MIT community weighs in to address the coronavirus pandemic

TechRepublic April 3, 2020
N.F. Mendoza

MIT introduces “COVID-19 Rapid Innovation Dashboard,” an all-hands-on-deck team effort between the five schools, to research, report, and find solutions to the coronavirus.

A community of students, faculty, staff and alumni from academia and science labs across the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, have pooled resources to create the COVID-19 Rapid Innovation Dashboard, as MIT’s entry point to urgent problem-solving to address the pandemic. The latest version launched April 2 and grew out of the MIT Innovation Initiative.

“In early stages, MIT Innovation Initiative reached out to MIT’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship community to ask about the various organizations’ COVID-19 activities,” said David Sweeney, director of communications at MIT.

“They submitted projects from their students,...

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