MIT affiliates awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships
Afreen Siddiqi, Kathleen Thelen, and Vinod Vaikuntanathan, along with alumna Kate Manne, are appointed to the 2026 class of “trail-blazing fellows.”
Department
Linguistics and Philosophy
Improving understanding with language
MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt investigates how the ways we communicate can shape our views of the world.
Why bother with plausible deniability?
Philosopher Sam Berstler explains why we have social norms that let people engage in open deception.
A philosophy of work
As the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow, Michal Masny is advancing dialogue, teaching, and research into the social and ethical dimensions of new computing technologies.
Why does wealth inequality matter?
An MIT Stone Center event examined the origins, mechanisms, and political consequences of high inequality.
QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2026
The Institute also ranks second in seven subject areas.
Preserving Keres
Linguistics graduate student William Pacheco hopes to preserve his endangered native language, while also becoming a better learner and educator.
Times Higher Education ranks MIT No. 1 in arts and humanities, business and economics, and social sciences for 2026
Top worldwide honors span disciplines across three MIT schools for the second year in a row.
Brian Hedden named co-associate dean of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing
He joins Nikos Trichakis in guiding the cross-cutting initiative of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
The philosophical puzzle of rational artificial intelligence
As AI technology advances, a new interdisciplinary course seeks to equip students with foundational critical thinking skills in computing.
This new tool could tell us how consciousness works
Researchers propose a roadmap for using transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive way to stimulate the brain and see how it functions.
A new lens on humanity
The inaugural MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) Annual Event showcased the breadth of projects supported in the first year of the presidential initiative.
Revisiting a revolution through poetry
In “American Independence in verse,” MIT philosopher Brad Skow uses poems to explore the American Revolution from multiple perspectives.
The science of consciousness
Through the MIT Consciousness Club, professors Matthias Michel and Earl Miller are exploring how neurological activity gives rise to human experience.
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing welcomes 11 new faculty for 2025
The faculty members occupy core computing and shared positions, bringing varied backgrounds and expertise to the MIT community.