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Making higher education more accessible to students in Pakistan

Zach Winn | MIT News March 27, 2025 March 27, 2025

EduFi, founded by an MIT alumna, provides low-interest student loans to families in Pakistan so more can attend college.

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Making life friendlier with personal robots

Dorothy Hanna | Department of Mechanical Engineering September 10, 2023 September 10, 2023

Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.