Zoë McAlear (G)(Summer ’19)
Part 4: Final Reflections This summer was a great opportunity to spend a few months somewhere very different from Boston, gain exposure to the world of collaborative natural resource management…
Meet PKG: Alison Hynd, Assistant Dean
Coming from Devon in the southwest countryside of England, Alison Hynd took a long and winding road to join the MIT community. Now Assistant Dean at the PKG Center, Hynd…
PKG Award Winner 2019: Sarah Tress (’19)
Know a public service rockstar? Nominations for the 2020 PKG Award are due by Friday, April 24th! — Sarah Tress is known for many different things at MIT. She is…
PKG Award Winner 2019: Lisa Volpatti (G)
Know a public service rockstar? Nominations for the 2020 PKG Award are due by Friday, April 24th! — “I’m a fifth-year graduate student in the Chemical Engineering Department,” Lisa Volpatti…
Spring’19, Melody Wu’22, BIDMC
My first year at MIT has been a whirlwind of ups and downs, highs and lows, and everything in between. In the fall, being far from my home in California…
Congratulations 2019 IDEAS Winners!
Meet the 2019 IDEAS Winners! After nearly a year-long competition, ten social innovation teams have been chosen to receive over $100,000 in grant money to keep their projects running. Meet…
Meet Liz O’Haney: IAP 2019 Fellow
“I’m a second-year Masters student in DUSP, and I have an internship with MassInc.,” says Liz O’Haney, who spent IAP 2019 starting a PKG-funded internship with a nonpartisan think tank…
Together In Service 2019: Looking Back on April
As many of you may know, April is Together In Service Month at MIT! It’s a time where we can celebrate the social impact MIT students have on their…
Meet PKG: Rebecca Smith, Interim IDEAS Administrator
“I was born here in Boston, but when I was four we moved to Central New York to a pretty small town,” says Becca Smith, who has recently joined the…