Edward Schiappa receives the Charles H. Woolbert Research Award
Test-of-time award recognizes work that has stimulated new conceptualizations of communication phenomena.
Department
Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Terrascope Radio documentary wins national award
MIT students’ personal account of desert farming in New Mexico earns top honors from college broadcasting association.
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.
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.
Nine SHASS faculty members awarded named professorships
Honored positions afford faculty additional support for research.
Working with purpose
Work-study program creates priceless relationships between MIT students and the local community.
Harnessing the power of citizens
PhD student Lily Bui works with communities around the world to gather data from the bottom up.
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.
Changing the face of conservatism in the U.S.
New book by professor Heather Hendershot explores impact of William F. Buckley’s “Firing Line.”
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.
Integrating user-collected data in city planning
Lily Bui draws upon science, art, and public advocacy to enrich urban design.
New heads of house join undergraduate and graduate communities to start the fall semester
Areas of expertise include robotics, writing, physics, jewelry-making, and breakfast cereal.
First annual MIT Teaching with Digital Technology Awards presented
Awards honor faculty and instructors who have effectively leveraged digital technology to improve teaching and learning at MIT.
Thomas Levenson receives the 2016 Levitan Prize in the Humanities
Award will support research on the South Sea Bubble crisis as an example of connections between scientific developments and their larger social consequences.
