Three PKG Students awarded 2023 Fulbright Fellowships!
Thirteen MIT undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have been awarded Fulbright fellowships and will embark on projects overseas in the 2023-24 grant year. Four other MIT affiliates were offered awards…
PKG Fellow, Ana Velarde (’24) awarded MIT Change-Maker Award!
Ana Velarde has been recognized as the 2023 Outstanding Undergraduate Student for her work that challenges the cultural norms regarding sexual violence and harassment. Ana was a summer 2023 PKG…
PKG Alum, Mercy Oladipo featured in MIT News!
Choosing a major was a long process for Mercy Oladipo. Coming into MIT, she was interested in both computer science and medicine, but a plan for how those passions would…
PKG IAP ’23 Fellowship: Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar
Q: How has the PKG Center helped you in your fellowship? A: The main help has come in the form of being able to advance my work given that traveling…
PKG IAP ’23 Fellowship: Ahmad Zakka
Background Poor poultry farmers in Cameroon have been dealing with the biggest hardship when it comes to brooding their chicks. Previously, they have had to harness energy stored in wood…
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…
Former PKG Students, Matthew Kearney and Jupneet Singh, named 2023 Rhodes Scholars
Matthew Kearney and Jupneet Singh are two of three MIT students who have been awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship! The Rhodes Scholarship is a fully funded, full time, postgraduate award…
PKG Fellowship and IDEAS Alum: Takachar featured in MIT News!
Takachar co-founder, Kevin Kung SM ’13, PhD ’17, received PKG Fellowship funding to begin this project. In addition, Takachar, was an IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge grantee in 2012 and received…
Davis Projects for Peace Fellowship Featured in The Times of Israel!
Summer 2022 Davis Projects for Peace Fellow Mohamed Mohamed ’22 (Course 16) worked in collaboration with the BGUrban Lab. The Lab and its affiliates are deeply embedded in issues facing…
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…
