The
official press release for the 2007-2008 Yunus Innovation Challenge
can be found here.
The official
press contact of the IDEAS Competition is Alison Hynd. Please contact
her regarding any press or media inquiries, including reprint permissions:
Alison Hynd
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Bld. W20-549
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 258-0691
ideas-admin@mit.edu
IDEAS
Teams in the News
We are
proud to share these news articles about IDEAS teams and participants:
"Solar
firm's focus: power to the people," The Boston Globe,
June 18, 2007, by Hiawatha Bray.
"Wind,
sun and tides power Biorock, MIT rehab for recovering coral reefs,"
Tech Talk, May 9, 2007, by Deborah Halber.
"Startup's
journey through a competition," Boston Business Journal,
March 9, 2007, by Lisa van der Pool.
"Filipino
MIT winners use electricity to spur coral growth," Inquirer.net,
February 1, 2007, by Carla Gomez.
"Inoculation
innovation: Aerosol vaccines may replace needles," CNET
News, October 20, 2006, by Michael Kanellos.
"Estudantes
surcaran Caribe en barco-museo," Diario Libre in the Dominican
Republic, August 21, 2006 by Jose Arias.
"Cracking
peanuts to solve world hunger," Ohmynews.com,
July 26, 2006, by Tuesday Gutierrez.
"New
device offers to assist in needle biopsies," Tech Talk,
July 19, 2006, by Sasha Brown.
"Social
Entrepreneur Illac Diaz: It's possible to change the world,"
Newsflash.org, June 12, 2006, by Sol Jose Vanzi.
"Students
win grant for Lesotho solar generator," Tech Talk,
June 7, 2006, by Sarah H. Wright.
"Taking
off - The Spray Team," The Boston Globe, June 4, 2006,
by Janice O'Leary.
"Students
float Caribbean museum boat," Tech Talk, May 24,
2006, by Sasha Brown.
"Young
Inventors," Forbes.com, March 29, 2006, by Leah
Hoffman.
Shedding
light on a literacy problem," Newsweek, December
12, 2005, by Jessica Silver-Greenberg.
"Robotic
Biopsy," Technology Review, October 2005, by Katherine
Bourzac.
"MIT
designs low-tech flood alarm," The Boston Globe,
October 10, 2005, by Marion Lloyd.
"Proving
their mettle by pedal: Local groups donate expertise, parts to Guatemalan
bicimaquina project," Boston Globe, July 17, 2005, by Simon
Rios.
"Students
tackle flooding in Honduras," Tech Talk, May 18, 2005,
by Sarah H. Wright. Republished in Science Daily.
"A
race to fix a 30-year-old 'solution'," Christian Science
Monitor, February 17, 2005, by Mark Clayton.
"Simple water
filter can nail arsenic," Science News, Volume 15, No. 23,
June 5, 2004, by Sid Perkins.
"MIT
filter cleans Nepalese drinking water," Tech Talk, March
9, 2004, by Elizabeth A. Thomson.
"A low-tech
plan to save lives," Boston Globe, February 8, 2003, by David
Arnold.
"Graduate
helps pay school fees for Ghanaian children," Tech Talk,
June 12, 2002, by Denise Brehm.
"Comings
& Goings: IDEAS competition," Civil & Environmental
Engineering at MIT, Volume 16, No. 3.
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