Keeping health care clean
Startup’s smart devices track hand-washing in hospitals to help reduce the spread of infection.
MISTI: The global internship program
MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) matches MIT students to internships with corporate partners around the world.
3Q: Hacking Ebola health care
More than 100 spend a weekend devising better personal protections, diagnostics, and medical records in the face of a deadly disease.
MIT launches “Solve” to galvanize action on solving the world’s great challenges
Leaders to gather for keystone event at MIT next October.
M+Visión Consortium wins Spanish industry association prize
Madrid-MIT collaboration recognized for accelerating health technology innovation.
MIT Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative launches
Inaugural event, “Examining Ebola,” probes the current global public health emergency from multiple disciplinary perspectives.
Hacking health care
PhD student Andrea Ippolito improves health care through engineering, entrepreneurship, and systems design.
Said and Done for October 2014
Digest of the MIT humanities, arts, and social sciences features a Nobel Prize, a new professorship in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, three new SHASS websites, and more.
No more crying over spilled milk
“Make The Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon” brings tech out of the bubble and into the bottle.
3 Questions: Jonathan Gruber on the cost of smoking
Leading health care economist weighs in on a proposed cost-benefit analysis of smoking.
Caught in the social safety net
Andrea Campbell gives a firsthand perspective on the effects of means-tested social insurance programs.
An end to drug errors?
Mint Solutions tackles medication errors with scanning system that ensures patients get the right pills.
Mental-health monitoring goes mobile
Startup Ginger.io analyzes smartphone data to remotely predict when patients with mental illnesses are symptomatic.
Keeping it simple (for a bioinformatician)
Alumnus strikes delicate balances in big data — helping define the future of health care.
How a new approach to funding Alzheimer’s research could pay off
Model indicates that diverse research approaches to the disease would be a rewarding investment.