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Graduate student Amos Winter displays a wheelchair model currently being produced in Tanzania at a MacVicar Day exhibit March 3 in the Stata Center. Winter is working on technical solutions to the challenges faced by wheelchair users in that country.

Building a better wheelchair

Grad student aims to help Tanzanians

March 21, 2006

Graduate student Christopher Lowell, who went to Africa as part of Sloan's Global Entrepreneurship Laboratory, takes in the sunrise at Gilman's Peak in Tanzania. He eventually made it to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro with G-Lab partner Zhiying Jiang.

G-Lab students get rewarding experiences around world

March 15, 2006

Sophomore Alia Whitney-Johnson displays some of the beaded jewelry she is selling to help young rape and incest victims in Sri Lanka. She set this table up at the March 3 MacVicar Day celebration at the Stata Center. Whitney-Johnson, a civil and environmental engineering major, taught the girls to make the jewelry.

Sophomore's project aids Sri Lankan girls' home

March 15, 2006

Students participating in the MIT Hosts to International Students program identify their home countries on a globe as MIT staff member Janet Fischer, right, looks on. Since 2002, Fischer has been a host to, from left, Zawadi Lemayian, a freshman from Kenya; Irene Berita Murimi, a junior from Kenya; Smeet Deshmukh, a graduate student from India; and Tendai Chizana, a senior from Zimbabwe.

Host program offers international students home away from home

February 24, 2006

Young inventors to gather at MIT on March 4

February 24, 2006

Ambassadorial visit

February 21, 2006

MIT scientist shares AAAS honor for cooperation

February 17, 2006

Show takes 'Pulse' of African influences

February 15, 2006

Professor sizes up competition in new book

February 8, 2006

On plane to Spain

February 8, 2006

Student-founded Hibur connects MIT with Israeli university

February 8, 2006

Ambassador from Saudi Arabia set to give talk Feb. 16

February 8, 2006

This image shows a sample of the data collected by the SeaBed autonomous underwater vehicle as it swam over the Chios shipwreck in July 2005. The 3-D color mesh represents a topographic map of the sea floor, created using data collected by multibeam sonar. The brown strip shows the area captured in digital images, which were used to create the photomosaic of the wreck. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow(...

Deep-sea robot photographs ancient Greek shipwreck

February 2, 2006

Lab puts poverty programs to the test

January 31, 2006

Andrew Heafitz, an instructor at the Edgerton Center, shows graduate student Olivia Leitermann, in protective gear, how to locate a mine during the IAP session 'MIT Design for Demining,' held Wednesday, Jan. 18.

IAP: Class targets landmine removal

January 17, 2006

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