Donald Blackmer, professor emeritus of political science and longtime leader at MIT, dies at 91
Esteemed scholar and extraordinary steward of institutions and people was known to light up the academic landscape.
Program in Science, Technology, and Society
The social life of data
New Data and Society course engages students in the ethics and societal implications of data.
How growth of the scientific enterprise influenced a century of quantum physics
In a new book, Professor David Kaiser describes dramatic shifts in the history of an evolving discipline.
Arizona wildfire series wins Knight Science Journalism’s Victor K. McElheny Award
Judges praise “Ahead of the Fire” for taking a local issue and showing “why it was relevant to everyone in the country.”
Uncovering the role of technology and medicine in deaf and signing worlds
Timothy Loh, a HASTS program doctoral student studying deafness, sign language, and technology, is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist-in-training.
Putting the “bang” in the Big Bang
Physicists simulate critical “reheating” period that kickstarted the Big Bang in the universe’s first fractions of a second.
An interdisciplinary approach to accelerating human-machine collaboration
Professor’s startup brings millimeter-scale location tracking to factories, ports, and other industrial environments.
Computing and artificial intelligence: Humanistic perspectives from MIT
How the humanities, arts, and social science fields can help shape the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing — and benefit from advanced computing.
3Q: David Mindell on his vision for human-centered robotics
Engineer and historian discusses how the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing might integrate technical and humanistic research and education.
Dwaipayan Banerjee receives 2019 Levitan Prize in the Humanities
Award will support research for "A Counter History of Computing in India."
The quest to understand human society scientifically
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.
Gulf Stream series wins Knight Science Journalism Program’s Inaugural Victor K. McElheny Award
Award honoring local and regional science journalism will go to a reporting team from the Charleston Post and Courier.
Undark magazine wins George Polk Award for environmental reporting
Coveted prize, considered among the most prestigious in journalism, was awarded for a global series on air pollution.
How Africans developed scientific knowledge of the deadly tsetse fly
New book by MIT Associate Professor Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga explores science in action in Africa.
Ashley Smart named associate director of the Knight Science Journalism Program
Smart, a senior editor at Physics Today, was a 2015-16 Knight Science Journalism Fellow.