By Charlotte Fall India, home to almost 1.4 billion people, holds one-third of the world’s poor. Living on less than $1.90 a day, or the international poverty line established by the World Bank, causes citizens to live in severe conditions, lacking access to basic survival necessities such as water, food, Read more…
By Ally Barth Twenty hours of travel later, we stepped off the plane to a harmonious chorus of “Happy Birthday!” Of course, it was nobody’s birthday, but our South African companions were passionate about properly welcoming us to their country, American-style. After one intensive week hard at work, we finally Read more…
By Kayla Vestergaard – Logistics Manager at Addditive Addditive (3D’s for 3D Printing) is an NU student-led program to teach 3D printing to high schoolers. It began last spring, when the Social Enterprise Institute (SEI) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) dreamt of teaching students how to 3D print Read more…
By Seema Korumilli All people may be created equal, but only the fortunate grow up equal. When my twin brother, Suraj, and I were first starting out with our nonprofit work, this was a lesson we learned early on. Only the lucky get to grow up equal — meaning, not everyone Read more…
April 2018 For those students who have asked me for a reading list in the areas that I teach in, I offer this list of fifty books that I’ve read and recommend highly. I close with a list of ten books that I don’t recommend despite their popularity. These book Read more…
By Shivank Taksali Three months ago, I embarked on a journey that would bring me to a small island nation nestled beneath the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. A country that has witnessed breathtaking transformation over the past few decades and built itself into one of the most competitive Read more…