Scientists as engaged citizens
In a new MIT class, students explore how STEM researchers bring their knowledge to major societal issues.
In a new MIT class, students explore how STEM researchers bring their knowledge to major societal issues.
Both free resources are part of an update of the program's website.
William Barletta, Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Katelin Schutz, and Phiala Shanahan honored for contributions to physics.
Dwaipayan Banerjee’s new book examines the psychological and social terrain of living with cancer in a country where the disease has long been downplayed.
Esteemed scholar and extraordinary steward of institutions and people was known to light up the academic landscape.
New Data and Society course engages students in the ethics and societal implications of data.
In a new book, Professor David Kaiser describes dramatic shifts in the history of an evolving discipline.
Judges praise “Ahead of the Fire” for taking a local issue and showing “why it was relevant to everyone in the country.”
Timothy Loh, a HASTS program doctoral student studying deafness, sign language, and technology, is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist-in-training.
Physicists simulate critical “reheating” period that kickstarted the Big Bang in the universe’s first fractions of a second.
Professor’s startup brings millimeter-scale location tracking to factories, ports, and other industrial environments.
How the humanities, arts, and social science fields can help shape the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing — and benefit from advanced computing.
Engineer and historian discusses how the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing might integrate technical and humanistic research and education.
Award will support research for "A Counter History of Computing in India."
In STS.047 (Quantifying People), MIT students explore the history of science from the 17th century to the present, through the eyes of statisticians and sociologists.