Publications all over the world have put the spotlight on the International Development Initiative's innovative programs and projects, as well as the students and other people who make them successful. We are proud to share these success stories as examples of how the growth of IDI's programs can benefit our partners overseas.
"Smart Pillbox Joins the Fight Against TB," New Scientist, February 4, 2008.
"Solutions for the Thrid World," MIT Spectrum, Spring, 2007
"Impoverished Haiti has sugar to burn," CNN, August 24, 2006.
"Bicycle ambulances wheel to rural Zambia," The Zambia Post, September 10, 2006, by Mercy Banda.
"Students win grant for Lesotho solar generator," Tech Talk, June 7, 2006.
"Com o MIT, Poli realiza ações em outros Estados," with "Poli promove engenharia social" and "O desafio de formar engenheiros comprometidos com os carentes," O Estadão de São Paulo, April 21, 2006.
"To the Rescue," Prism Magazine, March 2006.
"Sophomore's project aids Sri Lankan girls' home," Tech Talk, March 15, 2006, by Sasha Brown.
D-Lab featured on CNN Global Challenges, February 2006.
"MIT se une a empresas para criar 'tecnologia social'," O Estadão de São Paulo, January 11, 2006.
"Shedding Light on a Literacy Problem," Newsweek, December 12, 2005, by Jessica Silver-Greenberg.
"Innovation Awards: A Better Idea," Wall Street Journal, October 24, 2005, by Michael Totty. MIT's Susan Murcott and the Kanchan Arsenic Filter receive an Innovation Technology Awards in the Environment from the Wall Street Journal.
"MIT designs low-tech flood alarm," Boston Globe, October 10, 2005, by Marion Lloyd.
"Robotic Biopsy," Technology Review, October 2005, by Katherine Bourzac. [cached image]
"Earth's Innovators," Sierra Club Magazine, July/August 2005, by Dashka Slater.
"Proving their mettle by pedal: Local groups donate expertise, parts to Guatemalan bicimaquina project," Boston Globe, July 17, 2005, by Simon Rios.
"Shared beliefs engineer technical changes for better," Boston Globe, June 5, 2005, by Ron Fletcher.
"Students tackle flooding in Honduras," Tech Talk, May 18, 2005, by Sarah H. Wright. Republished in Science Daily.
"A race to fix a 30-year-old 'solution'," Christian Science Monitor, February 17, 2005, by Mark Clayton.
"Simple water filter can nail arsenic," Science News, Volume 15, No. 23, June 5, 2004, by Sid Perkins.
"MIT filter cleans Nepalese drinking water," Tech Talk, March 9, 2004, by Elizabeth A. Thomson.
"A low-tech plan to save lives," Boston Globe, February 8, 2003, by David Arnold.
"Graduate helps pay school fees for Ghanaian children," Tech Talk, June 12, 2002, by Denise Brehm.
"Comings & Goings: IDEAS competition," Civil & Environmental Engineering at MIT, Volume 16, No. 3.
"Necessity is the mother of invention," New York Times Magazine, November 30, 2003, by Pagan Kennedy.
