School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

MIT Global Studies and Languages announces new Cantonese class

Pilot program will teach beginning-level Cantonese during the 2016 Independent Activities Period.

November 20, 2015

A group of Burmese woman grow rice on a rice paddy. A new study indicates that agriculture in Mynamar and other countries will experience substantial productivity declines in the next 30 years due to climate change.

Grow your own way

Study: Trade may not help a warming planet fight its farming failures.

November 20, 2015

Report: How interactive documentaries represent a new form of innovation in digital journalism

MIT report represents the first thorough mapping of the ongoing convergence between interactive and participatory practices within digital journalism.

November 19, 2015

MIT Professor Chappell Lawson serves as faculty lead of the International Policy Lab.

Q&A: Chappell Lawson on the MIT International Policy Lab

IPL faculty lead describes the project's origins and invites proposals for lab-funded policy research projects.

November 19, 2015

D. Fox Harrell, associate Professor of digital media, has appointments in MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing, and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory.

Designing virtual identities for empowerment and social change

D. Fox Harrell receives $1.35 million in grant funding to advance research at the intersection of social science and digital technology.

November 18, 2015

"Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age" (Penguin Press) by Sherry Turkle (pictured)

3 Questions: Sherry Turkle on “Reclaiming Conversation”

MIT professor talks about our need for face-to-face dialogue, in families, classrooms, and workplaces.

November 17, 2015

Good thinking

MIT philosopher Kieran Setiya analyzes the sources of moral action.

November 13, 2015

Deborah K. Fitzgerald, professor of the history of technology in the MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society

Deborah Fitzgerald receives lifetime achievement award from the Agricultural History Society

November 10, 2015

MIT Libraries explore 17th-century postal archive in "Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered"

2,600 recently rediscovered early modern letters to be analyzed in groundbreaking international digital humanities project.

November 10, 2015

MIT named No. 1 university worldwide for social sciences

Times Higher Education ranks MIT’s social sciences the best in the world.

November 9, 2015

MIT’s J-PAL North America launches State and Local Innovation Initiative

New program out of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT aims to help state and local governments find solutions to key public policy issues.

November 6, 2015

3Q: Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf PhD '81 on the role of political science in solving global issues

Wolf will be on campus this month for events to honor the 50th anniversary of MIT's Department of Political Science.

November 4, 2015

The Hunt for Vulcan (Penguin Random House) by Thomas Levenson (pictured)

3Q: Thomas Levenson on the hunt for Vulcan, the missing planet

New book details the scientific search for a planet — before Albert Einstein halted the quest.

November 3, 2015

4Axis Solutions co-founders Minsara Madhawa, Dumindu Kanankage, Kapilan Karunananthan and Anuruddha Alwis

Empowering students in Sri Lanka to form mobile-app startups

MIT Global Startup Labs program leads to student-founded startups 4Axis Solutions and PayMedia.

October 30, 2015

Clockwise from top left: Nominator and Professor Leslie Kolodziejski, Professor Kord Smith and nominators; nominator and Professor Susan Silbey; and Professor Frank Solomon and nominator.

Grad students honor caring faculty through Committed to Caring (C2C) Awards

Celebration of “above and beyond” support enters second year.