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(Summer 2014) GlobeMed
Emma Broderick (’14, Chemical Engineering)  Alicia T. Singham Goodwin (’14, Math and Women’s & Gender Studies)  Kristen Finney (’16, Chemical Engineering) Emma, Kristen and Alicia spent this summer empowering Community Health…
(Summer ’13) Rafa Rahman
About Me Hi! I’m Rafa Rahman, a rising sophomore at MIT, in the Biological Engineering Department. This summer, I’m diving into my interest in global health and associated technologies through…
(Summer ’13) Maria Cassidy, ’14
Maria spent the summer in New Mexico interning at San Andres High School, now Rio Grande Preparatory Institute, an alternative high school that sees less than 30% of its students graduate…
(IAP ’14) John Maher,G
John was awarded funding over IAP 2014 to continue building upon the work he completed over Summer 2013.  John traveled to rural Ghana to build toilets for Gbalahi Village, which…
(Summer ’13) John Tebes, ’14
John was in Arusha, Tanzania, for the summer to scale-up the technological workshops of Bernard Kiwia, the co-founder and chief inventor of a community innovation center called Accelerating Innovation and Social…
(Summer ’13) Emily Williamson, G
Emily spent the summer in Cape Coast, Ghana. She worked with the Zongo, a small minority Islamic settlement, to create a long-term community-based strategy for new water systems through processes of…
(Summer ’13) Frances Rucker. ’16
Frances spent the summer working at Taktse International School in Gangtok, Sikkim. While there she set up a network for the computer system and helped make other improvements to their…
(Summer ’13) Annemarie Gray, G
Annemarie spent the summer interning at the Washington, DC Office of Planning working on a comprehensive sustainability plan for the city called Sustainable DC. She produced a report advising a local university…
(Summer ’13) MATI
MATI: MIT/UEM Activating Transformative Initiatives The word “mati”  means water in a local Bantu language spoken in our team’s fieldwork area. Our team of eight masters students and one professor…