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Training STEM teachers to uncover students’ full potential
...Beem says. PEN operates on donor support and has received funding from MIT SOLVE, the MIT D-Lab Scale-Ups fellowship program, and the MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Business Plan Competition. During...
Ayomikun Ayodeji ’22 named a 2024 Rhodes Scholar
Ayomikun “Ayo” Ayodeji ’22 from Lagos, Nigeria, has been selected as a Rhodes Scholar for West Africa. He will begin fully funded postgraduate studies at Oxford University in the U.K....
A better way to make development projects work
...general, the major national players in SSC projects tend to be China, Brazil, India, and South Africa.) However, Carolini observes in the book, it is not a simple matter to...
Empowering people to adapt on the frontlines of climate change
...is one of the world’s largest nongovernmental organizations, serving 110 million people across 11 countries in Asia and Africa, but its success is cultivated locally. “BRAC is thrilled to partner...
Toward speech recognition for uncommon spoken languages
...the door for speech recognition of uncommon languages that lack large amounts of transcribed speech, like Wolof, which is spoken by 5 million people in West Africa. However, the neural...
MIT Arab SciTech Virtual IDEAthon rethinks learning during Covid-19
...tackle the challenges facing more than 200 million students in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region who had their education disrupted due the current global pandemic. The goal...
Diving into the global problem of technology waste
...inequality, poverty, and pollution in the United States to the dumping and innovative recycling of e-waste in Africa. “We take a world tour, looking at how things are made, how...
J-PAL launches the Egypt Impact Lab to improve lives through evidence-informed policymaking
A new collaboration between the Middle East and North Africa regional office of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and Egypt’s Ministry of Planning and Economic Development aims to...
US and UAE governments highlight early warning system for climate resilience
...East Africa, with a focus on Sudan, the initiative will emphasize adopting modern technology to use a better variety of heat-resistant seeds, increasing the use of targeted fertilizers, strengthening soils...
Empowering the Teachers
Empowering the Teachers (ETT) is an education-focused fellowship introducing junior African engineering faculty to MIT’s cutting-edge teaching methodologies. The fellows leverage tools and skills they acquired through the ETT Program...