Education Portal interviews Michel DeGraff on expanding access to education in Haiti. Dr. Michel DeGraff is a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In two of his current projects at MIT, he is working with MIT colleagues to improve access to education in Haiti. The Education [...]
How a simple phone call could provide Haitians with work: Media Lab students deploy trial of free phone service in Port-Au-Prince to match Haiti's unemployed with reconstruction jobs. By Morgan Bettex, MIT News Office "One year after an earthquake killed more than 200,000 people in Haiti, two MIT Media Lab [...]
Slideshow video from 2010 Symposium
During the Open House on Friday, October 22, 2010, MIT Professor Michel DeGraff and Senior Associate Dean Vijay Kumar provided an overview of the symposium. MIT-Haiti Symposium IntroductionView more presentations from MIT OEIT. MIT-Haiti Symposium SummaryView more presentations from MIT OEIT.
After nearly two days of intense meetings, the MIT-Haiti Symposium concluded on Friday with a call to action. Symposium organizer, Michel DeGraff, provides a brief summary: Our Haitian colleagues, like us at MIT, do realize that the task ahead is daunting and will require extraordinary creativity and fortitude. Yet many [...]
BLOSSOMS module “Can Earthquakes be Predicted” by Zach Adam of Teachers Without Borders, translated by Yvon Lamour (Cambridge Public School District) and Michel DeGraff (MIT), and with Kreyòl voiceover by Yvon Lamour. MIT Tech TV