News Archive
December 2011
MIT’s CoLab Radio: Turning Activists Into Journalists From Around the World
By Lauren Landry of BostInno
August 2011
Viewpoint: Seeking a City of Truth
By CoLab Radio editor, Alexa Mills. Planning and Technology Today.
May 2011
Congratulations 2011 IDEAS Global Challenge Teams!
Biodiesel@MIT and Maa-Bara, receive MIT Public Service Center’s Global Challenge awards.
April 2011
Leading Thinkers in Urban Planning & Technology
CoLab Radio Editor, Alexa Mills, and student affiliate, Rob Goodspeed, named as two of the top 25 urban planning and technology thinkers.
April 2011
MACC Gala Thank You
MIT@Lawrence won the Community Partnership Award from Massachusetts Campus Compact, a coalition of 70 college and university presidents; the award recognizes sustained innovative partnerships between member campuses and a local organization.
April 2011
The Top Schools For Urban Planners
The planning department as a whole was again ranked #1 among the nation’s schools for urban planners by Planetizen, a public-interest information exchange for the urban planning, design and development community; this is the third time that DUSP has been recognized in this way – every time the ranking has been done, since the first time in 2006.
March 2011
CoLab Project Spotlight: Recycling Cooperatives in South and Central America
CoLab Project Spotlight on the MIT Center for Civic Media blog site: Recycling Cooperatives in South and Central America.
February 2011
In The World: Turning old oil into new mileage
Brazilian waste pickers gain an inexpensive way to fuel their vehicles using leftover cooking oil.
February 2011
The 10-Cent GPS
CoLab Visiting Scholar, Sebastiao Ferreira, cited on World Bank’s Blog.