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Ice melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities
...the organization partnered with MIT-Africa, an MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) program, to launch the first-ever Global Teaching Labs (GTL) workshop for young leaders in Sudan. GTL is...
Mobilizing the masses, one person at a time
...in the United States and in South Africa, Nahmias has firsthand experience with how movements succeed: “Mobilization works — face-to-face individual conversations are what matter, connecting with somebody at a...
Pilot, engineer, neuroscientist, bridge-builder
...and beyond After graduating, Gibson participated in MISTI-Africa, working in the Global Surgery Department at the Groote Shuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Inspired by her UROP experience in...
Urbanization: No fast lane to transformation
...geometry of street grids in 1,000 of sub-Saharan Africa’s largest cities “to think about urban order,” he says. Digitizing historical street maps of African cities from the Library of Congress’s...
A new goal for soccer: Improving attitudes toward refugees
...sub-Saharan Africa. “It’s really important to think about what happens in those areas,” Zhou adds. “Are host citizens in some of these areas inclusive, and if not, how can we...
Bringing hope and transformation to the Democratic Republic of Congo
...nations (Nigeria and South Africa top the list). He hypothesizes that the presence of students from these nations in elite American colleges has created an invaluable financial network for African...
Hazel Sive named dean of Northeastern University College of Science
...in chemistry and zoology from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg — Sive has engaged in building connections between MIT and Africa. In 2014, Sive founded the MIT-Africa Initiative, where she...
The promise of using WhatsApp for low-tech distance learning
WhatsApp is one of the most widely-used communication apps in South Africa. Though it’s often portrayed in the news as a way to spread disinformation, it shows surprising potential as...
Projects investigating Swahili, global media win SHASS Humanities Awards
...impacts the ability of MIT undergraduate students to consider the perspectives of the African continent in their important work,” says Urlaub, who heads MIT Global Languages. Urlaub has enlisted the...
MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab to launch research center at American University in Cairo
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT is launching a new regional research center in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to focus on innovative research...