Knight Science Journalism Program announces 2021-22 fellows
Twenty-one distinguished journalists will probe issues ranging from environmental justice and maternal health to threatened grasslands and endangered megafauna.
Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Diving into the global problem of technology waste
Students in STS.032 (Energy, Environment, and Society) learn about environmental and health consequences of discarded electronics.
Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT partners with STAT on a new health journalism fellowship
The Sharon Begley-STAT Science Reporting Fellowship aims to support early-career science journalists of color.
3Q: The socio-environmental complexities of renewable energy
HASTS PhD student Caroline White-Nockleby aims to advance climate justice by minimizing localized burdens of renewable energy implementation.
3 Questions: Nadia Christidi on the arts and the future of water
The PhD student focuses on three cities and the role of the arts in helping planning institutions to imagine and plan for possible futures.
The MIT Press launches MIT Open Publishing Services
New publishing model provides unique and timely solutions to the production, curation, and preservation of knowledge.
What has the pandemic revealed about the US health care system — and what needs to change?
Seven MIT researchers see lessons and opportunities for US health care.
Connecting history with the present moment
Hundreds worldwide join MIT students in experiencing 21H.000 (History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics) as a public series of webinars.
Fostering ethical thinking in computing
New case studies series examines social, ethical, and policy challenges of present-day computing activities.
Scientists as engaged citizens
In a new MIT class, students explore how STEM researchers bring their knowledge to major societal issues.
Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT launches digital handbook for science editors, online fact-checking project
Both free resources are part of an update of the program's website.
Five MIT researchers receive awards from the American Physical Society
William Barletta, Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Katelin Schutz, and Phiala Shanahan honored for contributions to physics.
India’s culture of coping with cancer
Dwaipayan Banerjee’s new book examines the psychological and social terrain of living with cancer in a country where the disease has long been downplayed.
Donald Blackmer, professor emeritus of political science and longtime leader at MIT, dies at 91
Esteemed scholar and extraordinary steward of institutions and people was known to light up the academic landscape.
The social life of data
New Data and Society course engages students in the ethics and societal implications of data.