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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

Yamilée Toussaint was a PKG Fellow and founded STEM From Dance. Yamilée Toussaint has always been passionate about two seemingly unrelated things: dancing and mathematics. Growing up on Long Island…

When summer temperatures spike, so does our vulnerability to heat-related illness or even death. For the most part, people can take measures to reduce their heat exposure by opening a…