Second-year master of city planning student Amelia Taylor-Hochberg spent IAP 2019 working with the Consensus Building Institute (CBI), a nonprofit focused on facilitation, mediation, citizen engagement, and organizational strategy and…
Welcome to our staff profile series! In the next coming months, we look forward to introducing you to each member of our wonderful PKG team. First up, Danny Becker! Danny…
Former PKG Fellow, Yazmin Guzman, was named the 2019 Gates Cambridge Scholar! Read all about her work and future plans on the MIT News. Congratulations Yazmin! “Guzman, from Wichita, Kansas,…
PKG Fellow, Julia Ginder, was feature in the MIT News for her work studying peanut allergies in the Christopher Love Lab, as well as her commitment to community and her…
Congratulations to Larissa Nietner and Scott Nill! Co-founders of IDEAS team STEMGem–a wearable coding unit designed to engage young girls in STEM–and fellow PhD graduates, Nietner and Nill have a…
MIT students are privileged to have the entire month of January to push their learning forward through projects of their own choosing. I decided I wanted to spend IAP contributing…
This IAP I continued my work study from the fall at Just-A-Start YouthBuild, a non-profit organization in Cambridge committed to helping out of school youth complete their HiSET, the equivalent…
Blog Post 1 Gusts of different food aromas had dissipated. The soundtrack of clinking forks, chitchat, and crying babies had died down. Our flight attendants were clearing up our trays…
by Devon Capizzi For many, climate change can feel as unstoppable as it is inaccessible. A field of study so reliant on data, and scientific projections, and research often feels beyond…
I was excited to jump back into my work as a Research Intern for the Massachusetts Science & Engineering Fair (MSEF) again. After taking a break during the Fall 2018…