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Fourteen from MIT awarded 2022 Fulbright Fellowships
...students; taught science and engineering courses to over 400 students in Jordan, Chile, and South Africa through MIT’s Global Teaching Labs; and biked across the country with MIT Spokes. Between...
Vectorly reinvents itself to maximize its impact on mobile learning
...a mobile learning app for students in Sub-Saharan Africa called dot Learn. Their ultimate goal was to make online learning accessible to 50 million students around the world by 2022....
Designing the built environment through a service lens
...gained during her time at MIT to expand and educate on sustainable structural design and building methods in her home country of Rwanda and elsewhere in Africa. Before coming to...
A life-changing fertilizer for rural farmers in Kenya
...in earnings from increased crop yields. Now Safi is seeking to bring its model to India and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. A long journey By the end of 2012,...
Academy in Ghana aims to develop world leaders
...Carlos Sylvanus Dey, will be centered on three pillars: leadership, innovation, and social responsibility. Incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship into education Ghana, one of the most politically stable countries in Africa,...
3 Questions: The future of international education
Evan Lieberman is the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa in the MIT Department of Political Science. He conducts research in the field of comparative politics, with a...
Clothing brand helps give survivors of sexual violence a path forward
...was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he lived throughout Africa in his youth before finishing high school in Paris. He attended the University of Miami as an undergraduate,...
“The world needs your smarts, your skills,” Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala tells MIT’s Class of 2022
...global finance, economics, and international development, Okonjo-Iweala is the first woman and first African to lead the WTO. She earned a master’s degree in city planning from MIT in 1978,...
Mobilizing creative learning with OctoStudio
...widespread. Throughout the design process, the Lifelong Kindergarten team has been collaborating with educators in Brazil, Chile, India, Korea, Mexico, South Africa, Uganda, and other countries around the world. To...
Championing health workers to lead vaccination efforts in Uganda
...a better understanding of people’s attitudes toward Covid-19 vaccines in Africa and their trust in authorities during the pandemic. Lily L. Tsai, the Ford Professor of Political Science at MIT...