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2024 PKG Public Service Award Undergraduate Recipient: Daisy Wang ’24

Combining career aspirations and public service Daisy Wang’s focus on social impact-oriented endeavors blossomed during her time at MIT, where she found a myriad of ways to give back to…

PKG IAP: Health Alum Charvi Sharma Awarded a 2024 Fulbright Fellowship!

Charvi Sharma (’24) participated in the PKG IAP: Health program and worked on the resources team of Boston Medical Center’s Autism Program. Read more about Charvi’s experience here! Eleven MIT undergraduates,…

IAP Health: Zuri Vallery (’27)

What does it mean to make a hospital more autism friendly? These were my first thoughts when I was assigned to the Autism Friendly Initiative with Alex Friedman, my supervisor.…

IAP Health: Michelle Peng (’27)

My name is Michelle Peng, and I am a first-year student at MIT planning on majoring in materials science and engineering with a focus on bioengineering. For the month of…

Social Impact Internships: Sav Lawrence (’24)

Hi, I’m Sav! I’m a rising senior (‘24) majoring in course 7 (biology) and minoring in WGS (women’s + gender studies). This summer, I worked as a research intern at…

Social Impact Interns, Anna Kwon and Nicole Doering, Awarded Jane Matlaw Environmental Champion Awards!

MIT senior Anna Kwon and sophomore Nicole Doering have been recognized by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) for their work as interns last summer. Both students received Jane Matlaw Environmental Champion…

IDEAS 2023 Finalist, Sunona (formerly PocketChart), Receives an Inaugural MIT Ingnite Flagship Prize!

Read more about Sunona (formerly PocketChart) here! This semester, students and postdocs across MIT were invited to submit ideas for the first-ever MIT Ignite: Generative AI Entrepreneurship Competition. Over 100 teams…

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)…

New Cross-Institute Fellowship Initiative with PKG Center featured in MIT News!

New MIT fellowship supports student research on governance innovation with Global South governments A new cross-institute initiative between MIT Governance Lab, MISTI, and the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center…

PKG Student, Anushree Chaudhuri named 2023 Udall Scholar!

Anushree was a summer 2021 Social Impact Intern and participated in the DUSP-PKG Fellowship program. Read more about their Intern experience here! MIT junior Anushree Chaudhuri has been selected as…