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James Levi Schmidt, a member of an MIT class on wheelchair design for the developing world, tests a prototype of a wheelchair that was converted into a tricycle powered by hand-operated pedals.

On a roll: Students help bring mobility to developing countries

May 21, 2008

Disarmament expert sees U.S.-Iran solution

May 19, 2008

MIT student Kendra Johnson, right, conducts a coliform test with a young resident of Santa Ana, Ecuador. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('ecuador-filter-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')"><span onmouseover="this.className='cursorChange';"><strong>Open image gallery</strong></span></a><noscript> <a href="ecuador-filter-enlarged.html"><em>(no JavaScript)</em></a></noscript>

Art + technology = clean water in Ecuador

May 14, 2008

MIT students propose X-Prizes for health

New collaboration with foundation yields innovative ideas

May 13, 2008

China Forum lecture series begins May 14

May 7, 2008

Adjunct Professor of the Humanities in the Program in Writing Alan Lightman sits in the mosque built by his and his wife's Harpswell Foundation with villagers, Muslim Chams (of the San Cham sect).

A dream come true: Lightman lights up future for Cambodians

May 7, 2008

An image in Tambo de Mora, Peru, which was hit hard by last year's magnitude 8 earthquake.

An earthquake's aftermath

MIT class works to get Peruvian town back on its foundations

April 30, 2008

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards gives one of the opening keynote addresses at a student-organized conference on global poverty held at MIT April 18-20.

Edwards urges students to make themselves heard

Conference hears about ways to fight global poverty

April 18, 2008

An artist's rendering of the proposed carbon-neutral community being developed in Abu Dhabi.

A blueprint for no carbon footprint

April 16, 2008

Student conference targets global poverty

April 16, 2008

Ford International Professor of History and Pulitzer Prize winner John Dower delivers the Killian lecture at Kirsch Auditorium on Monday, April 7.

Dower probes 'cultures of war' in Killian award lecture

April 9, 2008

MIT students work with villagers in Ghana on a water survey. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('itw-ghana-1-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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What is good water worth?

April 8, 2008

Dower to deliver Killian Award lecture April 7

April 2, 2008

Two MIT student projects win peace grants

April 1, 2008

MIT launches global network of supply chain centers

MIT Global SCALE Network spans North America, Latin America and Europe

March 27, 2008

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