Volunteering, outreach, public service

Three Washington, D.C. biology teachers create online video lessons for MIT BLOSSOMS Program

October 12, 2012

Victoria Okuneye, a senior majoring in brain and cognitive sciences.

A brain beyond borders

MIT senior Victoria Okuneye traveled to Mexico and Jamaica to pursue her passions for neuroscience and global service.

September 26, 2012

MIT students participating in CityDays 2011. This year, CityDays will continue as an event on Oct. 9.

CityDays celebrates its 21st birthday, and you’re invited

Student registration for the CityDays Serve-Off open until Sept. 24.

September 21, 2012

Greg Tao '10, SM '12 (left), delivers an autoclave prototype to a rural Nepali health clinic in January 2012.

Alumni bring autoclaves to the developing world

OttoClave aims to deliver world-class sterilization technology to rural health clinics.

September 20, 2012

Ninth-grade girls in the Edgerton Center's You GO Girl science and engineering program experimenting with strobe-light photography.

The Edgerton Center turns 20

Professor J. Kim Vandiver on the history and future of the Edgerton Center.

September 17, 2012

Matthew Orosz stands with a parabolic solar collector in Lesotho in January 2006. During this trip, funded by IDEAS awards and Public Service Center fellowships, Orosz and his team deployed their second field prototype.

Matthew Orosz awarded Echoing Green Fellowship to further off-grid energy work

Newly minted MIT PhD selected for two-year social entrepreneurship fellowship.

July 5, 2012

Edgerton Center hosts visitors at Third Annual Obscura Day

June 6, 2012

MIT senior and biology major Anjali Thakkar at the TIMtalks event on Wednesday night.

TIMtalks spotlight students who have turned failure into success

Event gives students an opportunity to discuss failure, achievement, MIT culture.

May 18, 2012

The Number Six Club, the winning team of the 2012 FSILG&D Community Service Challenge. Representing the team, L-R: Eyas Sharaiha '13, Nina Jreige '13, Deema Totah '12, Angelique Nehmzow '14.

Rising to the Challenge

Number Six wins second annual FSILG&D Community Service Challenge

May 14, 2012

The OpenIR team, working to bring greater environmental information to maps by utilizing infrared data, wins an award to further their work.

Innovative IDEAS

13 winning teams present projects at annual awards celebration.

May 4, 2012

The 'Fashion Show; winner with several other Sidney-Pacific residents

Sidney-Pacific residents donate 450 pounds of clothing in spring clothing drive and fashion show

May 4, 2012

MIT launches student-produced educational video initiative

Original short videos, in collaboration with Khan Academy, aim to fuel K-12 students’ interest in engineering and science.

April 25, 2012

Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering students at the 2012 ANS Student Conference at which MIT was announced as the 2013 Conference host. From left to right: (standing) Will Boyd, Mark Reed, Giancarlo Lenci, Koroush Shrivan, Ekaterina Paramonova; (seated) Brad Black, Elliot Fray, Sara Ferry, Rosemary Sugrue, Brittany Guyer, Sam Shaner and Alex Salazar; (not pictured) Lulu Li.

MIT to host 2013 American Nuclear Society Student Conference

April 23, 2012

Kate Mytty, right, facilitates the IDEAS Global Challenge. She poses here with 2011 competition participant and MIT graduate student Greg Tao, left, and D-Lab Project Director Saida Benhayoune, center.

IDEAS Global Challenge coordinator discusses intersection of innovation and public service

Facilitated by Kate Mytty, competition will award up to $10,000 per team next month.

April 20, 2012

Jane He tutoring Emmanuel DeBarros in critical reading during the Sunday Sessions of Amphibious Achievement.

Donations from Community Giving at MIT advance work of nonprofits and volunteers

April 10, 2012

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