MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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When MIT mechanical engineering student Daphne Wang arrived for her internship at the Muscogee Creek Nation Department of Health in Tulsa, Oklahoma last summer, she expected to be writing code. To her surprise, she found herself analyzing tribal history and the implications for technical innovation. “I learned so much that I think should be required curriculum for every single person in this country,” says Wang. “I…
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