Via @mitspokes on Instagram: “Check out Sophia and Simone doing some lab testing in @mit.nano one of their berry powered solar cell! This is one of the workshops we plan to host at learning festivals over the summer!”

Rise Bionics creates custom prosthetics and orthotics for patients in India, at a fraction of the cost of comparable devices. The goal: to make these devices “affordable and accessible to all,” says founder and MIT D-Lab Scale Ups Fellow Arun Cherian.

Via @medialab on Twitter: “Pattie Maes, director of the @fluidinterfaces group, has spent her career thinking about ways that technology can help people make decisions and deepen their connections with other people. She tells @stevenbjohnson, ‘I’m in love with people, not machines!’”

RLE researchers have built a portable desalination unit that generates clear, clean drinking water without filters or high-pressure pumps. The suitcase-sized device requires less power than a cell phone charger and can run on a small solar panel.

A 76-year-old lawyer and MIT alumnus is America’s oldest competitive snowboarder: Dick Schulze ’67 has traced a unique career, from electrical engineer to patent lawyer to powder shredder, once even competing against Olympian Shaun White.

Converging trends have led to “an imbalance of power at work that needs to be addressed,” says Thomas Kochan. But a new social contract can guide companies to develop working models that deliver for shareholders, employees, and global communities.