Young African leaders propose paths to prosperity for the continent
Members of Youth Think Tank meet with Legatum Center staff and fellows at MIT.
Graduate student David Sengeh gives back to Sierra Leone
Media Lab doctoral student created a competition to help youth in his home country create their own solutions.
Sanergy, led by Legatum Center alumni fellows, wins social innovation award
Aims to develop sustainable sanitation services in urban slums
Bringing the world to innovation
With up to $25 million in new USAID funding, MIT’s D-Lab will gain greater ability to help people in the developing world find their own solutions.
MIT a linchpin of major new USAID program
Institute researchers aim to spur development and evaluation of useful technologies to help the world’s poor.
Fear of failure
Recent Legatum Center workshop discusses fear, and examines ways to overcome it in entrepreneurial pursuits.
D-Lab Scale-Ups program offers $20,000 in seed funds to MIT alumni social entrepreneurs
Proposals for 'Phase II' one-year fellowships due Oct. 5
Ekaterina Paramonova: A nuclear networker
Undergraduate on a unique career track that intriguingly combines nuclear engineering and diplomacy.
Legatum Center's Modak wins Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship
Given to individuals who wish to study music as a cultural force of expression.
In The World: Helping Brazilians turn waste into products
International summit fosters ways of producing everything from food to flooring, using discarded materials.
Inspired ideas to improve the world
School of Architecture + Planning students win thousands in grants for business startups
The future of global investing, the future of cities
Two of several sessions from the Center for Real Estate's recent International Real Estate Forum.
