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Professor of mechanical engineering Amos Winter (left) and graduate students Natasha Wright (on ladder) and Georgia Van de Zande assemble their desalination system a day before the USAID Desal Prize competition, which they won.

Cleaning water without the grid

MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly increase the groundwater available for drinking in Indian villages.

February 16, 2016

"Even when you have great technology, you need some incentive for people to reduce pollution. We need to find ways to make the benefit of reducing pollution felt by the ones who are paying the cost of reducing pollution." —Ariel Zucker, MIT doctoral student in economics

Incentives matter

Working with the Tata Center, two MIT economics students are testing projects to reduce industrial pollution in India.

January 29, 2016

CLIx will offer young people, especially from lower- and middle-income rural areas of India, access to interactive, hands-on learning experiences to advance their knowledge and skills, and to instill values to help them succeed as professionals and citizens, with a focus on cultivating students’ sense of professionalism.

MIT joins collaboration to bring connected learning experiences to Indian students and teachers

Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx) will integrate technology for active learning in secondary schools.

January 27, 2016

This GridForm model of a village in Bihar, India, shows the optimal layout of hardware for the load profiles of the community. Each building, color-coded by the cost (in Indian rupees) of supplying electricity to that structure, is wired to a central generation/storage node (solid lines), and the nodes are connected to each other (dotted lines).

Going off grid: Tata researchers tackle rural electrification

At MIT’s Tata Center for Technology and Design, researchers are exploring ways to extend electricity access to rural communities in India using microgrids.

January 21, 2016

The team poses at a waterworks in Maharashtra, India, with local partners.

Envisioning the future of water for 900 million people

Research from an MIT Tata Center team led by Professor James Wescoat is making strategic planning of India's rural water systems possible for the first time.

November 20, 2015

Solve Fuel at MIT, 2015

Fueling solutions

“Fuel” pillar at MIT Solve underscores energy’s crucial role in solving humanity’s biggest challenges.

October 26, 2015

A "Working with Partners" panel discussed unique relationships that have formed between MIT Tata Center teams and on-the-ground partners in India.

Bringing MIT and India closer together

Tata Center Annual Symposium explores many pathways for MIT research to have an impact in India and the developing world.

October 21, 2015

Natalia Rigol

Making banking effective for the poor

In India, PhD student Natalia Rigol aims to tap into community knowledge to vet loan and grant applicants.

October 20, 2015

(Left to right) MIT Professor Angela Belcher moderates a panel discussion on climate change, which included Daniel Zarrilli, director of the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency in New York City, and John Bolduc, an environmental planner for Cambridge.

How to bring clean, efficient energy to the world

Solve conference explores better ways to provide power, water, and food to billions of people.

October 7, 2015

Eshita Dayani from the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad and Jonars Spielberg from MIT CITE interview a local resident about his water quality and water filter usage in Ahmedabad, India.

MIT-USAID program releases evaluation of water filters

Study of water filters used in Indian homes assesses suitability, scalability, and sustainability.

October 6, 2015

An ''atmospheric brown cloud'' of manmade aerosols produced by agricultural (marked in red) and other fires may reduce monsoon-related rainfall and crop yields in central India.

Messing with the monsoon

Study: Manmade aerosols can alter rainfall in the world’s most populous region.

September 30, 2015

A man delivers pails of fresh milk to customers in rural India.

Saving rural India’s “liquid cash”

MIT spinout’s milk-chillers reduce spoilage and boost yields in villages.

September 7, 2015

Tata Fellows pose with residents of a village in Satara District, Maharashtra, India.

India at the deep end

Incoming Tata Fellows get a crash course on resource-constrained communities and the challenges of the developing world.

August 31, 2015

Yashraj Narang SM '13 (right) conducted a comprehensive survey of above-knee amputees in India to understand their unique user-needs and the performance of their current prostheses.

A cheaper, high-performance prosthetic knee

Researchers design cheap prosthetic knee that mimics normal walking motion.

July 31, 2015

Reshmaan Hussam

Understanding economic behavior through hygiene

PhD student Reshmaan Hussam’s study of Bangladeshis’ economic behavior leads to research on hand-washing.

July 23, 2015