Haiti

“One of things historians do," says MIT Associate Professor Tanalís Padilla (top right), "is analyze how systems of power are constructed — state power, corporate power, racist power — and what role different institutions play in that.” Clockwise from upper left: Craig Steven Wilder, Padilla, Malick Ghachem, Lerna Ekmekçioğlu.

The task of history

At community dialogue, MIT historians discuss the power of historical knowledge to make a better world.

May 22, 2018

How Haiti helps us think differently about history

MIT historian Malick Ghachem gets readers and students to look anew at the Atlantic world.

December 5, 2017

Google has teamed with Michel DeGraff's Kreyòl-based STEM education project in Haiti, to add scientific and technical terms to the Kreyòl module of Google Translate.

MIT-Haiti, Google team up to boost education in Kreyòl

Institute-led effort to create STEM lexicon is now available for global translation.

October 30, 2017

The 2017 DUE Infinite Mile Award winners: (left to right) Tyrene Jones, Jeanne Hillery, Dean Dennis Freeman, Latasha Boyd, Melissa Martin-Greene, Michael Bergren, Elizabeth Vogel Taylor, Lauren McKown, and Katherine Wahl.

Dean for Undergraduate Education announces 2017 Infinite Mile Award recipients

Annual celebration of excellence honors staff for contributions on behalf of students, the department, and the Institute.

June 20, 2017

"One of the principal ways historians contribute to problem-solving work at MIT and elsewhere is by helping to identify what the real problem is in the first place," says Malick Ghachem, an MIT professor of history. "When we understand and articulate the roots and sources of a problem, we have a much better chance of actually solving it."

3 Questions: How history helps us solve today's issues

Professor Malick Ghachem discusses how historians contribute to problem-solving by identifying the roots and sources of a problem.

February 28, 2017

“I think the flexibility of having the opportunity to discover what you're interested in, to pursue these things, and to create a space for yourself where you can feel comfortable was what drove me to MIT,” Larissa Senatus says.

Larissa Senatus learns about the world by doing

Mechanical engineering major hopes to bring hands-on learning opportunities home to Haiti.

January 13, 2016

"Kreyòl pale, kreyòl konprann," by artist cooperative Kalfou Richès, was a gift to the MIT-Haiti Initiative. The title translates to: “When Kreyòl is spoken, Kreyòl speakers understand.”

Haitian educators and MIT faculty develop Kreyòl-based teaching tools

Project led by linguist Michel DeGraff is revolutionizing education in Haiti, and serving as a model for similar projects around the world.

October 7, 2015

3 Questions: Michel DeGraff on Haiti’s new policy for teaching in Kreyòl

MIT scholar, and advocate of native-language instruction, backs linguistic change.

July 20, 2015

Professor Deborah Ancona, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, Professor Michel DeGraff

A new leadership model for a new Haiti

Prime minister and cabinet members attend leadership workshop with MIT professors.

August 4, 2014

MIT Sloan hosts Haitian prime minister

Laurent Lamothe visits MIT to plan the next stage of an initiative that addresses poverty, education, and recovery efforts after the country's 2010 earthquake.

June 12, 2014

The work of MIT anthropologist Erica Caple James focuses on, as she puts it, “critical junctures at which human life, liberty, and equality are bound or constrained by institutions — whether for good or ill.”

The anthropology of humanitarianism

Anthropologist Erica James examines the effectiveness of aid to those on the margins of society.

May 1, 2014

From left to right: Director of MIT's Office of Educational Innovation and Technology Vijay Kumar, MIT Provost Chris Kaiser, Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, MIT Linguistics Professor Michel DeGraff and Haiti Minister of National Education and Vocational Training Vanneur Pierre at the signing of a joint commitment to an initiative for digital learning in Kreyòl.

MIT and Haiti sign agreement to promote Kreyòl-language STEM education

Initiative designed to help Haitians gain technical education.

April 17, 2013

David Young MBA ’13 (left) and Francisco Aguilar MBA ’12.

Photo finish: Sloanies team up to create Bounce Imaging

Low-cost camera targeted for first responders, military

November 21, 2012

Michel DeGraff, Associate Professor of Linguistics

Q&A: Michel DeGraff on teaching STEM in Kreyòl

A model for reaching science-hungry students around the world who speak local languages

October 25, 2012

DeGraff awarded $1 million NSF grant to continue linguistics research in Haiti

Funding will help develop classroom tools to teach science and math in Creole for the first time.

October 3, 2012

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