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PKG Fellow Jack Carson Featured in MIT News!

Jack Carson, an MIT second-year undergraduate and EECS major, is the recent winner of the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics. At first glimpse, student Jack Carson might appear too busy…

PKG Student Akorfa Dagadu Named a Schwarzman Scholar!

Akorfa Dagadu was the team-lead for Ishara, an IDEAS 2023 grantee. Read more about Akorfa’s experience with IDEAS here! Akorfa Dagadu (10B) has been named a Schwarzman Scholar! Akorfa is an…

PKG Student Vivian Chinoda ’25 Named 2026 Rhodes Scholar!

Vivian Chinoda ’25 is one of four MIT students named a 2026 Rhodes Scholar. During IAP 2024, Chinoda interned at the MIT Federal Credit Union(FCU) as a Tech Equity Analyst…

Code.Tulsa Featured in MIT Spectrum!

Leveraging Tech for the Public Good in Tulsa Jack Carson ’28 partners with PKG Center on STEM education for Native American tribal youth By Christine Thielman MIT students have always…

PKG Student Anika Jane Beamer (SM ’25) Featured in MIT SHASS Video!

The MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing is a one-year master’s program in science journalism and communication. Offered by the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, this program…

PKG Student Wilhem Hector (’25) Featured in The Haitian Times

When Gil Sander Joseph and Wilhem Hector, both now 24, first met as teenagers at Institution Saint-Louis de Gonzague (ISLG), a Catholic school in Port-au-Prince, neither foresaw that a classroom…

PKG Student Titus Roesler (’25) Featured in MIT News!

During Summer 2023, Titus Roesler ‘25 was a Climate Action Plan Intern. Titus helped to organize the Bennett College-led Environmental Justice Coalition and its inaugural conference in the fall of 2022, set up a…

Amy Smith 2025 IDEAS Keynote Featured by MIT D-Lab!

Following is the text of the keynote address by Amy Smith at the MIT IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge Showcase and Award event. Good evening to everyone, and congratulations to all of the…

PKG IDEAS Featured in MIT News!

Fueling social impact: PKG IDEAS Challenge invests in bold student-led social enterprises Over nearly a quarter century, the program has invested $1.3 million in 300 ventures in 60 countries for…

Abbie Schipper, IDEAS alum and cofounder of LifeSaveHer, named a 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholar!

Abbie Schipper cofounded LifeSaveHer, a CPR training device to improve cardiac arrest survival rates for women. LifeSaveHer was the 2023 MIT PKG IDEAS Innovation Challenge $20,000 grantee. You can read…