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Scientific American

MIT Jameel Clinic

Algorithms are making important decisions. What could possibly go wrong?

Michael Kremer with School Education Department officials at the State Samagra Shiksha office

Nobel laureate Michael Kremer praises education reforms in Andhra Pradesh

Jameel House in Cairo

«التنمية الثقافية»: «بيت جميل» من أهم مشروعات مركز الحرف التراثية

Hindustan Times

Ahmedabad becomes second city in country to implement emissions trading scheme

After Surat, emission trading scheme starts in Ahmedabad

J-WEL Education Innovation grantees

MIT researchers win grants to develop and test 14 innovative ideas to improve education

piezoelectric transducers that enable battery-free underwater communication

Device offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication

top: a person rowing a boat, bottom left: a person and a car on a street in an air-polluted area, bottom right: two people in waders standing in a body of water

India Education Diary

Bringing together researchers and policymakers: New clean air and water labs for climate solutions

A photograph of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab co-founder and Nobel laureate in economics, Esther Duflo.

Esther Duflo, prix Nobel d’économie : « Le sentiment qu’un pauvre l’est par sa faute est profondément ancré »

Carton illustration of an eye containing a standby button.

MIT Jameel Clinic

AI's impact on different jobs across the labor market

MIT Jameel Clinic

Sizing up AI's promise and limitations in cancer detection

flowchart of the ATAI open data portal

Center for Effective Global Action, University of California Berkeley

New open data platform to advance robust and comprehensive research in the agricultural sector

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MIT Technology Review

MIT Jameel Clinic

You need to talk to your kid about AI. Here are 6 things you should say

Regina Barzilay

MIT Jameel Clinic

Opinion: Here are the jobs AI will impact most

Leila Mirzagholi writes on a whiteboard

Uncovering how biomes respond to climate change

Jameel House in Cairo

غدا.. انطلاق المعرض الثاني لنتاج برنامج بيت جميل للفنون التراثية

Display of traditional art, Jameel House of Traditional Arts in Cairo

Al Asema Wel Nas

Jameel House in Cairo

انطلاق المعرض الثاني لنتاج برنامج بيت جميل للفنون التراثية

display of traditional art, Jameel House of Traditional Arts in Cairo

Jameel House in Cairo

معرض "بيت جميل": ابتكارات الحرف التقليدية والفنون التراثية بالتعاون مع مدرسة الأمير تشارلز

Illustration by Cheyenne Olivier, illustrator of the series of books written by Esther Duflo, 'Poverty explained for children'.

L’économiste Esther Duflo : « Il existe déjà énormément de marges d’action pour lutter contre la pauvreté »

display of traditional art, Jameel House of Traditional Arts in Cairo

Jameel House in Cairo

بمركز الحرف التقليدية بالفسطاط.. المعرض الثاني لنتاج برنامج بيت جميل للفنون التراثية

Illustration by Cheyenne Olivier

The Times of India

Small bites and bit bets: The challenge of philanthropy

A photograph of Esther Duflo and a colleague

Esther Duflo : « La lutte contre le réchauffement climatique est en retard de vingt ans par rapport à celle contre la pauvreté »

Photograph of Ester Duflo

Esther Duflo: « la lutte contre la pauvreté a toujours été avec moi »

Photograph of Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo : « Sur le fait d’aider les pauvres, nous sommes revenus à notre méfiance fondamentale »

Illustration of a government official sweeping money away under a flag.

How cynical leaders are whipping up nationalism to win and abuse power

The University of Edinburgh Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems

Jameel Observatory

Drylands partnership project looks toward delivering impact

A trio of photographs including: A man rowing a small boat on the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt; Harvesting in shallow water; A man walking on the street in a polluted city.

New clean air and water labs to bring together researchers, policymakers to find climate solutions

A close-up photograph of the Nobel prize medal

Who will be awarded the next Nobel Prize in Economics?

Woman holding virtual or enhanced reality device to her face

Bab Rizq Jameel

Bab Rizq Jameel empowers Saudis to explore space economy

A mother sitting with her head in her knees and her back to a crib with a baby inside

IBSA Foundation for scientific research

Jameel Arts & Health Lab

Motherhood: Relieving postpartum depression with song

Financial Times

MIT Jameel Clinic

Superbugs: Why it's so hard to stop the 'silent pandemic'

Explained: The 1.5 C climate benchmark

A photograph of construction of highways and roadworks in the Fustat, Cairo.

The New York Times

Jameel House in Cairo

In push to modernise Cairo, cultural gems and green spaces razed

A photograph of a pile of pharmaceutical drugs

MIT Jameel Clinic

AI-discovered drugs will be for sale sooner than you think

Participants of the MIT Jameel Clinic summer programme 2023 pose for a group photo.

MIT Jameel Clinic

How to help high schoolers prepare for the rise of artificial intelligence

Lina Marliani, executive director of J-PAL SEA, having a discussion with Simon Ernst, development counsellor of the Australian Embassy at the J-PAL SEA Gala Dinner in Jakarta, Indonesia

A decade of empowering change: Celebrating 10 years of improving lives through evidence in Southeast Asia

A photograph of the Jameel House of Traditional Arts in one of Cairo's oldest districts, Fustat.

National Geographic

Jameel House in Cairo

A guide to Cairo's craft heritage: Exploring ancient artisans & modern traditions

A photography of computer code language.

MIT Stephen A Schwarzman College of Computing awards seed grants to Cynthia Breazeal and Pattie Maes

Michigan school tutoring funds not likely until spring state officials say

Can the global air pollution crisis lead to effective climate action?

Package for a NHS at-home antibody test for coronavirus.

Imperial College London

Jameel Institute

COVID-19 antibody tests provide insights into risk of hospitalisation and death

hands holding pens and paper with printed text

Artificial intelligence for augmentation and productivity

A motion-corrupted MRI scan and a motion-corrected MRI scan placed side-by-side.

MIT Jameel Clinic

MIT researchers combine deep learning and physics to fix motion-corrupted MRI scans

An AI-generated artwork of side-by-side faces with skin colour variations.

MIT Jameel Clinic

How machine learning models can amplify inequities in medical diagnosis and treatment

Dried tree stumps on desert land

Water stress is on the rise - with cascading consequences worldwide

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My Startup World

Bab Rizq Jameel

StartSmart entrepreneurship competition successfully concludes the semifinals

A close-up of a pile of assorted pharmaceutical pills and medications.

MIT Jameel Clinic

Opinion: AI alone won’t solve the problem of antibiotic resistance

A series of work by the artist and glassmaker Shani MacLane.

MIT Office of Sustainability

Driving climate conversations with art

A man hits a piñata from which fake pharmaceutical pill bottle fall at a public demonstration.

US health care has been in crisis since Nixon–but J-PAL economist Amy Finkelstein may have found a way to radically disrupt it

A thumbnail of video hosted by Aboul Qomsan, the founder of the Egypt Centre for Women's Rights (ECWR), shared through social media.

Connecting Egyptian women to gender-based violence resources via social media during COVID-19

Street photography of two women walking down a shopping street in Cairo, Egypt.

Using social media to raise awareness of women's resources

An illustration by Cheyenne Oliver of a mother and children cooking in the kitchen.

The Times of India

Cultural capital, kabuli chana and college admissions

Jameel Institute

Ara Darzi: Antibiotic resistance is more frightening than COVID-19

Farmers in Niger constructing demi-lunes

Center for Effective Global Action, University of California Berkeley

Scaling up the impact of rainwater harvesting techniques on small-scale farming in Niger

MIT Jameel World Education Lab welcomes new member Anjuman-I-Islam

Yoky Matsuoka, former Google CTO, and Cynthia Breazeal, dean for digital learning at MIT.

Why MIT dean for digital learning Cynthia Breazeal and 50 over 50 founders say beware of AI ‘hallucination’

Paint pots and paint brushes scattered on the floor.

Jameel Arts & Health Lab

Arts activities promote health: An interview with Dr Nisha Sajnani, co-director of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab

Hands holding an open book on a page reading 'recovery'.

Jameel Arts & Health Lab

Les activités artistiques promeuvent la santé

A female teacher stands at a whiteboard instructing other teachers, seated in a classroom.

Egypt Impact Lab

Intensive training courses held in Beni Suef for developing children's public services

Teachers seated at a table listening to the explanation of another teacher, standing.

Egypt Impact Lab

'Al-Tadamun' implements advanced training courses to build the capacity of service providers in Beni Suef nurseries

Graphic composition of computer code encircling an image of the world

The Water Digest

Gradiant partners with SpaceAge Labs to drive digital AI solutions across total water infrastructure

A scanned mammogram image.

Diagnostic Imaging

MIT Jameel Clinic

Mammography-based deep learning model may help detect precancerous changes in high-risk women

Welcome message text next to image of Rohit Karnik, new associate director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab at MIT.

J-WAFS welcomes Rohit Karnik as new associate director

MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering

Understanding and mitigating the impacts of drought under climate change

Children gather around a table and use an educational app to learn to read.

Boston nonprofit develops app to bring literacy education to children in Central America

CT scans of lungs showing what an AI tool called Sybil can detect.

MIT Jameel Clinic

How artificial intelligence is being used to detect and treat cancer, but what are the potential risks for patients?

Addressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design

MIT Jameel Clinic

What can ubiquitous radio waves do for healthcare?

Art works and craft pieces on display for sale.

Jameel House in Cairo

An exhibition sale produced by the Jameel House of Traditional Arts in Cairo diploma students under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture

Cartoon drawing of patients in hospital beds.

The New York Times

We’re already paying for universal health care. Why don’t we have it?

Bocelli-Jameel Scholarship

Andrea Bocelli performs with Clara Barbier Serrano at Lourdes sanctuary in magnificent tribute to Our Lady

Researcher Mathias Kolle works with MIT students studying colour-changing materials.

Colouring outside the lines: A J-WAFS researcher's colour-changing materials

A young boy works on his school work at school.

Center for Global Development

Will raising test scores in developing countries produce more health, wealth and happiness later in life?

COP28 President Designate D. Sultan Al Jaber with UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Grant Shapps, the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, US President Joe Biden, His Majesty King Charles III, at a meeting in Windsor, England to discuss unlocking climate finance with a focus on developing economies.

Community Jameel

Community Jameel joins COP28 president-designate in finance climate meetings with King Charles III and President Biden

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MIT Jameel Clinic

Healthcare providers say artificial intelligence could transform medicine

A digital artwork of DNA protein structures.

MIT Jameel Clinic

Jameel Clinic research develops 'FrameDiff', a computational tool that uses generative AI to craft new protein structures

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

MIT Jameel Clinic

KFSH&RC and MIT Jameel Clinic collaborate to advance applied AI in healthcare

Scientific American

MIT Jameel Clinic

AI could quickly screen thousands of antibiotics to tackle superbugs

A giraffe enjoys the shade of an acacia tree in Lewa Conservancy, Kenya.

Six questions with Tavneet Suri

Helping developing nations tackle climate change.

Community Jameel

UK and US to rally efforts to help developing nations tackle climate change

Students in a summer youth programme work on a woodwork project.

The Washington Post

How to revitalise summers for teens and young adults

Jameel House in Cairo

Hisham Atwa, chairman of the Cultural Palaces Authority: Egypt uses cultural activities to thrive

A pink and blue DNA sequence structure.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Jameel Clinic

MIT Jameel Clinic scientists build a system that can generate AI models for biology research

The face of the singer Andrea Bocelli against a background of the Sanctuary of Our Lady in Lourdes, France.

The Catholic Guide

Bocelli-Jameel Scholarship

Andrea Bocelli to sing in Lourdes on 16 July

Guyo Malicha Roba, head of the Jameel Observatory research centre in Nairobi speaks with CNN Connecting Africa about the role of technology in research for drought preparedness and response.

Jameel Observatory

CNN’s Connecting Africa explores Nairobi’s role as a technology and research hub to combat drought

L'UM6P lance l'école d'été dédiée aux méthodologies du développement

Societies have established various mechanisms to encourage innovation, but there is a need for innovations that improve how governments deliver essential services, such as teaching children math.

Throwing good money after good

Dimitris Bertsimas, faculty lead for entrepreneurship at the MIT Jameel Clinic will talk about the benefits of using artificial intelligence and the changes it will bring, both to our day-to-day lives and in the field of science in Athens in July.

MIT Jameel Clinic

Robot doctors and oenologists

A conductor stands to applause with an orchestra.

The Global Herald

Jameel Arts & Health Lab

WHO 75 healing arts concert, Victoria Hall, Geneva follows launch of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab

The Times of India

Plov: A pulao goes to Samarkand

A row of books.

Hindustan Times

Book Box | The secret lives of banks

In 'An Alternative development agenda for India', Sanjay Kaul presents a transformative, sustainable developmental agenda for India, focusing on seven vital sectors and the systemic issues that plague them.

Government has been counting India’s poor all wrong—it is ad hoc, arbitrary

Graphic illustration of pink germs on a purple background

MIT Jameel Clinic

How to fight antibiotic resistance

Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg / Alamy Stock Photo

A time for work

People gather on 6 May 2020, at a food distribution site in Nairobi. (Max Bearak/The Washington Post)

The Washington Post

Opinion | Cash transfers help more than the individual

Close-up photograph of columns of an MIT campus building.

Harness that resolve - Anjali Sastry, faculty director, MIT J-WEL

Learners at an MIT ReACT session map out their learning journeys

J-WEL launches Emerging Talent effort and certificate in computer and data science

Electronic glove developed at the Voxel Lab at MIT

Electronic gloves and even potted plants make music in a playground for sound innovation

A cloud of keywords related to data, water scarcity, food security and climate change in the Horn of Africa.

Jameel Observatory

Jameel Observatory

Data, droughts and food security: Insights from a Kenya datathon

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