'I came to MIT Sloan intent on joining a vibrant ecosystem for entrepreneurship and leadership development,' says Alecia Asiamigbe, an MIT Sloan Fellow and MBA student in the MIT Sloan School of Management who is graduating this week. It was MIT Sloan's work to embed sustainability in new ventures that attracted Asiamigbe. Additionally, the MIT Sloan Fellows program gave her the opportunity to earn an MBA in one year. 'I was anchored to my choice by the Disciplined Entrepreneurship framework and the potential to focus on climate and energy entrepreneurship.' Currently, Asiamigbe is working to build out a sustainability-focused venture, Resilient Grid, a renewable energy company that aims to convert organic waste into sustainable natural gas able to produce reliable, dispatchable renewable power in fuel import-dependent markets. Its modular systems reduce reliance on imported fuels, lower energy costs, and stabilize grids where solar and wind alone are insufficient. By capturing methane, diverting waste from landfills, and producing useful byproducts, it delivers measurable impact across energy security, emissions reduction, and circular economic development....

Over 200 students, alumni, faculty, staff, funders, and community collaborators gathered at the MIT Media Lab on April 15 for the 25th annual IDEAS Social Innovation Incubator Showcase and Awards, hosted by the Priscilla King Gray (PKG) Center for Social Impact. Since its founding in 2001, the PKG Center's IDEAS Incubator has launched hundreds of social ventures in over 60 countries, guiding MIT's technical talent toward urgent social challenges ' from energy and climate to health care, education, and economic development. 'Global and local challenges are increasingly complex and interconnected,' said Lauren Tyger, assistant dean for social innovation at the PKG Center and director of IDEAS. 'IDEAS educates technical founders in systems thinking and community-based innovation, helping students develop business models that achieve both measurable social outcomes and financial sustainability.' Thies traced his tuberculosis medication adherence work in India from a low-cost electronic pillbox through multiple iterations that helped shift India's treatment policies toward patient autonomy. Ultimately, his work led to Nikshay, a national electronic medical records platform now supporting 150 million people, which recently transitioned to full government control....

A supportive ecosystem is a cornerstone in entrepreneurship, according to Georgina Campbell Flatter, the CEO of Greentown Labs. 'If we really want to be driving the most transformational technologies to scale at a speed in which we need them to happen for our planet, we need to be thinking about the ecosystem that we build around it.' During a seminar titled MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition, Campbell Flatter spoke of 'the power of 'and'' ' the importance of multiple people, companies, and solutions collaborating to advance energy and climate solutions ' and how that underpins Greentown Labs' mission. 'Innovation is a team sport. No one can go alone,' she said. Creating these ecosystems is paramount at Greentown Labs, the world's largest energy and climate incubator. 'Through the lens of Greentown, we think about the power of 'and' through how we can work together better in the ecosystems where we have physical presence, but also how we can connect better across ecosystems,' said Campbell Flatter. The concept of "and" also exists in energy and climate, innovation and deployment, science and entrepreneurship, and competitiveness and collaboration, she said. Campbell Flatter feels this expansive lens is especially important in our increasingly polarized world....

U.S. News and World Report has again placed MIT's graduate program in engineering at the top of its annual rankings, released today. The Institute has held the No. 1 spot since 1990, when the magazine first ranked such programs. Among individual engineering disciplines, MIT placed first in six areas: aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering, chemical engineering, computer engineering (tied with the University of California at Berkeley), electrical/electronic/communications engineering (tied with Stanford University and Berkeley), materials engineering, and mechanical engineering. It placed second in nuclear engineering. In the rankings of individual MBA specialties, MIT placed first in four areas: business analytics, entrepreneurship (with Stanford), production/operations, and supply chain/logistics. It placed second in executive MBA programs (with the University of Chicago). U.S. News bases its rankings of graduate schools of engineering and business on two types of data: reputational surveys of deans and other academic officials, and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research, and students. The magazine's less-frequent rankings of graduate programs in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities are based solely on reputational surveys....