Returning farming to city centers
4.182 (Resilient Urbanism: Green Commons in the City), a new subject funded by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC), teaches students about sustainable agriculture in urban areas.
Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Where climate meets community
MIT’s Living Climate Futures Lab takes a human-centered approach to investigating a global challenge.
MIT students stretch minds and bodies
Exercise is Medicine class integrates physical activity and academics.
A better understanding of debilitating head pain
Tom Zeller’s new book, “The Headache,” sheds light on one of the world’s most confounding and agonizing ailments.
SHASS announces appointments of new program and section heads for 2025-26
Sandy Alexandre, Manduhai Buyandelger, and Eden Medina take on new leadership positions.
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes 14 new faculty for 2025
New professors join Comparative Media Studies/Writing, History, Linguistics and Philosophy, Music and Theater Arts, and Political Science.
Victor McElheny, founding director of MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program, dies at 89
The pioneering journalist and author was a steadfast champion of science journalism and its global community of practitioners.
Usha Lee McFarling named director of the Knight Science Journalism Program
McFarling, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and national science correspondent for STAT, was a 1992-93 Knight Science Journalism Fellow.
Beneath the biotech boom
MIT historian Robin Scheffler’s research shows how local regulations helped create certainty and safety principles that enabled an industry’s massive growth.
Exploring the impacts of technology on everyday citizens
Associate Professor Dwai Banerjee examines topics ranging from cancer care to the history of computing.
MIT Human Insight Collaborative launches SHASS Faculty Fellows program
The new initiative will allow selected faculty to focus on their research, build community, and pursue mentorship opportunities.
Timeless virtues, new technologies
Engineer and historian David Mindell’s new book provides a roadmap for thinking about the future of industry.
Loren Graham, professor emeritus of the history of science, dies at 91
Longtime MIT faculty member, award-winning author, and HASTS program co-founder was an expert in the influence of social context on science, and the organization of science in Russia and the Soviet Union.
In a unique research collaboration, students make the case for less e-waste
SERC Scholars from around the MIT community examine the electronic hardware waste life cycle and climate justice.