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Panel examines Israel-Hamas conflict
...CIS, focusing on leading issues of global interest. In moderating Wednesday’s event, Lieberman, who is also the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa, called the ongoing events “a...
Leveraging schools for political influence
...— the politics behind what is happening and how it might change the political landscape,” she says. With survey and field work skills sharpened by on-the-ground research in East Africa,...
Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on building equity and fairness into climate solutions
...ERF to help companies address similar internal adaptation and resilience challenges. Protecting and enhancing natural carbon sinks Deforestation and forest degradation of strategic ecosystems in the Amazon, Central Africa, and...
Visiting undergraduates collaborate with MIT PhD students on research through MIT GOV/LAB mentorship pilot
...in sub-Saharan Africa. Akwasi Owusu-Brempong, a Brandeis University senior, also used R to analyze changes in the distributions of ethnic groups and read up on the histories of different neighborhoods...
Informing Covid-19 preparedness in Sierra Leone
As Covid-19 continues to spread, governments in West Africa have been working to meet the virus head-on. In Sierra Leone, the government took measures back in January to quarantine all...
New J-WAFS-led project combats food insecurity
...Horn of Africa, communities are migrating in search of food. In the United States, extreme heat and lack of rainfall in the Southwest have drastically lowered Lake Mead’s water levels,...
MIT researchers release evaluation of low-cost cooling devices in Mali
Across the Sahel, a semiarid region of western and north-central Africa extending from Senegal to Sudan, many small-scale farmers, market vendors, and families lack an affordable and effective solution for...
How aspirations become actions
...Demisse joined the African Students Association, where he found another community to inspire him. He participated in UROP, completing a project with MIT D-Lab, the lab that Demisse had dreamed...
President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone visits MIT
In just 10 months in office as the Republic of Sierra Leone’s fifth democratically elected president, Julius Maada Bio has already laid out and begun to implement one of Africa’s...
Promoting systemic change in the Middle East, the “MIT way”
...of being a global leader and entrepreneur. Guest presenters included: Boston College Associate Professor Peter Krause (MIT Security Studies Program alumnus), Gilad Rosenzweig (MITdesignX), Ari Jacobovits (MIT-Africa), and Mollie Laffin-Rose...