Fighting poverty with direct cash payments
The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.
The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.
The Massachusetts senator toured MIT.nano and held a roundtable with university leaders to discuss how the new law could advance research and education in the state.
MITdesignX presents ventures from the accelerator's sixth cohort.
President L. Rafael Reif and Vice President for Research Maria Zuber helped shape aspects of the bill, which aims to advance U.S. science.
Natel Energy, founded by sibling MIT alumni, is deploying hydropower systems with fish-safe turbines and other features that mimic natural river conditions.
The MIT Museum director describes how the museum is reinventing itself for the 21st century.
MassRobotics, a nonprofit founded by several MIT alumni, is advancing an industry that will play an increasingly important role in our lives.
CassVita, founded by an MIT alumnus, has created a biotechnology to increase the shelf life of cassava, a nutritious but perishable root vegetable.
The largest graduate residence on MIT’s campus builds communities with its “helper culture.”
Panelists discuss why governance innovation is needed and how it can be sustained in governments and communities.
Piction Health, founded by Susan Conover SM ’15, uses machine learning to help physicians identify and manage skin disease.
MIT spinout Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells made from the deepest holes in the world.
Alumni-founded Quipu Market offers loans and other financial services to entrepreneurs through its online marketplace.
MIT alumni-founded Overjet analyzes and annotates dental X-rays to help dentists offer more comprehensive care.
The five-year collaboration aims to accelerate the translation of breakthrough engineering and biology for human health.