D-Lab appoints Bob Nanes to new position of executive director
Nanes brings to D-Lab 30 years of experience on four continents in technology, innovation, supply chains, and microfinance.
Nanes brings to D-Lab 30 years of experience on four continents in technology, innovation, supply chains, and microfinance.
Professor of mechanical engineering brings a long association with D-Lab and a commitment to design for the developing world.
Fellows work on low-cost microgrids, prosthetics made from cane, hands-on STEM education in Ghana, and a rechargeable headlamp for rural Indian farmers.
MIT political scientist Andrea Campbell discusses the impact of equity on health care innovation and outcomes.
PhD student Cauam Cardoso assesses technologies that aim to help the world’s poor.
Selected state and local governments will receive support from J-PAL North America at MIT to improve the effectiveness of social programs.
MIT Corporation life member and global entrepreneur honored for his history of service and philanthropy at MIT.
Actor and filmmaker tells graduates: "There’s more at stake today than in any story ever told."
It’s no act: MIT 2016 Commencement speaker reflects on the “fun” of his activism and philanthropy.
Migrants pay more for their home region’s cuisine, even when on the edge of malnutrition.
Project to provide children with tablets loaded with literacy apps reports encouraging results in Africa, U.S.
MIT economic historian Anne McCants discusses the connection between innovation and opportunity.
Program will feature advances in technologies at the nexus of food, water, and the environment.
In unprecedented detail, lifespan gap shown to be large and growing rapidly.
More than 40 speakers from MIT and around the world will be featured in plenary and breakout sessions in this fourth-annual conference on innovation in poverty alleviation.