Haiti
Erica Caple James receives $25,000 Levitan Prize in the Humanities
March 19, 2012
A 'consummate anthropologist'
Also labeled: Anthropology, Awards, honors and fellowships, Books and authors, Faculty, Human rights, Social sciences
A champion of Creole
May 12, 2011
Linguist Michel DeGraff is on a quest to give Haitian Creole its due as a respected language — and to help Haitian schoolchildren learn in their native tongue.
How a simple phone call could provide Haitians with work
January 25, 2011
Media Lab students deploy trial of free phone service in Port-Au-Prince to match Haiti's unemployed with reconstruction jobs.
CIS's Précis examines research, student work
December 20, 2010
Late fall edition of the biannual publication now available.
Paul Farmer on Rebuilding Haiti
December 16, 2010
Sponsored by MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics
Also labeled: Poverty, Special events and guest speakers
‘Build back better’
October 27, 2010
Symposium brings together MIT and Haiti educators to identify priority areas for collaboration.
Also labeled: Administration, Faculty, OpenCourseWare, Public service, Special events and guest speakers, Staff
In the World: Drinking water, from sunshine
October 15, 2010
MIT team designs solar-powered portable desalination system to use in disaster zones and remote regions.
Also labeled: Energy, Environment, Mechanical engineering, Students, Technology and society, Water, In the world
Said and Done
July 7, 2010
Humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for July 2010
Also labeled: Arts, Awards, honors and fellowships, Faculty, History, Humanities, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy, Social sciences
Haiti’s plight
June 18, 2010
MIT anthropologist Erica James examines the psychological damage inflicted on the island nation’s inhabitants.
Also labeled: Anthropology, Development, Economics, Government transparency, International development, Poverty
MIT in action in Haiti
May 24, 2010
While the devastation in Haiti may have slipped off the front pages, colleagues at MIT continue to help our neighbors address their monumental challenges, writes Chair of the Faculty Thomas Kochan.
Also labeled: Faculty








