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MIT’s entrepreneurial ecosystem steps up to the challenge of Covid-19
Innovation and entrepreneurship aren’t easy. New companies are forced to make due with minimal resources. Decisions must be made in the face of great uncertainty. Conditions change rapidly. Perhaps unsurprisingly...
J-WAFS announces seven new seed grants
Agricultural productivity technologies for small-holder farmers; food safety solutions for everyday consumers; sustainable supply chain interventions in the palm oil industry; water purification methods filtering dangerous micropollutants from industrial and...
Scaling solutions for the developing world
In 2016, Tanzania passed a bill to cover medical expenses for expectant mothers. But pregnant women in rural parts of the country face a huge obstacle in getting the care...
MIT D-Lab awards fellowships to six East African social entrepreneurs
The MIT D-Lab Scale-Ups fellowship program, which offers one year of support to social entrepreneurs bringing poverty-alleviating products to market at scale, has announced its six fellows for 2019. This year’s fellows include the...
Tackling poverty, one person at a time
When Staten Island-native Sarah Tress first arrived at MIT, she had never been outside of the United States. Now, almost four years later, she’s travelled across Asia, spending weeks at...
Combining artificial intelligence with their passions
Computational thinking will be the mark of an MIT education when the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing opens this fall, and glimpses of what’s to come were on display during...
Vectorly reinvents itself to maximize its impact on mobile learning
It’s easy to make major changes to a startup in the early stages of its development. But when an entrepreneur has invested years into building a company, attracting employees and...
3 Questions: Kate Trimble on experiential learning at MIT
Kate Trimble officially took the helm of the Office of Experiential Learning (OEL) on Dec. 1, but she is no stranger to the Institute. Since 2016, Trimble has been the...
Sarah Tress wins 2019 Rhodes Scholarship
MIT senior Sarah Tress has been named a Rhodes Scholar. She will commence graduate studies at Oxford University next fall. Each year, 32 Rhodes Scholars are chosen from among hundreds...
J-WAFS awards grants for commercialization of food and water technologies
The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) has announced two new J-WAFS Solutions grant recipients, who are developing technologies that will provide powerful solutions for improving food and...