Program in Science, Technology, and Society

Tony Bartelme and his colleagues at the <i>Charleston Post and Courier</i> will receive the 2019 Victor K. McElheny Award for their reporting on the Gulf Stream.

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.

March 18, 2019

A worker at an outdoor quicklime kiln in the southeastern village of Kosturino, Macedonia. The operation burns tires for fuel.

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.

February 25, 2019

Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga and his book, "The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production" (MIT Press)

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.

August 2, 2018

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.

May 16, 2018

Professor Emeritus Leon Trilling dies at 93

Aeronautical engineer and historian of technology was an esteemed humanistic thinker and advocate for equality.

May 15, 2018

Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT announces 2018-19 class of fellows

Ten top journalists from four countries will spend nine months at MIT, designing their own course of study.

May 2, 2018

The 2018 MacVicar Faculty fellows are (clockwise from top left): Shankar Raman, David Autor, Merritt Roe Smith, and Christopher Capozzola.

Four professors named 2018 MacVicar Fellows

Autor, Capozzola, Raman, and Smith receive MIT's most prestigious undergraduate teaching award.

March 5, 2018

William Deringer of STS has his first book coming out in February about how quantitative economic arguments gained hold in the modern world.

When numbers started counting

New book by MIT assistant professor chronicles the birth of statistical arguments in public debate.

February 5, 2018

“Robin’s research will not only deepen our understanding of the development of the biotech industry in Greater Boston,” said Melissa Nobles, the Kenan Sahin Dean of MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. “It will also reveal insights into the ways that human values, community action, and public policy converge to shape technological innovation more generally.”

Historian Robin Scheffler awarded 2018 Levitan Prize

Prestigious award in the humanities includes a $30,000 grant that will support his research into the factors that influenced the development of Boston’s booming biotech industry.

February 1, 2018

Left to right: Rania Ghosn, Rosalind Williams, and Caroline Jones joined guest lecturer Imre Szeman for a panel discussion after his talk on ways to shift from “petroculture.”

Energy transition through aesthetics and culture

MIT Energy Initiative seminar examines the role of the humanities, design, and aesthetics in catalyzing a fairer, more diverse energy future.

October 24, 2017

Top row: Sana Aiyar, Catherine Clark, Sasha Costanza-Chock. Middle row, Amy Finkelstein, Deborah Fitzgerald, Daniel Hidalgo. Bottom row: Justin Khoo, Bradford Skow, Craig Wilder

Nine SHASS faculty members awarded named professorships

Honored positions afford faculty additional support for research.

November 10, 2016

First Row: (left to right) Alberto Abadie, Isaiah Andrews, Dwaipayan Banerjee, Claire Conceison. Second Row: (left to right) Drew Fudenberg, Paul Roquet, Tamar Schapiro, Ariel White.

New faculty in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

SHASS welcomes eight new faculty members for 2016.

November 2, 2016

Eight from MIT awarded 2016 Fulbright grants

Grantees will spend the 2016-2017 academic year conducting research abroad.

June 16, 2016

“Algorithms, Identity, and Society” was held before a capacity audience at MIT’s Bartos Theater, and sponsored by MIT’s noted program in Science, Technology, and Society.

Identity theft?

Automation helps us in many ways, but does it steal our sense of self?

April 8, 2016

“The question I was beginning to ask was: How is it that Africa is not accounted for in technology studies?” says Clapperton Mavhunga. “How is it we are only accounted for in our social history and our suffering as victims? That’s when this inquiry that took me to MIT began.”

Stealth technology

Clapperton Mavhunga’s work uncovers an Africa where technology is abundant and sophisticated.

March 2, 2016

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