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)…
Three PKG Students awarded 2023 Fulbright Fellowships!
Thirteen MIT undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have been awarded Fulbright fellowships and will embark on projects overseas in the 2023-24 grant year. Four other MIT affiliates were offered awards…
PKG Alum, Mercy Oladipo featured in MIT News!
Choosing a major was a long process for Mercy Oladipo. Coming into MIT, she was interested in both computer science and medicine, but a plan for how those passions would…
IDEAS Alums named two of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2022
Biobot Analytics, co-founded by MIT alumna Dr. Mariana Matus and former DUSP Research Fellow Neswha Ghaeli, was a 2017 IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge awardee. Out of the Box, a mobile, modular…
Former PKG Students, Matthew Kearney and Jupneet Singh, named 2023 Rhodes Scholars
Matthew Kearney and Jupneet Singh are two of three MIT students who have been awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship! The Rhodes Scholarship is a fully funded, full time, postgraduate award…
PKG Service Spotlight: IDEAS Alum combats inequality with data
Food deserts, internet access, life expectancy, and single-parent homes. These are four random topics to most people, but to Jeremy Ney (MBA ’20), these are just the starting points for…
PKG Fellowship and IDEAS Alum: Takachar featured in MIT News!
Takachar co-founder, Kevin Kung SM ’13, PhD ’17, received PKG Fellowship funding to begin this project. In addition, Takachar, was an IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge grantee in 2012 and received…
IDEAS Alum: Essmart featured in MIT News!
Universities like MIT have produced a number of innovative products for people in low-resource communities around the world. But in order for those products to make an impact, they have…
IDEAS Alum: Insightiv featured in MIT News!
The world is facing a maternal health crisis. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 810 women die each day due to preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Two-thirds…
IDEAS Alumni: Piction Health featured in MIT News!
At the age of 22, when Susan Conover wanted to get a strange-looking mole checked out, she was told it would take three months to see a dermatologist. When the…
