In this episode, Syra Mehdi sits down with Danielle Li, a graduating medical student from UMass Chan Medical School beginning her psychiatry residency at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. Born in Mountain View, California and raised partly in Shanghai,…
June 3, 2026 STEM, Global Classroom, Sustainability Listen Empowering Tomorrow’s Scientists: NYC Deputy Chancellor Hawkins Experiences Student-Led STEM & Global Agriculture at PS 5 On June 3, 2026, the halls of PS 5 (Dr. Ronald McNair School) buzzed with a…
Episode 11 Episode 11 Dr. Elliot Pittel, MD, MPH: The Intersection of Music and Medicine Dr. Elliot Pittel, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School and a child and adolescent psychiatrist…
December 2025 Our Jamaica agriculture technology partners surviving and then quickly recovering from a Category – 5 Plus hurricane was an amazing story of disaster preparedness and resilience (read about it on the OPEN homepage). Students continuing with our lessons…
December 2025 As one of the founding members and Pledgors to the ITU’s Partners2Connect Initiative, OPEN was recently honored with a note of thanks and appreciation for our contributions / pledges to bring digital connectivity and AI technologies (Internet sensor…
THOUGHTFUL PREPARATION FOR RAPID RECOVERY AFTER CATEGORY 5 JAMAICA HURRICANE Lessons from Smallholder Farmer Mr. Ruel Corniffe & Family — OPEN’s Hanover, Jamaica Ag Tech Model Farm Site The Calm Before the Storm On October 28, 2025, last minute preparations…
OPEN Launches Global Agriculture Education Collaborative (GAEC) OPEN LAUNCHES ITS GLOBAL AGRICULTURE EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE (GAEC) Grandfathers in Schools and Practitioners of Sustainable Natural Farming Lead the Way In 2025, OPEN gathered a group of leading agriculture education programs from our…
OPEN’s Air Quality Monitoring Education Tech Initiative A new student-led sustainable community development education program. Supported by an international team of experts and technologists, OPEN is launching a new student-led sustainable community development education program – OPEN’s Air Quality Monitoring…
Le Rêve de Gaïa (the Dream of Gaia), an OPEN strategic partner since early 2021, hasbeen a testbed for OPEN’s sustainable farming and forestry sensor network and now AIanalytics solutions. Their homestead in Southern France is an all-in-one site for…
Project Briefing: A Partnership for Brooklyn’s Tech Leadership | OPEN From a Brief Visit to a Bold Partnership Inspired by his recent visit to P.S. 5, this briefing outlines an opportunity to partner with Congressman Hakeem Jeffries to champion Brooklyn’s…