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3Q: Hazel Sive on MIT-Africa
...you start by explaining what the MIT-Africa initiative is? A: MIT-Africa began in 2014 as a mechanism to promote and communicate connections between MIT students, faculty, and staff, and African...
3 Questions: Claude Grunitzky MBA '12 on launching TRUE Africa University
...sciences, and Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland, the Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program director, on shaping what would become TRUE Africa, his digital media company focused on championing young African voices all...
To understand race in Africa today, look to the past, panelists say
...launch the MIT Africa Distinguished Visitors program. The distinguished visitors program is sponsored by the Office of the Associate Provost for International Activities and is led by the MIT Africa...
MIT in Africa
...Cape Town, leads J-PAL’s work in sub-Saharan Africa. J-PAL Africa conducts randomized evaluations, builds partnerships for evidence-informed policymaking, and helps partners scale up effective programs. The Abdul Latif Jameel Water...
Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again
...would have to choose one or the other, but when I talked to the [MISTI-Africa] program manager about what I could do in Africa, he mentioned the Sierra Leone opportunity.”...
Empowering the next generation of scientists in Africa
...insight behind the not-for-profit organization Future African Scientist, which is seeking to unleash the scientific potential of the continent by providing African students and early-career scientists with the support they...
MIT builds community for the Africa Takes On Covid-19 challenge
...leveraged the strong network of MIT alumni active in Africa, including, but not limited to, Claude Grunitzky MBA ’12 of True Africa; Aminata Kane MBA ’13, CEO of Orange Sierra Leone;...
New MIT internships expand research opportunities in Africa
...students at universities and leading academic research centers in Africa. This past summer, MISTI supported 10 MIT student interns at African universities, significantly more than in any previous year. “These...
MIT launches the Africa Distinguished Visitors Program
...initiatives between MIT and African collaborators. “This is a milestone moment for MIT in terms of increasing its engagement with Africa, and this new program provides a focus for further...
Emma Gibson: Optimizing health care logistics in Africa
Growing up in South Africa at the turn of the century, Emma Gibson saw the rise of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its devastating impact on her home country, where many...