Departments
Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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Defiance: Disobedience for the good of all
MIT Media Lab summer event explores responsible dissent, embodied in its new Disobedience Award.
July 25, 2017 -
Play Labs announces first class of VR/AR/playful startups and demo session
First accelerator program on the MIT campus will showcase 12 startups across a mix of gaming, virtual reality, esports, and augmented reality technologies.
June 27, 2017 -
Featured video: Bringing “Einstein’s Dreams” to life
An MIT student in engineering and theater arts melds her dual passions to bring physics to the stage.
June 20, 2017 -
Danielle Olson: Building empathy through computer science and art
CSAIL PhD student creates immersive media to help users understand each other’s backgrounds and feelings.
May 30, 2017 -
Vivek Bald awarded Levitan Prize in the Humanities, named Whiting Public Engagement Fellow
Both awards support Bald's research-based media projects on South Asian American communities.
March 10, 2017 -
MIT senior Lilly Chin wins “Jeopardy!” College Championship
Chin takes the $100,000 grand prize, surpassing 14 on-air contestants and thousands of applicants from colleges around the U.S.
February 24, 2017 -
Play Labs, a playful tech accelerator for MIT students and alumni, launches
MIT Game Lab, Bayview Labs, and Seraph Group announce funding, facilities, and mentorship for startups focusing on virtual, augmented, and mixed reality.
January 20, 2017 -
Joy Buolamwini wins national contest for her work fighting bias in machine learning
Media Lab graduate student selected from over 7,300 entrants, awarded $50,000 scholarship in contest inspired by the film "Hidden Figures."
January 17, 2017 -
MIT in London
The city offers an ideal home for MIT alumni whose work spans disciplines and continents.
January 12, 2017 -
Edward Schiappa receives the Charles H. Woolbert Research Award
Test-of-time award recognizes work that has stimulated new conceptualizations of communication phenomena.
December 19, 2016 -
Terrascope Radio documentary wins national award
MIT students’ personal account of desert farming in New Mexico earns top honors from college broadcasting association.
December 13, 2016 -
Thorsten Trimpop wins Golden Dove grand prize at Leipzig Festival
CMS/W lecturer and Open Doc Lab fellow wins prestigious documentary filmmaking prize for "Furusato," chronicling effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
December 9, 2016 -
Face to face with "The Enemy"
Visiting Artist Karim Ben Khelifa creates immersive experiences using virtual and augmented reality to humanize soldiers in global conflicts.
December 2, 2016 -
Nine SHASS faculty members awarded named professorships
Honored positions afford faculty additional support for research.
November 10, 2016 -
Working with purpose
Work-study program creates priceless relationships between MIT students and the local community.
October 24, 2016 -
Harnessing the power of citizens
PhD student Lily Bui works with communities around the world to gather data from the bottom up.
October 12, 2016 -
Analyzing the 2016 election: Insights from 12 MIT scholars
Experts from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences weigh in on topics from polling to rhetoric to individual campaign issues.
October 12, 2016 -
Changing the face of conservatism in the U.S.
New book by professor Heather Hendershot explores impact of William F. Buckley’s “Firing Line.”
October 4, 2016 -
A novel approach to teaching socially responsible real estate: games
MIT’s Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab uses gaming to advance its mission in China.
September 2, 2016 -
Integrating user-collected data in city planning
Lily Bui draws upon science, art, and public advocacy to enrich urban design.
August 26, 2016