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That was the genesis of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), a nonprofit group that focuses on low-tech, high-impact projects in the developing world, implemented almost entirely by student engineers. If you think this sounds a bit warm and fuzzy for the right-angle world of engineering, think again. Since Amadei launched the national organization in 2002, more than 230 affiliated chapters have sprung up in universities and professional firms around the U.S., comprising some 8,000 members, with more overseas. EWB has built everything from aqueducts in Mali to solar panels in Rwanda. And the group is changing...
...Low-Income Children Left Behind...
Geography may really be destiny. According to a new study released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Child Trends that examined factors like health and education, low-income children are better off in poor, rural areas (the Midwest, for example) than in wealthier and more urban locales (the Northeast). "It is surprising," says report co-author William O'Hare about the plight of poor kids in rich states. "There is a crucial sense of community lacking in the metropolitan areas...
...Today, Harvard takes in more low and middle income students than ever before, according to Sally C. Donahue, the College’s director of financial aid. As Harvard becomes more economically diverse, more students find themselves in Barnhill’s situation...
...HFAI, Donahue says, tries to attract more low-income students to Harvard as “a conscious effort to close the widening gap in opportunity in this country—and actually —between those students who grow up with resources and those who don?...