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“I was always very interested in current events and fascinated by what was happening in the world around me,” MIT historian Tanalís Padilla says. “My parents were very political. I considered myself quite a political being. … I think [living in] Mexico and the United States and seeing the contrast to be so great, especially in rural Mexico, made me aware [of politics] early on.”

Past and present

MIT’s Tanalís Padilla brings alive the history of political struggles in Mexico.

January 4, 2016

(Left to right) Ade Samuel, Ellen Rice Staten, Rasheed Auguste, Tiera Guinn, Alberto Hernandez, and Isaiah Borne.

Black student leaders present recommendations for a more inclusive MIT

Students are working closely with senior administration; President Reif praises collaboration.

December 9, 2015

Henry Thomas Tizard (center), British physicist and head of the Tizard Mission, visits with MIT researchers. The 1940 Tizard Mission introduced to the U.S. the newly invented resonant-cavity magnetron and other British radar developments, and helped establish MIT as a major federally funded research university.

How the Tizard Mission paved the way for research at MIT

Seventy-five years ago, an international meeting of scientific minds changed forever how MIT and other research institutions develop new technologies.

November 23, 2015

Illuminating urban planning

Jennifer Light studies how Cold War military analysis and New Deal resource analysis shaped cities.

November 23, 2015

Deborah K. Fitzgerald, professor of the history of technology in the MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society

Deborah Fitzgerald receives lifetime achievement award from the Agricultural History Society

November 10, 2015

MIT Libraries explore 17th-century postal archive in "Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered"

2,600 recently rediscovered early modern letters to be analyzed in groundbreaking international digital humanities project.

November 10, 2015

Rinku Sen, president and executive director of Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation, speaks at “Whose Lives Matter?: A Community Conversation with Rinku Sen about the Black Lives Matter Movement and Beyond."

Talking about race

In MIT visit, Rinku Sen discusses Black Lives Matter, and how to have a productive conversation about race in America.

October 20, 2015

MIT’s response to earthquake in Nepal

MIT supports recovery and learning following earthquake in Nepal.

October 8, 2015

Shigeru Miyagawa, professor of linguistics and the Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture at MIT

Innovative humanities MOOC, “Visualizing Japan,” nominated for the Japan Prize

In a Q&A, course co-founder Professor Shigeru Miyagawa discusses his unique online course and its impact on digital education.

September 25, 2015

"Washington as Statesman at the Constitutional Convention"

MIT observes Constitution Day 2015

Today the Institute honors the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.

September 17, 2015

Hundreds of MIT students explore fields at the 2015 TOUR de SHASS

Academic expo connects students with MIT-SHASS faculty and courses.

September 16, 2015

(From left) Stanislaw Olbert, Norma Olbert, and Hale Bradt

World War II in Poland and the Pacific Theater

September 15, 2015

New MIT-SHASS Faculty for 2015: David Atkin, William Deringer, Paloma Duong; Caley Horan, Amy Moran-Thomas, Tanalís Padilla, Robin Scheffler; Frank Schilbach, Bettina Stoetzer, Leslie Tilley

Announcing MIT-SHASS new faculty for fall 2015

The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes a new group of standout scholars.

September 14, 2015

3 Questions: Jennifer Light on new media and democracy

MIT historian of technology discusses new work examining “digital citizenship.”

July 13, 2015

Jeffrey S. Ravel named head of MIT History

June 16, 2015

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