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PKG Fellowship Community Partner, TestBeds, and PKG Fellow, Gabriel Castro-Andrade featured in Arts in MIT Newsletter!
Written by Naveen KumarEditorial direction by Leah Talatinian Jaffer Kolb and his collaborators are working to turn architectural waste into shared community infrastructure When Jaffer Kolb, a lecturer in the Department…
PKG Student, Lauren Higgins (’26) featured by South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation!
Lauren Higgins hopes to make an impact in the neighborhood during her time as South Boston NDC’s Climate Action summer intern.  “I’m hoping to make something lasting in climate action…
Social Impact Internships: Salomé Otero (’23)
Hi, I am Salomé! I am a current senior in 15-1 (management with a concentration in education analytics); I spend my time studying and researching at the intersection of computer…
Social Impact Internships: Rudiba Laiba (’25)
Hi! I’m Rudiba, a sophomore majoring in Biology (course 7). This IAP, I interned with LAAL NYC. I learned how to analyze data, bookkeep, create surveys to measure impact and…
2023 PKG Public Service Award Undergraduate Recipient: Wilhem Hector ’25
“I wanted to learn science, and MIT is the best place in the world to learn science,” were the thoughts of a high school-aged Wilhem Hector from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, dreaming…
2023 PKG Public Service Award Graduate Recipient: Cecilé Sadler
The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory founded in 1985 that creates transformative technologies, experiences, and systems that enable people to re-imagine and redesign their lives. Cecilé Sadler,…
Social Impact Internships: Nicholas Liu (’26)
Hello! I’m Nicholas, a first-year undergraduate student interested in computer science, data science, and economics. Over IAP, I was a food waste data intern at the World Wildlife Fund, one…
Social Impact Internships: Kieran Dunn (’26)
My name is Kieran Dunn, and I am a freshman at MIT studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Over the most recent IAP, I worked as a Peer City Analyst…
MIT EECS and PKG Course 6.900 “Engineering For Impact” featured by MIT News!
Think back to the last time you had to wait for a bus. How miserable were you? If you were in Boston, your experience might have included punishing wind and…
MIT PKG IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge Grants More Than $60,000 to Student-led Teams to Address Pressing Societal Issues
Written by Helen Wajda This article was featured on MIT News! Click here to see the article on their website. Now in its 22nd year, the MIT Priscilla King Gray (PKG)…