D-Lab Scale-Ups awards funds to three MIT social entrepreneurs
D-Lab Scale-Ups, launched in 2011, piloted its acceleration platform for MIT alumni innovators and entrepreneurs last year. The fellowship program provides financial and mentoring support ...

MIT Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator announces 2013 student teams
Fourteen teams will participate in this year’s MIT Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator (MIT GFSA), an international entrepreneurship program that provides student entrepreneurs with the skills ...

Students with toys: Not just playing around
Their theme might have been “in the dark,” but the MIT students who participated in this year’s 2.00b (Toy Design), a first-year elective in mechanical ...

Water purification process named 'Technology Idol of the Year'
The humidification-dehumidification (HDH) carrier gas extraction process developed by Prakash Narayan and colleagues in Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor John H. Lienhard’s research group has ...