PKG Fellow Publishes Article in The American Surgeon
Based on the work conducted during her PKG Fellowship and Social Impact Internship, Jupneet Singh ’23 (Course 5) recently published a research article in The American Surgeon. In Examining the…
PKG Social Impact Intern Publishes Blog Post with Bow Seat
PKG Social Impact Intern Aileen Han ’24 (Course 6) recently published a blog post as part of their internship with Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs. In Surprisingly Simple Steps for…
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…
IDEAS Alumni: OnePower featured in MIT News!
Matt Orosz’s mission for the last 20 years can be explained with a single picture: a satellite image of the world at night, with major cities blazing with light and…
Bhav Jain, PKG Social Impact Intern and IDEAS alum, named 2022 Truman Scholar!
MIT students Bhav Jain and Liberty Ladd have been selected as 2022 Truman Scholars. Truman Scholars demonstrate outstanding leadership potential, a commitment to a career in government or the nonprofit…
IDEAS Alum: The Practical Education Network featured in MIT News!
In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try engaging students from low-resource schools in hands-on learning projects. She began…
PKG Spring Break Alum Tanner Bonner (’22) featured in MIT News!
Tanner Bonner participated in the PKG Spring Break program in 2019, where he learned about and collaborated with local organizations dedicated to fighting climate change. Read below to learn about…
IDEAS Alum: Safi Organics featured in MIT News!
“Safi [Organics] is decentralizing fertilizer production such that it can be carried out in rural villages for the first time,” Safi co-founder and chief technology officer Kevin Kung SM ’13,…
IDEAS Alum: Biobot Analytics in the Boston Globe!
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. When talking with entrepreneurs Mariana Matus…
PKG Center Alumni: Where are they now?
In November 2021, the PKG Center invited three recent alumnae, Eleane Lema ‘21 (Course V-7), Ivana Alardin ‘21 (Course VI), and Flora Klise ‘21 (Course II), to share about their…
