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.

Also labeled: Education, teaching, academics, Faculty, Linguistics, Literature, languages and writing, Social sciences

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.

Also labeled: IDEAS competition, Innovation and inventions, Public service, Students

CIS's Précis examines research, student work

December 20, 2010

Late fall edition of the biannual publication now available.

Also labeled: Center for International Studies, Economics, Foreign policy, Security studies and military, Social sciences, Urban studies and planning

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

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