researchers are systematically exploring a variety of alternative packaging materials and containers to see which work best, and most cost-effectively, at reducing losses in food aid. Pictured are food aid bags in a Texas warehouse.

Reducing spoilage in food aid shipments

Large-scale tests compare damage from insects and moisture using a variety of containers.

January 6, 2017

MIT Portugal Program faculty and PhD students stand with visitors (front row, from left to right) Portuguese Consul General in Boston José Rui Velez Caroço, Minister of the Economy Manuel Caldeira Cabral, Dean of the MIT School of Engineering Ian A. Waitz, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal Robert Sherman, and MIT Portugal Program Director Bruce Tidor.

Portuguese government and biotech representatives visit MIT

U.S. Ambassador to Portugal and the Portuguese Minister of Economy discuss transatlantic cooperation with Europe in the biotechnology sector.

January 4, 2017

Solve launches new challenges on climate, education, and health care

MIT’s open innovation platform for tackling global problems seeks solutions from near and far.

January 4, 2017

A tweet noting "The Simpsons"' prediction of a Nobel Prize for Professor Bengt Holmström was @MIT's most popular to date.

Top tweets of 2016

Best posts on @MIT touch on LIGO discoveries, Nobel laureate Bengt Holmström, Apollo pioneer Margaret Hamilton, Commencement speaker Matt Damon, and more.

December 30, 2016

“The alumni scene in Hong Kong is thriving,” says Julian Lee ’97, former president of the MIT Club of Hong Kong, who estimates about 600 alumni live in the region. “We are very excited about the growing MIT presence here. It is re-energizing innovation.”

At home in Hong Kong

Growing MIT presence in the region energizes students, faculty, and alumni.

December 13, 2016

3Q: Charles Sodini on MIT’s Hong Kong Innovation Node

Entering its second year, collaborative effort will soon launch a second program.

December 13, 2016

A new study estimates that, since 2008, access to mobile-money services — which allow users to store and exchange monetary values via mobile phone — increased daily per capita consumption levels of 194,000, or roughly 2 percent, of Kenyan households, lifting them out of extreme poverty (living on less than $1.25 per day).

Study: Mobile-money services lift Kenyans out of poverty

Greater access to services raises daily spending, especially among female-headed households.

December 8, 2016

MAX, a fledgling Nigerian startup, is trying to solve the problem of so-called “last-mile delivery” in cities where many people don’t have an address. Company co-founder Adetayo Bamiduro MBA ’15 will tell MAX’s story to a London audience at an upcoming MIT conference on entrepreneurship and finance in the developing world.

In London, extending MIT’s entrepreneurial ecosystem

Five events build connections between industry, startups, governments, faculty members, and financiers.

December 5, 2016

MIT Climate CoLab's Laur Hesse Fisher (third from right) speaks at a Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance COP 22 side event on Nov. 15.

How online tools and open innovation can support implementation of Paris Agreement goals

MIT Climate CoLab presents an innovative approach at the UN international climate talks in Marrakech, Morocco.

November 29, 2016

A destructive wildfire burned through Canada’s Northern Alberta region, razing neighborhoods in Fort McMurray and displacing tens of thousands of residents.

Climate models may be overestimating the cooling effect of wildfire aerosols

Study finds accounting for year-to-year variability enables more accurate projections of climate change and its impacts.

November 29, 2016

Left to right: Carlos Gonçalves, MIT Portugal visiting student; Shenghua Wu, MIT Portugal visiting Scholar; Carolina Furtado, MIT Portugal visiting student; Manuel Heitor, Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal; Gonçalo Pereira, MIT postdoc; and Golnar Hejazi, MIT Portugal visiting student.

Manuel Heitor, Portuguese minister for science, technology, and higher education, visits MIT

Visit aims to strengthen the scientific and technological cooperation between Portugal and the United States.

November 18, 2016

The MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program is increasing its global connections with new sponsors and funding board members like Accel, Longview Partners, and Grupo VITRI. Students new to startups and those with more experience can both benefit from funding, mentorship, and a growing network of expertise.

MIT Sandbox doubles down on student innovation

Program adds global sponsors, welcomes more than 100 new teams.

November 16, 2016

The TechCon conference, hosted by MIT and USAID's Higher Education Solutions Network from Nov. 10 - 12, convened researchers and innovators to collaborate on solving global issues.

At TechCon, science-based solutions for world issues

Innovators and researchers tackle global issues through actionable research and collaboration.

November 15, 2016

Makers and innovators collaborate at the August 2016 MIT Entrepreneurship Bootcamp. Applications are now invited for the MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in Brisbane, Australia, March 26-31, 2017.

Entrepreneurship Down Under

Australia will host the next MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp.

November 14, 2016

Zixiao Yin is a 2016-2017 Samuel Tak Lee Graduate Fellow and student in urban studies and planning.

Tackling Chinese urban development

Samuel Tak Lee Graduate Fellow Zixiao Yin plans to serve communities back home in Inner Mongolia.

November 4, 2016

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