Flavio Emilio Vila Skrzypek left his native country of Peru to pursue a master’s in city planning at MIT. He has made it his mission to improve land-use policy back home. “The state has accepted ‘slums’ as inevitable, but I want Peru to learn from these circumstances,” he says.
Elena Mendez-Escobar MBA ’15 is helping Boston Medical Center better serve its Black and Latino patients. “When you are at MIT, you can really pursue any passion in a low-risk way, and it can go much farther than you initially may have thought,” she says.
With collaborators from across MIT and Cambridge, attendees at the annual Winter Family Day enjoyed a day of activities and performances. The event was MIT Open Space Programming’s largest program, with an estimated turnout of 1,500 attendees.
Widespread adoption of electric vehicles might require costly new power plants to meet peak loads, according to some projections. But carefully planning where EV charging stations are built and when they’re used could mitigate that need, researchers report.
Via @mitmensrowing on Instagram: “Daylight savings = more sunrises”
DUSP researchers have built TILE2NET, an open-source tool that uses aerial imagery and image recognition to create complete maps of sidewalks and crosswalks. The tool can help planners anywhere who want to expand pedestrian infrastructure.
Fighting for impact on inequality, climate, and development, Geeta Sankappanavar ’98 is founder and CEO of Akira Impact, an investment firm focused on supporting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.