From the Blog

(IAP 2015) Spencer Wenck ’15
Spencer worked in Bluefields, Nicaragua over IAP. He has developed a biological system with the student group Hope in Flight to convert organic waste into high quality animal feed.  He…
(IAP 2015) Nikita Kodali ’17
Nikita will be going to Chennai, India, this IAP to establish an incentivized teaching program between undergraduates at Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and local underfunded government schools.  Selected…
(Summer 2014) Lee Dwyer, G
Lee Dwyer, (G, Urban Studies and Planning) Lee spent the summer working with the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Roxbury, Boston on community mapping and Trina Persad Park redesign projects.…
(Summer 2014) Sara Dolcetti: Medical Diagnostic for Childhood Pneumonia in India
Sara Dolcetti (G, Master of Science &  Master of Business Administration) Sara spent the summer in India, accelerating the development of a low-cost mobile phone-based thermal imaging device to screen for…
(Summer 2014) Chelsea Barabas, G
Chelsea Barabas (G, Comparative Media Studies) Chelsea spent her summer in San Francisco, where she worked with an organization called CODE2040 to design and study interventions that support pathways into the…
(Summer 2014) Claudia Bode, G
Claudia Bode (G, Architecture) Claudia traveled to the region of Mbeya, in Western Tanzania, in order to kick off the construction of a permanent home for 40 vulnerable children (the…
(Summer 2014) Malte Ahrens, ’17
Malte Ahrens (’17, Undeclared) Malte will be working with the World Bank over the summer. There he will be collaborating with start-ups, businesses, NGOs and governments to support transparency and open…
(Summer 2014) Tunde Alawode, G
Tunde (Babatunde) Alawode (G, Mechanical Engineering)   Tunde spent his summer in Lagos, Nigeria working to improve the learning experiences of students at his alma mater university. He established a D-lab…
(Summer 2014) Open Style Lab
Grace Teo,  (G, HST)  Grace spent the summer working with Open Style Lab, an MIT-based summer education program dedicated to creating innovative clothing solutions for people with disabilities who often…
(Summer 2014) Tamanna Urmi, ’16
Tamanna Urmi (’16, Environmental Science & Mechanical Engineering)    This summer, Tamanna piloted Ways2Clean, a mechanism to clean-up and create a waste stream in Dinajpur, Bangladesh.  Without Ways2Clean, uncollected and untreated waste accumulates…