This year’s cohort of 100 Rise Global Winners includes two MIT first-year students, Jacqueline Prawira and Safiya Sankari.
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MIT hosts the 14th Math Prize for Girls, which aims to encourage female middle and high school students of mathematics.
MIT’s David Autor has been an outspoken advocate for student rights and the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the Department of Economics, all leading to his recognition as Committed to Caring.
The group is considering conducting an ecological survey of the area to see if there is another source of water so they could drill another borehole. They will complete their analysis and then decide the best solution to implement.
In 2010, DeGraff co-founded the MIT-Haiti Initiative with Vijay Kumar of MIT Open Learning, a project that seeks to advance “development, evaluation, and dissemination of active-learning resources in Kreyòl to help improve education in Haiti.
By identifying, testing, and implementing promising innovations, Residential Education aims to make it easier for instructors to change and evolve their learning materials.
“I wanted students to feel empowered to incorporate their own expertise, talents, and interests into every activity," says MIT’s Raechel Walker.
In MIT’s Experiential Ethics summer course, students grapple with real-world ethical decision making, often while interning in the very fields they’re studying.
Throughout his career, Professor Hal Abelson has worked to make information technology more accessible to people of all ages.
The researchers found a sizable increase in the number of students who reported mental distress at some time in the preceding year. College-wide access to Facebook led to an increase in severe depression by 7% and anxiety disorder by 20%.