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PKG Fellowship for Summer 2021

The PKG Fellowships program supports MIT students working on capacity-building social impact and community engagement projects. Students work with community-focused organizations including non-profits and social enterprises. These can include a student’s own social enterprise. What can you do? Follow your passion and collaborate with a community-focused organization!You can create your own project, continue work on an enterprise you already started, or […]

The catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants

“A seed grant for a risky idea that is mission-driven goes a long way.” These are the words of Fadel Adib, an associate professor of media arts and sciences and of electrical engineering and computer science and a 2019 recipient of a two-year seed grant from the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab […]

World Water Day Video Competition: MIT Research for a Water Secure Future

March 22nd is World Water Day, an international day launched by the United Nations to advocate for sustainable water use and equitable water access and inspire people to take action for clean water. J-WAFS is joining this effort through a student video competition and online festival to showcase the exciting water sector research and innovation […]

Call for Proposal: J-WAFS Solutions Program

The J-WAFS Solutions program aims to help MIT researchers commercialize breakthrough technologies and inventions by transforming promising ideas at MIT into innovative products and cutting-edge spinout companies. ($150,000 per year, one year.) J-WAFS Solutions has the mission of moving water and food technologies from labs t MIT into the commercial world, where they will improve […]

MIT Graduate Fellowship Opportunity: 2021 CIS Summer Study Fellowship

Doctoral students may apply for summer support for dissertation research or writing that has an international component. Support may be requested either for fieldwork and/or archival research, or for home-based research and write-up. Grants will not exceed $3,500. The main criteria for determining which proposals will be funded are: 1 – the importance of the research question and the quality […]

Call for proposal: Science of Sustainable Cities

The National Research Foundation (NRF) in Singapore has launched a call for proposal on “Science of Sustainable Cities”. The deadline for the White paper submission is 31 March 2021, 11.59 pm (Singapore Standard Time). The Grant Call Application Guide and White paper Template are found here. Detailed information on the grant call, including the thematic scope and application […]

Call for Proposal: J-WEL 2021 Grant in Education Innovation

Since J-WEL’s Grants in Education Innovation program began in 2017, J-WEL has awarded over $2.8 million in funding to MIT faculty for projects and research in pK-12, Higher Education, and Workforce Learning from many departments at MIT, including Linguistics, Mechanical Engineering, Literature, Architecture, Physics, and more.J-WEL’s 2021 Grants in Education Innovation Call for Proposals is […]

Four MIT students awarded 2022 Schwarzman Scholarships

Three MIT seniors, Alice Ho, Francesca Macchiavello Cauvi, and Ava Waitz, and doctoral student Lucio Milanese have been awarded 2022 Schwarzman Scholarships. They will begin their program at Tsinghua University in Beijing next August. For their one-year master’s program in global affairs, Schwarzman Scholars receive instruction by renowned international faculty, with frequent guest lectures from […]

Meghan Davis named 2022 Mitchell Scholar

MIT senior Meghan Davis has been named one of the 12 winners of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship’s Class of 2022. After graduating next spring with dual majors in biological engineering and urban planning, she will pursue a master’s in global health at Trinity College in Dublin. Mitchell Scholars are selected on the basis of […]

3 Questions: Anat Biletzki on the Human Rights and Technology Fellowship Program

MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) research affiliate Anat Biletzki is the Albert Schweitzer Professor of Philosophy at Quinnipiac University. From 2001 to 2006, she served as chair of B’Tselem ― the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, and in 2015 was honored as a nominee of the 1,000 Women for the Nobel […]