Humanities

Simmons Hall will be the site for an unusual creation--the Chenrezig Mandala, an intricate but temporary three-dimensional image made of colored sand. Buddhist monks will begin making the mandala on March 3.

The universe goes round the mandala

March 3, 2004

Professor Edward Farhi (right), who argued on behalf of latkes, jokingly derides hamentashen, represented at the debate in human form by Sophie Rapoport, a sophomore in mathematics. Seated behind them is emcee Donald Sadoway.

Triangular pastry squares off against potato pancake

March 3, 2004

The Chenrezig Mandala, to be constructed by Buddhist monks at MIT commencing March 3.

The world goes round the mandala

March 1, 2004

NPR 'geek funny girl' visits MIT

February 25, 2004

African-American museum comes to life

February 25, 2004

"We used to talk about being in the back of the bus. Today the real question is, do you have bus fare?" Julianne Malveaux
Economist and columnist

Malveaux hits discrimination targets

Economic and political inequities 'dismantling the dream,' MLK speaker says

February 11, 2004

Racial divide is really an imaginary fault line, profs say

February 11, 2004

Julianne Malveaux speaks at the 30th annual Martin Luther King breakfast.

Malveaux takes aims at political, economic sources of discrimination

February 9, 2004

Burchard Scholars selected

February 4, 2004

MLK Awards to be served at breakfast

January 28, 2004

Malveaux to speak at MLK breakfast

November 19, 2003

Computers process the drawings of museum visitors to help guide them through principles of Zen philosophy.

Zen and the art of computers

October 22, 2003

Correction

October 22, 2003

MLK Visiting Professor, Scholar named; 4 continue as MLK profs

October 8, 2003

The Dalai Lama was given a tour of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research by biology professor Eric Lander (right), head of the Genome Center and the Broad Institute. Yama Chompel (left) a Tibetan, instructs the Dalai Lama in pipetting isopropel into mouse DNA in the lab. Next to the Dalai Lama is his translator, Thupton Jinpa.

Dalai Lama enlists science in quest for 'a happy mind'

Buddhism, science share curiosity about the world

September 17, 2003

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