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International PKG Fellowship galvanizes alumna’s interest in public service

Nearly 6 years removed from her PKG Fellowship Carey Dunfey still meditates on what she learned while in Columbia for a month thanks to the PKG Center. “It is probably…

Faculty Recipient of the 2023 Paul Gray Award for Public Service used research to inform infections disease policy during COVID-19 Pandemic

MIT Professor uses research to inform infections disease policy during COVID-19 Pandemic “It comes from the heart” is how Lydia Bourouiba, PhD, Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical…

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…

PKG Service Spotlight: Alumna founds STEM nonprofit rooted in her childhood memories

From childhood Netia McCray (’14), has deeply valued the representation of African American woman in education. As an adolescent, McCray remembers being snuggled up under her bed covers at night…

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…