Improving sanitation for the world’s most vulnerable people
With deep roots at MIT, the startup change:WATER Labs has created a toilet that treats waste without water or power.
With deep roots at MIT, the startup change:WATER Labs has created a toilet that treats waste without water or power.
MIT junior faculty explore new research directions and achieve powerful career advancement enabled by J-WAFS’ mission-driven grant program focused on water and food solutions.
Program aims to increase research opportunities and give PhD students mentorship experience.
Guillermo Toral PhD '20 finds health care quality drops in months leading up to mayoral elections, and if the incumbent loses, the quality continues to fall.
During virtual celebration, alumni attest to transformative reach of MIT Global Startup Labs.
Fourth annual social impact pitch event gathered global Solve community to connect, collaborate, and meet the 2020 Solver Class.
A team of MIT researchers is using the thermodynamic properties of water evaporation to bring off-grid cold storage of produce to remote, arid regions.
Teaching community organizers via WhatsApp yields encouraging results in South Africa, according to MIT Governance Lab research.
J-PAL research center will focus on evidence-based policy-making to reduce poverty in the Middle East and North Africa.
Event convened attendees from around the world to discuss impacts of the pandemic and advance solutions to pressing global problems.
MIT D-Lab and local community partners to deliver virtual trainings on making masks, hand sanitizer, vertical gardens, and portable chicken coops.
MIT Governance Lab and the Institute for Governance Reform, working with the government of Sierra Leone, conduct rapid-response surveys to address Covid-19.
Tech-based solutions sought for challenges in work environments, education for girls and women, maternal and newborn health, and sustainable food.
The first cohort of 22 students from 14 countries share a common ambition: harnessing data to help others.
Mgcini "Keith" Phuthi ’19, a native Zimbabwean, uses his experiences at MIT to develop improvements in education policy in Sierra Leone through MISTI-Africa.