MIT SHASS announces appointment of new heads for 2024-25
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences appoints new heads across multiple academic units.
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences appoints new heads across multiple academic units.
During a recent history of technology symposium at MIT, participants shared exciting ideas about the future of their field.
In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, MIT physicists propose.
Discounting calculations are ubiquitous today — thanks partly to the English clergy who spread them amid turmoil in the 1600s, an MIT scholar shows.
Kate Brown, MIT professor of history, discusses how ordinary people taking action in their communities can offer hope for the future.
The Fulbright US Student Program funds research, study, and teaching opportunities abroad.
William Deringer studies “very old things and very technical things” — that have never been more relevant.
Extractive industries threaten water, glaciers, and livelihoods, but new research offers hope.
MIT historian of science Robin Wolfe Scheffler takes a close look at the progress of biomedical research in the U.S.
The Knight Science Journalism Program’s Victor K. McElheny Award honors outstanding local and regional journalists’ reporting on science, public health, tech, and the environment.
Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba and artist Argha Manna take readers through a series of discoveries in infectious disease.
Cosmologist and MLK Scholar Morgane König uses gravitational waves to study the universe’s origins, inflation, and present trajectory.
An MIT professor and students collaborate with Chilean partners for an exhibition marking 50 years since the Allende presidency.
Through community-based research with organizations that work to “hoʻomomona hou i ka ʻāina,” or “restore that which feeds back to abundance,” PhD student Aja Grande has embarked on a healing journey of her own.
The pathbreaking thinker helped reshape discussions of science, gender, and objectivity, as well as biological determinism, in her lauded career.