Haiti
MIT and Haiti sign agreement to promote Kreyòl-language STEM education
April 17, 2013
Initiative designed to help Haitians gain technical education.
Photo finish: Sloanies team up to create Bounce Imaging
November 21, 2012
Low-cost camera targeted for first responders, military
Q&A: Michel DeGraff on teaching STEM in Kreyòl
October 25, 2012
A model for reaching science-hungry students around the world who speak local languages
DeGraff awarded $1 million NSF grant to continue linguistics research in Haiti
October 3, 2012
Funding will help develop classroom tools to teach science and math in Creole for the first time.
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
Oxfam President Ray Offenheiser on Oxfam's efforts in Haiti
Dean's Innovative Leader Series
May 24, 2010
Presented by MIT Sloan School of ManagementDean's Innovative Leader Series
Also labeled: Earthquakes, Leadership
Helping out in Haiti
April 28, 2010
A wave of student and faculty efforts in SA+P
The long road for Haiti
April 21, 2010
Haitian leaders speak at MIT about reconstruction
Also labeled: Administration, Diversity, Faculty, Special events and guest speakers, Staff, Students
In the World: Better wound treatment for all
April 14, 2010
A streamlined version of 'negative-pressure' wound therapy is put to the test in Haiti — and could have 'enormous potential' across the developing world.
Two MIT classes focus on helping Haiti
March 5, 2010
Students and teachers lend mind and hand to the rebuilding
Rebuilding Haiti
March 3, 2010
MIT scholars with ties to Haiti discuss the country's future
GAMBIT Game Lab to raise Haiti funds with "Complete Game-Completion Marathon"
February 18, 2010
On February 26-28th, the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab will host the 2010 Complete Game-Completion Marathon to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti.
President's letter to the community on Haiti
February 16, 2010
Efforts underway to assist after January earthquake.
3 Questions: Bradford Hager on Haiti’s coming quakes
January 28, 2010
The MIT geophysicist expects more earthquakes could hit the region relatively soon.
Reporter’s Notebook: Workshop seeks answers to Haiti crisis
January 21, 2010
Community members gather information with an eye toward developing long-term strategies to assist the quake-devastated nation.
3 Questions: Lawrence Vale on rebuilding Haiti
January 20, 2010
An MIT urban design expert explains why devastated cities are nearly always rebuilt — but why Haiti faces special challenges to reconstruction.
Public Service Center coordinating information about MIT community relief efforts in Haiti
January 15, 2010
Current information on the situation in Haiti can also be found on the Center for Future Civic Media web site
MIT begins response to Haitian earthquake
January 15, 2010
Fund for MIT-led efforts established, efforts under way
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