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Alumni and supporters look to MIT in time of crisis

Outpouring of support from MIT’s worldwide community bolsters Institute’s Covid-19 response

Members of the MIT community living all over the world have reached out to offer support for the Institute’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, prompting the creation of two new funds to support MIT’s efforts to help address the public health crisis.

A variety of companies with MIT ties are working to address aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

MIT-affiliated companies, including some with founders who are faculty members at HST and IMES, take on COVID-19

As the world grapples with the public health crises and myriad disruptions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, many efforts, including at companies affiliated with MIT, are working to address its impact.

GradSAGE Leadership Sub-Committee members

A new way to prepare graduate students to lead in tech

An advisory group comprised of MIT graduate students, including two HST MEMP PhD students, has led to a new graduate certificate offered through the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program will launch this fall.

Students take action to respond to the challenge of Covid-19

A team of students from Harvard Medical School, including a number of HST MD and MD-PhD students, responded quickly to organize grassroots efforts against the Covid-19 pandemic. They identified two main opportunities for impact: activism and education.

How the Greater Boston biomedical community is tackling the coronavirus

Two recent articles, in Science magazine and in The Boston Globe, describe the grass-roots effort in the Greater Boston area to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.