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    • #Uberrecycle: Easy Mobility Teams Up with Environmental Activism For a Cleaner Lagos and Pollution-Free Earth
    • 2 Indians bag Cartier entrepreneurship award for women
    • 2015 D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellow Venture: GreenPath taps into Ethiopia’s burgeoning organic farming market
    • 2015 – the year that embraced menstruation and brought innovation to women world over
    • 2019 NEXTi2i Flagship Ecosystem Convening - Ghana
    • 2024 PKG Public Service Award Undergraduate Recipient: Daisy Wang '2.4
    • 3 D-Lab alumni among 2014 Echoing Green fellows: Who's Next? Meet the 2014 Fellows
    • 3 from MIT among Technology Review's top young innovators
    • 30 Under 30 - Social Entrepreneurs: MoringaConnect Cofounders
    • 31 Social Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2018 - including 2014 D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellopw venture Good Nature Agro!
    • 3Q: Hazel Sive on MIT-Africa
    • 3Q: Juliana Mitkiewicz on sustainable development and empowering women in developing countries
    • 3Q: Kate Trimble on experiential learning at MIT New senior associate dean and OEL director says opportunities for experiential learning are abundant at the Institute.
    • 5 Best Sales Practices for BoP Customers
    • 50+ D-Lab students to work in 9 countries during January
    • 7 Social Entrepreneurs On How They Finally Got Their Big Break
    • A Cost-Effective Way to Provide Healing in the Places That Need It Most
    • A Different Kind of Big Data: How dot Learn Helps Other EdTech Startups Get Around Mobile Infrastructure Issues
    • A Super-Cool Solution To The 433 Million Sanitary Napkins Wasted Every Month
    • A Toolkit to Identify Sustainable, Market-Based Energy Solutions in Off-Grid Areas
    • A breath of fresh air: D-Lab scales up cleaner cooking solutions
    • A day in the sun: MIT Solar Day brings the MIT community together to preview the coming decades of solar energy innovation.
    • A fleet of bicycles are cleaning up the densely populated and polluted city of Lagos
    • A global study of girls’ access to and usage of mobile, told through 3,000 voices
    • A hands-on approach to Third World aid
    • A life-changing fertilizer for rural farmers in Kenya
    • A simple birthkit for mothers in the developing world
    • A smoother wheelchair ride
    • A ‘big, bold idea’ for better sanitary pads
    • ASPIRE Project Learning Exchange: UVG/AGEXPORT Visit to MIT
    • Abdur Rahman University Hosts Aarogyam Summit
    • Adding management skills to her engineering background, MIT alumna aims for social impact
    • Addressing Crop Loss with Evaporative Cooling: An Interview with Eric Verploegen
    • Addressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design
    • Adebiyi-Abiola: New Face Of Waste Management In Nigeria
    • Affordable prosthetics and orthotics to rival the world’s best devices
    • African Start-Up Award: Four laureates and the Top 50 most innovative African Start-ups!
    • Alliance selects first four businesses for Spark+ Investment Readiness Program support
    • Alternative sanitary pads are here, but accessibility still an issue
    • Alum Aims to Prove that Money Does Grow on Trees
    • Alum aims to prove that money does grow on trees
    • Alumni Profile: D-Lab project leads to solar career in Africa
    • Amazons turning waste to wealth
    • Amy Banzaert Interview
    • Amy Banzaert Interview
    • Amy Smith & D-Lab Charcoal Press featured in Museum Exhibit
    • Amy Smith Interview
    • Amy Smith can't wait to continue field-testing the sugarcane charcoal.
    • Amy Smith honored as one of "Boston's Most Influential Women" by the Women of Harvard Club Committee
    • An a-maize-ing path out of poverty
    • An economist with a goal MIT senior Jonathan Tebes sees economics as a way to alleviate poverty in the US, Tanzania, and beyond.
    • An eye for design: Maria Yang helps product designers hone the creative process.
    • An outpouring of creativity at a design summit (Spanish)
    • Ana Pantelic appointed executive director of MIT D-Lab
    • And here comes Tanzania’s newest billionaire
    • Angles on Water and Food: On the Ground
    • Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Posts of 2016
    • App that provides “nutrition receipts” for groceries wins IDEAS Global Challenge: Twelve teams competing in social-entrepreneurship competition split $97,500 in cash prizes.
    • Apply to IDDS Tairawhiti
    • Apply to host an International Development Design Summit in 2020!
    • Appropriate Tech Gurus Face Uphill Battle in Distribution
    • Arusha Is Rising: The Arusha Innovation Ecosystem
    • As Earth Heats Up, This Inventor is Focused on Keeping Cool
    • As MIT aims to decarbonize, competing ideas focus on thermal energy systems
    • Ashesi University, Ghana and MIT D-Lab partner to support student and alumni entrepreneurs
    • Aspiring to sustainable development
    • At MIT, low-tech inventions with a high impact
    • At TechCon, science-based solutions for world issues
    • Banana Pads
    • Banana fiber sanitary pads can solve big problems in India
    • Barcelona Design Week 2010: D-Lab's 4 Designs Against Poverty
    • Be Honest And Trustworthy If You Want To Be Successful—Ashesi Founder To Young Entrepreneurs
    • Bernard Kiwia: Tanzania's bicycle mechanic turned inventor
    • Best of What's New: Solarclave
    • Betty Ikalany wins Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award
    • Big Ideas, Little Packages
    • Bleeding-edge innovation makes periods go green
    • Botswana: D'Kar Hosts IDDS Summit
    • Bottom-Up Innovation: Local challenges, local solutions
    • Bridging communities to reimagine cultural preservation
    • Bringing hope and transformation to the Democratic Republic of Congo
    • Bringing poverty-alleviating solutions to market in India, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda
    • Bringing safe surgery to patients everywhere
    • Bringing the world to innovation
    • Briquette Producer in Uganda Creates Livelihood Opportunities for Women
    • Building A Better World through Social Entrepreneurship
    • Building a Better Wound Healer
    • Building a better wheelchair
    • Building innovation in India
    • Building the Mountain Bike of Wheelchairs
    • Building the mountain bike of wheelchairs
    • COP21 Hub Culture Paris 2015 Interview with Bilikiss Adebiyil Abiola - Wecyclers
    • Capacity building for Innovators and the community
    • Champions Of Rubbish: Wecyclers Lead Revolution For Waste Recycling In Lagos
    • Chebet Lesan: Kenyan entrepreneur who beat 22k other Africans to win KSh 33M in Jack Ma Foundation's contest
    • Chidi Ajaere, Bilkiss Adebiyi-Abiola, Cosmas Maduka Jr… See the #YNaijaPowerList for Business
    • Clean Energy Education & Empowerment Award Winners (including 2012 D-Lab Scale-Ups fellow Jodie Wu)
    • Clean cooking fuel for Uganda
    • Clean it up: A pile of plans to collect and use rubbish more efficiently
    • Clean water for Nepal is focus of MIT research
    • Closing the Digital Divide: How one Pakistani woman is tackling poverty with technology
    • Combining artificial intelligence with their passions
    • Confronting the Last Mile Problem in the Developing World
    • Confronting the Last Mile Problem in the Developing World
    • Cooling homes without warming the planet
    • Cooper Heweitt celebrates 20th anniversary of the National Design Awards progrma and announces 2019 winners
    • Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum honors MIT D-Lab with National Design Award
    • Could banana plants solve India's sanitary pad problem?
    • Crazy minds, able hands
    • Creating a Level Playing Field for Social Innovators in Africa
    • Creating an impact at the grassroot level : top 25 social stories of 2015
    • Credo-Based Project Leads to Innovative Ideas to Help the People of Ghana
    • Culturally informed design: Unearthing ingenuity where it always was
    • Cumbre sobre innovación y tecnología se realizó en el corregimiento de Conejo, zona rural de Fonseca
    • D-Lab Academics: Fall Class Projects Zoom Schedule - All Invited!
    • D-Lab Alumni Diana Jue & Jackie Stenson: Forbes 2015 30 Under 30: Social Entrepreneurs
    • D-Lab Design Review + Dinner: Off-Grid Brooder for Cameroonian Chick Farmers
    • D-Lab Fall Student Showcase 2018: 24 projects in 15 countries engaging 96 students! December 7, 5 pm
    • D-Lab Founding Director leads skills building trainingin New Zealand
    • D-Lab Instructor Sorin Grama's startup Transaera Inc. selected as a finalist in the Global Cooling Prize
    • D-Lab Lecturer Susan Murcott interviews MIT President Sally Kornbluth for MIT Alumni for Climate Action event
    • D-Lab Off-Grid Energy Group launches Solar Lighting Product Comparison Resource
    • D-Lab Report
    • D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellow Carl Jensen chosen for Mulago Foundation Fellowship
    • D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship applications open
    • D-Lab Scale-Ups Phase I Fellowship - Application guidelines available now.
    • D-Lab Scale-Ups awards $100,000 to five social entrepreneurs
    • D-Lab Scale-Ups awards $60,000 to three MIT social entrepreneurs
    • D-Lab Scale-Ups awards four fellowships totaling $80,000 to social entrepreneurs
    • D-Lab Scale-Ups fellows to tackle irrigation in India and grain storage in Zambia
    • D-Lab and Tata Center team wins $100K Vodafone award for mobile stethoscope
    • D-Lab appoints Bob Nanes to new position of executive director
    • D-Lab moves online, without compromising on impact
    • D-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries
    • D-Lab offers hands-on lessons in meeting energy needs
    • D-Lab team disseminates poverty alleviation technologies
    • D-Lab's Amy Smith joins Bill Gates on a panel addressing innovation
    • D-Lab's Amy Smith to deliver Dana M. Dourdeville Lecture on Engineering in Service to Society
    • D-Lab's Megha Hegde wins Infinite Mile Award for Diversity and Inclusion
    • D-Lab’s Amy Smith receives the 2011 Olympus Innovation Award
    • Dan Frey named D-Lab faculty director
    • Daniel Hastings and Maria Yang appointed associate deans of engineering
    • Delivered. talks to Bernard Kiwia
    • Design D-Lab Marks 20 Years of Empowering Communities
    • Design for the Global Household
    • Design: where dollars are scarce and need is great
    • Designing With, not For
    • Designing cleaner vehicles
    • Designing off-grid refrigeration technologies for crop storage in Kenya
    • Designing solutions to ensure equity in health care
    • Designing the built environment through a service lens
    • Designing with (Not Just for) Communities: MIT D-Lab supports practical solutions to local problems
    • Designing with MIT’s D-Lab
    • Designs for a better world emerge from M.I.T. summit
    • Disruptive Innovations Empowering Women with Comfortable Living
    • Doing more: AeroAstro’s flexible degree program helped Kwami Williams pursue his passion to change the world.
    • Dot Learn, Nigeria’s e-learning company wins $25,000 Edtech
    • Eco-friendly sanitary pads made of banana fibre – Saathi pads’s solution to menstrual waste ... read more on social.yourstory.com
    • Elaine Kung '15 awarded $5,000 by MIT Tau Beta Pi to improve design of compost toilets
    • Empowering Low-Income Communities “One Rubbish at a Time”! WeCyclers’ Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola is #BellaNaijaWCW this Week
    • Empowering Women Through a Simple Purse
    • Empowering the less-abled with cane
    • Engineering Students Design “Happy Feet,” 3D Printed Shoes for Kenyans Afflicted by Jigger Infection
    • Engineering Trash into Treasure
    • Environment: Smart Gas Cooking Seeks to Break African Cities' Dirty Charcoal Habit
    • Eradicating TB with ... cell phone minutes?
    • Essmart raises US$1.2M in financing for scaling innovative kirana shop network
    • Ethical 3D printing begins with plastic waste pickers
    • Ethiopia-based GreenPath Food Raises Seed Funding From Engineers Without Borders Canada
    • Ethiopian Summit Focuses on Participatory Co-Design to Develop Low-Cost WASH Products
    • Evaluating approaches to agricultural development
    • Event: Humanitarian Innovation Jam 2016
    • Expanding energy access in rural Lesotho
    • Experts to Watch: Innovating Refugee Response
    • Exploring Fairness in Machine Learning Convening at Ashesi University, Ghana, August 21 & 22
    • Fair Trade Is the Next Frontier in Beauty’s Ugly Supply Chain
    • Farmers Can Shell Coffee in a Fraction of the Time With This Bike-Powered Machine
    • Farmers are the secret ingredient for Ghana’s most innovative startups
    • Financing Social Entrepreneurship: How To Close The Opportunity Gap For Marginalized Groups
    • Finding the Right Last-Mile Distribution Model
    • First-years learn fundamental principles by creating
    • Force of Water screening at MIT Museu
    • Former Scale-Ups project, AIR, featured in "Hackathons Aren’t Just for Coders. We Can Use Them to Save Lives"
    • Founder of MyH2O talks about “connecting solutions” to map water quality in China.
    • Founders Spotlight: Thabiso Mashaba, Co-Founder,These Hands GSSE
    • Four graduate students win Lemelson prizes
    • Freeing Women with Eco-Friendly Feminine Pads
    • From Aerospace to Agriculture: Why I left MIT & NASA for a Miracle Tree
    • From Feces to Fuel: 3 MIT Students Want to Turn Poop Into Energy
    • From Idea to Execution
    • Generating Value from Waste: Sid Pai's journey with Protoprint, a social enterprise in India that converts waste plastic into 3D printer filament.
    • Getting innovative products to rural communities
    • Giving newborn babies 'air' to breathe
    • Giving refugees design education — and newfound hope
    • Global development summit to aid Kuthambakkam’s health issues
    • Good Nature Agro targets 5,000 smallholder farmers
    • Guinness, Wecyclers Sign MoU on Waste management
    • HESN Labs Working together for Community Driven Innovation
    • Helping artisanal miners in Colombia face the Covid-19 crisis
    • Here’s how we solve the planet’s food waste problem
    • Herramientas para mejorar la vida en Guaviare construidas en un espacio de reincorporación
    • High-income seeds: Community-based farming
    • How MIT D-Lab and Perkins empower kids through inclusive design
    • How does our education shape us?
    • How this MIT grad turned a class project into a career
    • How to Attract Female Engineers
    • How tricycle ambulances are saving lives in rural Ghana
    • IDDS Ayuujk 2025
    • IDDS Educación 2016, an international summit for design and development
    • IDDS Summit an education in more ways than one
    • IDDS Tairawhiti wraps up in New Zealand with six projects completed
    • IDDS Zambia 2013 – Better Living Through Collaborative Innovations
    • IDIN Microgrant Request for Proposals: Due Aug 31, 2013
    • ITU Lahore hosted International Development Design Summit
    • Important Visit
    • Improving people's lives, one device at a time
    • Improving sanitation for the world’s most vulnerable people
    • In Conejo you learn with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • In Laayoune, the "2018 Practical Impact Alliance Co-design Summit" at the service of young entrepreneurs in southern Morocco
    • In Puerto Rico, a shortage of tarps and electricity means the misery continues for storm-weary people
    • In Tanzania, Powering Cell Phones and Shelling Corn with a Bicycle
    • In it together: Faculty mentors and graduate students
    • In online vigil, MIT community shares grief, anger, and hope
    • In search of a major she loves: Senior Amna Magzoub finds her niche in mechanical engineering, plans to bring skills home to Sudan.
    • In the World: A better way to beat around the bush
    • In the World: Cultivating creativity
    • In the World: Design summit’s inventions find willing buyers
    • In the World: Turning waste into profit
    • India-Bound: MIT Students Work and Learn
    • Innovación y diseño en un espacio de reincorporación de la Farc
    • Innovation Ecosystems: Identifying and Fostering Grassroots Design Capacity
    • Innovation Tank: And the winner is … AIR
    • Innovation Within Reach
    • Innovation in Africa: What Young African Women Entrepreneurs Have to Say
    • Innovation in the classroom
    • Innovation in the making
    • Innovation – Thabiso Mashaba
    • Innovations in water accessibility
    • Innovators at MIT to present workable solutions for developing world
    • International Development Design Summit convenes innovators to address clean cooking in Uganda
    • International Development Design Summit thinks about improving quality of life of recyclers
    • International development through dialogue, design, and dissemination
    • International summit in Si Sa Ket seeks to promote innovative economy
    • Interview with Eric Verploegen: Off-Grid Energy Specialist at MIT D-Lab
    • Interview with Saida Benhayoune, Director of Innovation Practice at Massachusetts Institute of Technology D-Lab
    • Introducing a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to conducting comparative product evaluations
    • J-WAFS Grants $15,000 to MIT Who Are Developing Solutions for Water and Food Challenges in India
    • J-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
    • J-WAFS announces 2019 Solutions Grants supporting agriculture and clean water
    • J-WAFS announces 2021 Solutions program grants for commercialization of water and food technologies
    • J-WAFS announces seven new seed grants
    • J-WAFS awards 2018 Solutions grants for commercialization of MIT food and water technologies
    • J-WAFS awards commercialization grants to develop technologies for water and food solutions
    • J-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across MIT
    • John Hoffmire: Saathi pads: Sustainability addressing India's needs for sanitary pads
    • Kenyan company provides an alternative to firewood using agricultural waste
    • Korea Empowers Tanzania, Uganda And South-Sudan In Tackling Electronic Waste. Samsung Joins Team
    • Lean Research: Introducing a Movement for Change
    • Learn impact measurement strategies with Laura Budzyna, Associate Director for Innovation Practice at MIT D-Lab (#17)
    • Learning to Talk Trash in New Longoro
    • Lesoma innovatioin center in Botswana awarded $100,000 to commercialize organic washing powder
    • Letter to the community: Update regarding Executive Order, thoughts on moving forward
    • Leveraging computational tools to enhance product design
    • Libby Hsu, SM ’11, MIT D-Lab Associate Director for Academics wins John S.W. Kellett Award.
    • Livelihood Innovations: Promoting Small-Scale Social Entrepreneurship
    • Local Beauty and Health Startup Aims to Improve Economy in Ghana
    • Local businesses working to change the impact beauty product manufacturing has on the environment
    • Local materials, low cost and good science add up to technology for developing nations
    • Los pueblos Triquis, hacia el desarollo de sus obros de arte
    • Low Technologies, High Aims
    • MIT Conference on Mining
    • MIT D-Lab - supporting early-stage entrepreneurs in emerging markets to reach Focus, Agility and (then) Resilience
    • MIT D-Lab 20th Anniversary
    • MIT D-Lab Announces a One-Year Collaboration with Upaya Social Ventures to Create a Pilot Program to Reduce Barriers to Investment in Women-Led Social Enterprises in India
    • MIT D-Lab Associate Director for Research wins Infinite Mile Award for Everyday Leadership
    • MIT D-Lab Faculty Director for Academics promoted to full professor
    • MIT D-Lab Founder Amy Smith Discusses Appropriate Technology and Fighting Poverty
    • MIT D-Lab Inclusive Economies Program and the Alliance for Responsible Mining join forces to address gender-based violence in the small-scale mining sector in Colombia
    • MIT D-Lab Practical Impact Alliance (PIA) wraps up Co-Design Summit in Laâyoune
    • MIT D-Lab among the winners of the ANDE Advancing Women’s Empowerment Fund
    • MIT D-Lab awards fellowships to six East African social entrepreneurs
    • MIT D-Lab participates in National Design Week, accepts National Design Award
    • MIT D-Lab promotes rural community innovations in Guatemala with Soluciones Comunitarias
    • MIT D-Lab receives $35k grant from Newman’s Own Foundation for the D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship Program
    • MIT D-Lab spinout provides emergency transportation during childbirth
    • MIT D-Lab students collaborate with adaptive design center in Mexico
    • MIT D-Lab students design global energy solutions through collaboration
    • MIT D-Lab to launch industry collaboration this fall
    • MIT D-Lab works to empower artisanal women miners in Colombia
    • MIT D-Lab's 20th Anniversary - Save the Date: October 21
    • MIT Federal Credit Union presents 2018 scholarships, People Helping People Award
    • MIT Grad's Mission: Build A Wheelchair That Works Anywhere
    • MIT Morningside Academy for Design created as a new hub for cross-disciplinary education, research, and innovation
    • MIT Practical Impact Alliance Co-Design Summit - Ghana 2015
    • MIT Scaling Development Ventures: Bridging innovation and impact
    • MIT [D-Lab] teaches classes to refugees
    • MIT a linchpin of major new USAID program
    • MIT celebrates Women's Entrepreneurship Month
    • MIT engineers make filters from tree branches to purify drinking water
    • MIT grad student designs low-cost solution for high-tech African problem
    • MIT launches a Consumer Reports for the developing world
    • MIT one of 32 inaugural partners of Global Development Lab
    • MIT receives $15M USAID award to promote research and innovation at universities in Latin America
    • MIT researchers design low-cost refrigeration method for food in agricultural areas
    • MIT researchers develop the world’s first USB-powered mobile stethoscope
    • MIT senior and Rhodes Scholar Matthew Chun wants to promote innovation that enhances quality of life in developing countries.
    • MIT spinout Sanergy targeting clean sanitation for all of Kenya (and beyond)
    • MIT team's climate clock will shine over Cambridge to raise awareness of climate change
    • MIT workshop teaches refugee children joys of digital design
    • MIT's climate clock says the globe will hit a critical warming mark in 6 months
    • MIT-USAID program releases evaluation of water filters
    • MIT-USAID program releases pioneering evaluation of solar lanterns
    • MIT’s D-Lab founder speaks at Imperial about tackling global challenges
    • MIT’s entrepreneurial ecosystem steps up to the challenge of Covid-19
    • MIT’s place in the world
    • MacArthur 'genius' grants go to four from MIT
    • Magnet School graduate sells solar-powered lights to poor in Tanzania through her company Global Cycle Solutions
    • Making Evidence Practical for Development
    • Making a difference in the developing world
    • Making more thank peanuts
    • Making them able again with cane
    • Managing Disasters With Small Steps
    • MassChallenge Awards $1.7M in Cash Prizes to Top Startups in Boston and Rhode Island
    • Massachusetts and UN allies in innovation
    • Massive clock projection at MIT uses local twist to track climate crisis
    • Matthew Cavuto: Getting a leg up on engineering
    • MechE alumna [and D-Lab Scale-Ups fellow] Danielle Zurovcik’s WiCare named finalist for Hult Prize
    • Meet 17 inspiring US women social entrepreneurs who have built game changing enterprises impacting Africa positively
    • Meet Bernard Kiwia: Tanzania’s Top Inventor and Father of Rural Innovation
    • Meet Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola - Nigeria's Waste Economy Builder Turning Trash into Cash
    • Meet Kristin Kagestsu, The MIT grad making biodegradable sanitary pads
    • Meet the Activist Behind India’s First Biodegradable Menstrual Pad
    • Meet the entrepreneur connecting indigenous artists with the global art market
    • More than 30 from MIT named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists
    • Moringa is known as 'The Miracle Tree,' and its powers are spreading worldwide.
    • Moving Health unveils new ambulance design
    • Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
    • New grants help amplify impact of MIT IDEAS Global Challenge teams
    • New laboratory in Ghana to test cookstoves
    • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to speak at MIT’s 2022 Commencement
    • Nigerian Eco Heroes Find Solutions in the Everyday
    • Nigeria’s Wecyclers Work for Reusable Future in Lagos
    • Nigeria’s dot Learn wins $75k at Cisco challenge
    • No clean water? No problem: 6 do-it-yourself ways Puerto Ricans can ensure it’s drinkable
    • Not Just Skin Deep: Interview with True Moringa's Emily Cunningham & Kwami Williams
    • On the Ground in China to Provide Clean Water
    • One Solution to Keeping India's Girls in School: Cheap Maxi Pads
    • PIA Innovation Ecosystem Working Group Sees the Morocco Co-Design Summit as an Opportunity for Practical Application
    • PODCAST: Design for a more equitable world
    • Participatory Design: A Creative, Non-linear And Sometimes Messy Process
    • Patent sought for infant-saving AIR
    • Peace Corps Director Jody Olsen visits D-Lab
    • Playing With Toys and Saving Lives
    • Podcast: Kwami Williams, MoringaConnect | Unlocking the Value of Moringa to End Poverty
    • PotaVida Awarded $150K Grant for Pilot Test in Somalia
    • Potential to lead: Using technology to overcome poverty
    • Practical Education Network Wins Demo Africa Accra Innovation Tour
    • Practical Impace Alliance Co-Design Summit -Laâyoune, Morocco
    • Press Release: MIT Practical Impact Alliance launches second annual co-design summit in Zambia
    • Products of Progress
    • Professors Maria Yang and Kenneth Oye are honored as “Committed to Caring” for their mentorship of graduate students.
    • Profiles in generosity: Shashank, OE ’81, and Medha Karve
    • Project strives for clean drinking water in Nepal
    • Promising Prototypes of 2015
    • Protoprint : Ethical 3D Printer Filament
    • Putting people before buildings
    • Q&A with Debbie Lin Teodorescu of SurgiBox
    • Q&A: Nathan Cooke, designer and instructor at MIT’s D-Lab
    • Quartz Africa Innovators 2016 list
    • RISD Students Create Design-Learning Activities for Refugee Youth
    • Read how Indian women are revolutionizing clean cooking as entrepreneurs
    • Real People, Real Solutions at D-Lab
    • Rebecca Hui Shares Her Advice for Successfully Scaling a Social Enterprise
    • Recipient of the 2022 J-WAFS Grant for Transforming Animal Agriculture Systems announced: The selected research project is designing a safe, off-grid chicken brooder for smallholder poultry farmers in developing countries.
    • Recycling on Tricycles in Lagos: Five Questions with Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola
    • Revolutionizing global health
    • Rise Legs: A Bengaluru startup that empowers amputees with cost-effective can prosthetics
    • Roots Studios’ ‘Shutterstock for cultural art’ could transform rural communities
    • Running Start: Students who hatch their companies at MIT are well-positioned for impact
    • Rwandan President Paul Kagame visits MIT
    • Saathi: Healthcare startup makes biodegradable pads from banana fibre
    • Salvar el mundo por 3 euros
    • Sanitary breakthrough brings hygiene and work to rural India
    • Sarah Tress wins 2019 Rhodes Scholarship
    • Scale-Ups Fellow Kevin Cedrone & AIR: Round 5 Award Nominees for Innovative Solutions to Prevent Maternal, Infant Deaths in the Hardest to Reach Regions of the World
    • Scale-Ups Fellow in the News: The custom-made tricycles driving Lagos's slum waste revolution
    • Scale-Ups Fellow: Are You 3D-Printing with Fair-Trade Filament?
    • Scale-Ups Fellow: Bringing “everyone wins” recycling to Nigeria
    • Scale-Ups Fellow: Garbage in, Money Out: My Stroll With Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola
    • Scale-Ups Fellow: Nigerian recycling initiative proves it’s not all about hi-tech solutions
    • Scale-Ups Fellow: Putting Waste to Good Use
    • Scale-Ups Fellow: The Augumented Infant Resuscitator: Refining a hackathon invention to reduce infant mortality at scale
    • Scale-Ups Fellow: Turning Trash Into Treasure
    • Scale-Ups Fellow: Unlikely Startup Connects India’s Garbage Dumps to 3-D Design
    • Scale-Ups Fellow: Yough grad could make worldwide health impact
    • Scale-Ups Fellow: Zubaida Bai Named Asia 21 Young Leader by Asia Society
    • Scaling Development Ventures conference goes digital in face of storm.
    • Scaling solutions for the developing world
    • Scaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves
    • School of Engineering teams win big at this year’s MassChallenge
    • Seeing solutions through, across continents
    • Shaking Up the Status Quo in Nepal
    • Showing true GRIT
    • Social enterprises empower communities
    • Social entrepreneur Zubaida Bai bags UN honour for corporate sustainability initiative
    • Sophia Chen: It’s our duty to make the world better through empathy, patience, and respect
    • Spin cycle: a new kind of washer
    • Spotlight on service
    • Spotlight on: SurgiBox, StartHub’s Startup to Watch for July 2018
    • Startup empowers women to improve access to safe drinking water
    • Sterilizing with the sun: Solar concentrating system could replace fuel-powered or electric devices in remote villages.
    • Stories from the ground — on building a market creating company in Ghana
    • Stove Project Sparks Global Youth Action
    • Student Spotlight: Engineering Low-cost Filters for Clean Water Access
    • Students Design Low-Tech Ways to Help Improve Lives of Rural Poor
    • Students on MacVicar Day panel describe educational experiences
    • Students on Sally Haslanger: “She Makes You Feel Like You Can Do This”
    • Students tackle flooding in Honduras
    • SurgiBox Secures US Patents, Pioneering the Future of Mobile Surgery
    • Sustainable solutions at home and abroad
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      • MIT Federal Credit Union presents 2018 scholarships, People Helping People Award
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      • MIT Morningside Academy for Design created as a new hub for cross-disciplinary education, research, and innovation
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      • MIT workshop teaches refugee children joys of digital design
      • MIT's climate clock says the globe will hit a critical warming mark in 6 months
      • MIT-USAID program releases evaluation of water filters
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      • MIT’s D-Lab founder speaks at Imperial about tackling global challenges
      • MIT’s entrepreneurial ecosystem steps up to the challenge of Covid-19
      • MIT’s place in the world
      • MacArthur 'genius' grants go to four from MIT
      • Magnet School graduate sells solar-powered lights to poor in Tanzania through her company Global Cycle Solutions
      • Making Evidence Practical for Development
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      • Making more thank peanuts
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      • MassChallenge Awards $1.7M in Cash Prizes to Top Startups in Boston and Rhode Island
      • Massachusetts and UN allies in innovation
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      • Matthew Cavuto: Getting a leg up on engineering
      • MechE alumna [and D-Lab Scale-Ups fellow] Danielle Zurovcik’s WiCare named finalist for Hult Prize
      • Meet 17 inspiring US women social entrepreneurs who have built game changing enterprises impacting Africa positively
      • Meet Bernard Kiwia: Tanzania’s Top Inventor and Father of Rural Innovation
      • Meet Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola - Nigeria's Waste Economy Builder Turning Trash into Cash
      • Meet Kristin Kagestsu, The MIT grad making biodegradable sanitary pads
      • Meet the Activist Behind India’s First Biodegradable Menstrual Pad
      • Meet the entrepreneur connecting indigenous artists with the global art market
      • More than 30 from MIT named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists
      • Moringa is known as 'The Miracle Tree,' and its powers are spreading worldwide.
      • Moving Health unveils new ambulance design
      • Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
      • New grants help amplify impact of MIT IDEAS Global Challenge teams
      • New laboratory in Ghana to test cookstoves
      • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to speak at MIT’s 2022 Commencement
      • Nigerian Eco Heroes Find Solutions in the Everyday
      • Nigeria’s Wecyclers Work for Reusable Future in Lagos
      • Nigeria’s dot Learn wins $75k at Cisco challenge
      • No clean water? No problem: 6 do-it-yourself ways Puerto Ricans can ensure it’s drinkable
      • Not Just Skin Deep: Interview with True Moringa's Emily Cunningham & Kwami Williams
      • On the Ground in China to Provide Clean Water
      • One Solution to Keeping India's Girls in School: Cheap Maxi Pads
      • PIA Innovation Ecosystem Working Group Sees the Morocco Co-Design Summit as an Opportunity for Practical Application
      • PODCAST: Design for a more equitable world
      • Participatory Design: A Creative, Non-linear And Sometimes Messy Process
      • Patent sought for infant-saving AIR
      • Peace Corps Director Jody Olsen visits D-Lab
      • Playing With Toys and Saving Lives
      • Podcast: Kwami Williams, MoringaConnect | Unlocking the Value of Moringa to End Poverty
      • PotaVida Awarded $150K Grant for Pilot Test in Somalia
      • Potential to lead: Using technology to overcome poverty
      • Practical Education Network Wins Demo Africa Accra Innovation Tour
      • Practical Impace Alliance Co-Design Summit -Laâyoune, Morocco
      • Press Release: MIT Practical Impact Alliance launches second annual co-design summit in Zambia
      • Products of Progress
      • Professors Maria Yang and Kenneth Oye are honored as “Committed to Caring” for their mentorship of graduate students.
      • Profiles in generosity: Shashank, OE ’81, and Medha Karve
      • Project strives for clean drinking water in Nepal
      • Promising Prototypes of 2015
      • Protoprint : Ethical 3D Printer Filament
      • Putting people before buildings
      • Q&A with Debbie Lin Teodorescu of SurgiBox
      • Q&A: Nathan Cooke, designer and instructor at MIT’s D-Lab
      • Quartz Africa Innovators 2016 list
      • RISD Students Create Design-Learning Activities for Refugee Youth
      • Read how Indian women are revolutionizing clean cooking as entrepreneurs
      • Real People, Real Solutions at D-Lab
      • Rebecca Hui Shares Her Advice for Successfully Scaling a Social Enterprise
      • Recipient of the 2022 J-WAFS Grant for Transforming Animal Agriculture Systems announced: The selected research project is designing a safe, off-grid chicken brooder for smallholder poultry farmers in developing countries.
      • Recycling on Tricycles in Lagos: Five Questions with Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola
      • Revolutionizing global health
      • Rise Legs: A Bengaluru startup that empowers amputees with cost-effective can prosthetics
      • Roots Studios’ ‘Shutterstock for cultural art’ could transform rural communities
      • Running Start: Students who hatch their companies at MIT are well-positioned for impact
      • Rwandan President Paul Kagame visits MIT
      • Saathi: Healthcare startup makes biodegradable pads from banana fibre
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      • Sanitary breakthrough brings hygiene and work to rural India
      • Sarah Tress wins 2019 Rhodes Scholarship
      • Scale-Ups Fellow Kevin Cedrone & AIR: Round 5 Award Nominees for Innovative Solutions to Prevent Maternal, Infant Deaths in the Hardest to Reach Regions of the World
      • Scale-Ups Fellow in the News: The custom-made tricycles driving Lagos's slum waste revolution
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      • Scale-Ups Fellow: Nigerian recycling initiative proves it’s not all about hi-tech solutions
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      • Scale-Ups Fellow: Yough grad could make worldwide health impact
      • Scale-Ups Fellow: Zubaida Bai Named Asia 21 Young Leader by Asia Society
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      • School of Engineering teams win big at this year’s MassChallenge
      • Seeing solutions through, across continents
      • Shaking Up the Status Quo in Nepal
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      • Social entrepreneur Zubaida Bai bags UN honour for corporate sustainability initiative
      • Sophia Chen: It’s our duty to make the world better through empathy, patience, and respect
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      • Sterilizing with the sun: Solar concentrating system could replace fuel-powered or electric devices in remote villages.
      • Stories from the ground — on building a market creating company in Ghana
      • Stove Project Sparks Global Youth Action
      • Student Spotlight: Engineering Low-cost Filters for Clean Water Access
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      • Students on Sally Haslanger: “She Makes You Feel Like You Can Do This”
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      • Systems Change: Sustainable Innovations Powering the Great Transformation
      • TILT: Meeting humanitarian needs through technology
      • TR35: Jose Gomez-Marquez
      • Tackling Challenges to Scale Summit to run October 27 to November 2 in Mukono, Uganda
      • Tackling air pollution in India and the developing world
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      • Talking #Inclusivebiz No. 3: Impacting the Growth Trajectory of Women Founders Through Innovative Initiatives, Such As Global Scale Up X
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      • Techstars Foundation and the Western Union Foundation announced today a $100,000 joint commitment to fund two grants of $50,000 each to MIT D-Lab and Watson Institute to support underrepresented youth.
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