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School of Humanities Arts and Social Science
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Moving beyond “defensive medicine”
Study shows removing liability concerns slightly increases C-section procedures during childbirth.
March 11, 2020 -
Hospital rankings hold up
Some basic metrics do effectively diagnose care quality, according to MIT economists.
January 30, 2020 -
2019 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named
Professors Angrist, Demaine, Jones, and Taylor receive MIT's highest honor in undergraduate teaching.
March 4, 2019 -
Study offers new view of how cartels work
Less data-sharing among firms can actually lead to more collusion, economists find.
December 19, 2018 -
Hot stuff: East Campus Fire Safety Day
At a hands-on event, East Campus dorm students learned about fire safety from members of the Cambridge Fire Department and staff from several MIT departments.
December 18, 2018 -
Populism: a case-by-case study
MIT Starr Forum panel discusses extreme forms of populism that have endangered basic civil liberties and spawned intolerant rhetoric.
November 29, 2018 -
MIT Open Learning launches Center for Advanced Virtuality
The new center will explore how MIT can use virtual reality and artificial intelligence and other technologies to better serve human needs.
November 27, 2018 -
3 Questions: Stephen Van Evera revisits World War I
A century after its bitter end, the political science professor calls the Great War a wellspring of the 20th century's horrors and tragedies.
November 8, 2018 -
Novelist Min Jin Lee makes the case for understanding through fiction
At MIT event, “Pachinko” author talks about literature as a way of understanding outsiders in modern culture.
November 1, 2018