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…
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…
PKG Fellow, Yamilée Toussaint featured by CNN Heroes!
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…
PKG Fellows, Dr. Ufuoma Ovienmhada and Dr. Danielle Wood featured in MIT News!
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…
PKG Fellow and IDEAS Alum, Professor Amos Winter Featured by Esses!
Professor Amos Winter had a number of PKG Fellowships working on wheelchair design with partners in developing countries and his team was an IDEAS Awardee for the Leveraged Freedom Chair (which…
PKG Fellow Ben Lewis Awarded the Collier Medal!
Summer ’23 PKG Fellow and participant in the Effective Philanthropy course, Ben Lewis has been awarded the Collier Medal! His classmates nominated him for founding End Overdose Boston, which has…
Biopic Released of PKG Fellow Srikanth Bolla: ‘Srikanth’!
Srikanth Bolla received multiple PKG Fellowships during his time at MIT, including one to pilot the company that grew into Bollant Industries. The following review was written by Deepa Gahlot.…
PKG Social Impact Intern Cindy Xie Featured in MIT News!
Cindy Xie was a PKG Social Impact Intern during Summer 2021. Cindy a Food Sustainability and Food Justice Policy Intern for the World Wildlife Fund. Read more about Cindy’s internship…
2023 Davis Projects for Peace Fellow Wilhem Hector Featured by MIT Campaign for a Better World!
Wilhem Hector (’25) was awarded the 2023 Davis Projects for Peace Fellowship and the recipient of the 2023 PKG Public Service Award. Read more about Wilhem’s experience and service here!…
IDEAS Alum BendShelters Awarded $25K Grant by FIRE at MITdesignX!
BendShelters was a finalist at the 2024 MIT PKG IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge. BentShelters provides sustainable, modular, and easily deployable bamboo shelters for displaced populations in Myanmar, a Southeast Asian…
