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PSC in the News

• March 25, 2013
  New grants help amplify impact of MIT IDEAS Global Challenge teams
• February 21, 2013
  Awards recognize students' commitment to public service
• February 19, 2013
  Mathematical philanthropy
• January 15, 2013
  Kirana stores retail solar products (Essmart Global featured in The Times of India)
• December 21, 2012
  A digital portal to bring together the best in music
• December 18, 2012
  Graduate student David Sengeh gives back to Sierra Leone
• December 13, 2012
  Bose Corporation and MIT students meet for speed mentorship
• December 4, 2012
  Building a better world
• October 22, 2012
  CityDays Serve-Off brings MIT student communities to the local community
• September 21, 2012
  CityDays celebrates its 21st birthday, and you're invited
• September 20, 2012
  Alumni bring autoclaves to the developing world
• August 6, 2012
  Bringing power to the poor - and heat as well: Sun-powered system developed by MIT students could provide electricity, heat and cooling to rural schools and clinics
• July 5, 2012
  Matthew Orosz awarded Echoing Green Fellowship to further off-grid energy work
• June 18, 2012
  Recovers.org awarded $340,000 from the Knight News Challenge on Networks
• June 15, 2012
  Essmart Global awarded grand prize in Dell Social Innovation Competition
• June 5, 2012
  Public service projects from MIT's Class of 2012
• May 14, 2012
  Rising to the Challenge
• May 4, 2012
  Innovative IDEAS
  
  MIT’s Global Challenge Awards Money to 13 Socially Conscious Teams with Big IDEAS
• April 20, 2012
  IDEAS Global Challenge coordinator discusses intersection of innovation and public service
• April 18, 2012
  Studying the effects of coconuts being made into biofuel
  
• April 10, 2012
  Donations from Community Giving at MIT advance work of nonprofits and volunteers
  
• April 9, 2012
  IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: True Africa
• March 27, 2012
  IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: wecyclers
  
• March 15, 2012
  IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: Imaginate
  
• March 8, 2012
  IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: Essmart
  
• February 28, 2012
  Sustainable approaches to reducing food waste in India
  
• February 24, 2012
  IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: Recovers.org
• February 24, 2012
  Solving a charcoal shortage in a Nairobi shantytown
  
• February 23, 2012
  A four-week commitment, a long-lasting impact
  
• February 8, 2012
  MIT IDEAS Global Challenge teams innovate around the world during IAP
  
• February 2, 2012
  Community Service Day draws volunteers from across the Institute
  
• January 5, 2012
  Students address hunger in MIT’s backyard: MIT students establish new soup kitchen in Central Square
  
• December 5, 2011
  Brothers of Phi Beta Epsilon win first annual FSILG&D Communtiy Service Challenge Photo Contest: Students showcase photos of living group’s community service work
  
• November 30, 2011
  “Movember” at MIT: Changing the face of men’s health: Moustaches sprout around campus all month in support of prostate cancer research
  
• November 8, 2011
  Public Service @ MIT In and out of the water: Athletics and academics converge in Amphibious Achievement
  
• July 12, 2011
  Bringing light to the poor, one liter at a time
  (Ilac Diaz ‘06 was on the FirstStep Coral and Peanut Revolution IDEAS winning teams)
  
• June 3, 2011
  PSC-backed Sanergy, a team of students led by Ani Vallabhaneni '11 and David Auerbach '11, awarded Echoing Green Fellowship.
  
• May 31, 2011
  With exponential growth, Camp Kesem at MIT prepares for its fifth session
  
• May 12, 2011
  PSC-backed Sanergy take top prize in the $100K Business Plan Competition.
  
• May 6, 2011
  New water-filter factory in Ghana: After years of development, production of ceramic-pot water filters should soar with opening of new facility.
  
• May 4, 2011
  Spotlight on service IDEAS and Global Challenge competitions award nearly $150,000 to teams of public service innovators working around the world.
  
• May 4, 2011
  Amphibious Achievement teaches valuable lessons in and out of the water
  
• May 3, 2011
  Winners of the MIT Global Challenge announced
  
• April 25, 2011
  Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity takes home the inaugural Service Cup
  
• April 13, 2011
  Vodafone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Project awards announced. The people behind PerfectSight, a 2010 IDEAS Competition Award winner, and CoolComply, an Innovations in International Health project, win.
  
• April 12, 2011
  Eyes on the prize for service 20 MIT student teams participate in the FSILG&D Community Service Challenge.
  
• April 10, 2011
  Phi Delta Theta raises over $8,800 in their fundraiser for the Japanese Red Cross.
  
• April 10, 2011
  Phi Delta Theta has raised over $8,800 in their fundraiser for the Japanese Red Cross.
  
• April 6, 2011
  Cast your vote in the MIT Global Challenge. Community Choice Voting continues through April 25.
• March 30, 2011
  Janet Li '12 Blogs on the MIT Admissions Blog about Service Learning class 11.027 experience in New Orleans.
  
• March 18, 2011
  Planting the SEID: Sloan Entrepreneurs for International Development help Assured Labor grow.
  
• March 8, 2011
  Celebrating women in public service on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day.
  
• March 3, 2011
  Saba Gul '06, SM '09: Reaching out to Middle Eastern girls in need.
  
• February 24, 2011
  Green Grease Project, a 2010 IDEAS Competition winning team, is in MIT News..
  
• February 24, 2011
  Rickshaw-pulling made easy, with some help from MIT Public Service Fellow Edward Burnell featured in Indian Express article.
  
• February 16, 2011
  Rhonda Jordan G of EGG-energy, a 2009 IDEAS Competition winning team, featured in Spectrum
  
• February 3, 2011
  MIT team highlighted in National Trust for Historic Preservation blog
  
• January 31, 2011
  Young Utah engineer tackles world's toughest problems
  
• January 25, 2011
  How a simple phone call could provide Haitians with work
  
• January 24, 2011
  The Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center (BYLC) (formerly Building Bridges through Leadership Training), a Davis Projects for Peace award winner, wins $120,000 grant. BYLC was developed by Shammi Quddus '10 and Ejaj Ahmad from Harvard.
  
• January 10, 2011
  Six groups from MIT in the running for the Echoing Green 2011 Fellowship Semifinalists
  
• January 5, 2011
  Coming soon: The MIT Global Challenge
  
• December 21, 2010
  12 MIT students to participate in this year's Four Weeks for America Challenge
  
• December 13, 2010
  Two MIT teams design winning solutions for New Orleans
• December 9, 2010
  Two MIT teams design winning solutions for New Orleans
• December 8, 2010
  Community Giving at MIT: power in numbers Undergrads bring energy education to Ghana
• December 6, 2010
  Public Service Fellow, Sherife AbdelMessih '09, created SPARK!, an entrepreneurship program for Egyptian youth. He was recently profiled by Yahoo as one of the top social entrepreneurs in Egypt.
• December 1, 2010
  To Prevent Disease, MIT Students Create For-Profit Toilet Franchises
• November 22, 2010
  To Prevent Disease, MIT Students Create For-Profit Toilet Franchises
• November 19, 2010
  Winners of the World Changing Ideas Video Contest: Scientific American Leveraged Freedom Chair, a 2008 IDEAS winner, wins Scientific American's 2010 World Changing Ideas Video Contest
  Turning waste into profit
• November 11, 2010
  The Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), a 2008 IDEAS Competition award winner, wins Editor's Choice Award at the R&D 100 Awards.
• November 5, 2010
  Undergrads raise thousands for PSC In giving campaign, classes compete to raise money for project grants
• October 22, 2010
  MIT teams dominate national energy contest, among them the Solar Turbine Group, a 2005 IDEAS Competition team.
• October 20, 2010
  D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution Features 2008 IDEAS Competition team, Sustainable Health Enterprises
• October 20, 2010
  Class President and invaluable PSC student staff member Amanda David shares her love of service. Reprinted from Sloan@MIT News
• September 27, 2010
  International prize for solar cooker: Low-cost portable device developed at MIT wins major prize in Netherlands competition.
• September 23, 2010
  Text Here for a New Job: The MIT offspring, Assured Labor, connects job-seekers with employers via mobile SMS.
  Take the Four Weeks for America Challenge and find out what it's like to Teach For America.
• September 23, 2010
  BLISS at a State Department Dinner
• September 15, 2010
  Meet the Top 10 College Women of 2010: Amazing Women You Haven't Heard of... Yet!
• September 8, 2010
  MIT develops smartphone-based eye exam
• August 30, 2010
  Vision tests via cellphone could aid poor nations SANA, Narayana Hrudayalaya to launch m-Health project
• July 30, 2010
  iHouse receives 484 Phi Alpha Foundation grant
• July 20, 2010
  The Leveraged Freedom Chair - First Guatemalan Prototype
• July 15, 2010
  In The World: Breath of life
• July 9, 2010
  Mind and Hand and Chocolate
• July 1, 2010
  Jodie Wu '09 and Jamie Yang PhD '08 selected as 2010 Echoing Green Fellows
• June 23, 2010
  In The World: Easy on the eyes
  Smartphone add-on will bring eye tests to the masses
• June 15, 2010
  From Boston to Nairobi, Public Service Fellows, Interns, and Grantees are hard at work.
• June 9, 2010
  Swetha Kambhampati, Vinayak Muralidhar, and Caroline Huang featured in USA TODAY's 2010 All-USA College Academic Team
• June 6, 2010
  This year's FUP will be held August 24-28, 2010. Pre-freshman can apply to participate. Deadline is this Friday, June 11th! Apply now!.
• June 8, 2010
  The ASME Innovation Showcase awarded first prize to the Leveraged Freedom Chair, a 2008 IDEAS Competition award winner. The 6dot Braille Labeler, a 2009 IDEAS Competition award winner, was second.
• May 25, 2010
  Building a brighter future in Siem Reap, Cambodia
• May 5, 2010
  Winners of the ninth annual MIT IDEAS Competition announced
• May 1, 2010
  Changing the world through service.
• April 29, 2010
  In The World: Clean Water for Ghana
• April 28, 2010
  2008 IDEAS Competition team, Assured Labor, secures 1 million in seed funding
• April 21, 2010
  Swetha Kambhampati '10 wins Merage American Dream Fellowship
• April 19, 2010
  Mobile health platform wins $150,000 in prizes
• April 18, 2010
  Ghonsla, a 2009 IDEAS team that developed afforable insulation made from waste materials, is a finalist in the Unreasonable Marketplace.
• April 15, 2010
  Volunteer at the Student Science Showcase! Tuesday, April 27, 10am-noon
• March 30, 2010
  Building peace between border zones, one diagnosis at a time
• March 24, 2010
  A smoother wheelchair ride.
• March 19, 2010
  MIT Student Invention Deployed in Haiti to Save Lives
  AllHeal was a 2006 IDEAS Competition Award winning team
• March 8, 2010
  MIT's levered wheelchair extends freedom to Third World
• March 2, 2010
  Revitalizing the land of plenty with affordable housing
• February 24, 2010
  Come to the IDEAS Generator Dinner on Wednesday, February 24, at 6:00 pm in Morss Hall-Walker Memorial.
• February 18, 2010
  New wheelchair gets its first real-world test
• February 17, 2010
  Telemedicine in the making: Moca source code released
• March 24, 2010
  
• February 5, 2010
  Broad Street comes alive with stories, photos
• January 21, 2010
  Kendra Johnson '09 Revisits Public Service Project
• Janurary 20, 2010
  Graduate students Aditi Mehta and Jacquelyn Dadakis, awarded second place in JPMorgan Chase Competition
• January 10, 2010
  Submit a proposal for a Davis Projects for Peace $10,000 fellowship!
• January 6, 2010
  Researching and writing a thesis (and a blog) in Tanzania
• December 14, 2009
  Four Weeks for America launches its third IAP challenge
• December 11, 2009
  More than 700 children received gifts through the 2009 MIT Giving Tree. Thank you for your generosity.
• December 9, 2009
  Reporter's Notebook: Emergency measures
• December 8, 2009
  New student magazine highlights international development opportunities
• November 23
  Three MIT students are Rhodes Scholars
• October 29, 2009
  IDEAS Competition team Lebônê Solutions wins Popular Mechanics award
• October 19, 2009
  Tish Scolnik '10 selected as one of Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College Women
• October 15, 2009
  Top 10 College Women: The Inventor
• September 23, 2009
  Portable Braille printer makes labeling a snap
• September 21, 2009
  Braille made simple
• September 19, 2009
  XOutTB (formerly New DOTS) a 2006-2007 IDEAS Competition team, awarded a $50K grant from Harvard Catalyst
• September 13, 2009
  Kate Clopeck SM '09 blogs about Community Water Solutions, a project she began in 2008 as a Public Service Fellow
• August 14, 2009
  6dot Braille Labeler: An Intuitive Labeling System for the Blind
• August 27, 2009
  MIT senior puts her 'heart' into Boys & Girls Club Work
• September 14, 2009
  More blogs from students in Dar es Salaam, Uganda, Peru, and Western China
• September 3, 2009
  CityDays, a one-day campus-wide community service event kicks off the school year on Friday, September 4
• August 24
  Public Service Grantees Sam Kronick ('10 Course 4) and William McKenna ('09 Course 4) are working at Prospect Hill Charter Academy in Cambridge leading workshops in the construction of a customizable outdoor classroom.
• August 18
  José Gómez-Márquez, part of the 2005 IDEAS Competition team, Aerovax, is named 2009 Humanitarian of the Year by Technology Review
• August 6, 2009
  Watch this year's graduates discuss their public service projects on TechTV
• July 18, 2009
  Mobile Diagnostices (MoCa), a 2009 IDEAS Competition team, was a semi-finalist in the Dell Social Innovation Competition
• July 2, 2009
  A phone is not just a phone
• May 12, 2009
  Sol Source Project, a 2007-08 IDEAS Competition award winning team, wins the 2009 $75K St Andrews Prize for the Environment
• May 10, 2009
  Sol Source team member Catlin Powers is guest blogging on Change.org
• June 12
  Beating the Odds and Buying Donkeys
• May 12, 2009
  MIT student project wins coveted EPA award
• May 5, 2009
  Eight teams win IDEAS awards
• May 2, 2009
  World Vision Report: Emerge Global Jewelry
• April 15, 2009
  TB Drug Compliance: Paper drug tests and text messaging could help thwart the most deadly strains of tuberculosis
• April 11, 2009
  Did you know that Public Service Summer Housing grants can subsidize rent for MIT students who work half-time or more on public service during the summer?
• April 1, 2009
  China offers free mobile phone credit in the battle to fight tuberculosis
• March 18, 2009
  Congratulations to Mihai Duduta ('10 Course 3) who was recognized by the National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) with the Induction Recognition Award.
• March 17, 2009
  Eleni Orphanides ('10 Course 14) awarded a Davis Projects for Peace Prize for Language for Ledra.
• March 1, 2009
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Saying All the Right Things
• February 19, 2009
  MIT Students Engineer Pedal-Powered Washing Machine
• Pedaling for Clean Laundry
• Spin cycle: a new kind of washer.
• February 13, 2009
  Senior wins Gates scholarship
• January 21, 2009
  MIT Alumni - Can You Help?
• January 20, 2009
  Assured Labor Launches Trust-Driven Job Marketplace
• Assured Labor on Thrillist
• January 10, 2009
  Public Service Projects over IAP 2009 : Read more about Public Service Fellows, Value-Added Internships, and Grantees.