Much is made of the impact of companies founded by MIT alumni, and of the entrepreneurial culture fostered at the Institute. But less widely noted is the impact of non-profit organizations led and founded by our alumni, carrying out MIT’s parallel culture of social entrepreneurship.
Over the years, alumni of the School of Architecture + Planning have been prominent among the Institute’s social entrepreneurs with scores, perhaps even hundreds of graduates holding leadership positions in well-established non-profits. And in recent years a growing number of those non-profits have actually been founded by our alumni.
The capsule descriptions included here provide a brief overview of some of those efforts.
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This illustration shows a lead sulfide quantum dot array. Each quantum dot (the colored clusters) is 'passivated' by molecules that bind to its surface. Dots that are made up of unequal amounts of lead and sulfur tend to cause electrons (shown in red) to become highly localized, which can substantially lower the electrical transport of the device.Image: Donghun Kim and Jeffrey C. Grossman
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