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Preparing for the next pandemic
TPP student and former US Army medical officer Molly McGuigan models PPE need for healthcare facilities from hospitals to dentist offices.... READ MORE -
Access to energy, education, and experience in Africa
Shakes Dlamini co-founded an education nonprofit in his home country of Eswatini, worked for an African energy company to learn more about electricity access, and now studies mercury emissions as a student at TPP.... READ MORE
TPP addresses societal challenges through research and education at the intersection of technology and policy. Our goal is to mobilize science and engineering to inform intelligent, responsible strategies and policies to benefit communities from local to global.
Fly me to the moon
Graduating TPP student Becca Browder is taking her research on commercial spaceports to a new job at SpaceX – and has worked for years to get an MIT experiment on the moon.MIT IDEAS celebrates 20 years of social innovation at MIT
Thandolwethu Dlamini, a TPP graduate student, founded The Knowledge Institute, which earned a $20,000 grant at the 20th annual MIT IDEAS Social Innovation Awards.MIT unveils a new action plan to tackle the climate crisis
“The proposed new Sustainability Policy Hub, coordinated by TPP, will help MIT students and researchers engage with decision makers on topics that directly affect people and their well-being today and in the future,” says Noelle Selin, director of TPP.There are no upcoming events at this time.
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