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Design for the Developing World

In MIT D-Lab class 2.729, Design for Scale, students work with clients in the developing world to manufacture products in a more cost-efficient and effective way.

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Michelangelo didn’t attend a semester of lectures; he learned in the studio with a master looking over his shoulder.

- Professor Sanjay Sarma, Director of the Office of Digital Learning

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Senior and Rhodes Scholar Sarah Tress aims to use engineering to reduce hardships in developing countries

Nicholas Mabey SM ‘93 is helping solve climate change through policy making

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Senior and Rhodes Scholar Sarah Tress aims to use engineering to reduce hardships in developing countries

Nicholas Mabey SM ‘93 is helping solve climate change through policy making

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Graduate student Caroline Sorensen SM '16 is working to commercialize fusion energy

Seniors Alexis D'Alessandro and Hope Chen have been named 2019 Fulbright Fellows

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Students develop tech for people with disabilities at annual Assistive Technologies Hackathon

Professor Linda Griffith welcomes women’s health advocate and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi to MIT

Professor Gareth McKinley has been named a 2019 Fellow of the Royal Society

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