Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship celebrates 50 years
New cohort of fellows to carry on humanitarian tradition at MIT.
Helen Elaine Lee and Emma Teng to head SHASS academic units
Dean Deborah Fitzgerald announces leadership appointments in Women's and Gender Studies and Global Studies and Languages.
How can one tree tell the story of climate change?
With help from a single red oak, five MIT Knight Science Journalism colleagues explore storytelling as a way to convey the impacts of a changing climate.
Students launch MIT INSPIRE competition
MIT hosts the first national high school-age competition for research projects in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
Mark R. Epstein ’63 endows directorship of MIT Museum
Museum's first endowed position will be held by John Durant, its incumbent director.
Esther Duflo receives Princess of Asturias Award
Top Spanish prize awarded to MIT economics professor and J-PAL co-director for contributions to development economics and policies to reduce poverty.
Melissa Nobles named dean of SHASS
Political scientist and department head to lead School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
3 Questions: Kenneth Oye on regulating drugs
New potential for “homemade” opiates raises oversight issues.
Sleuthing the Glaser Codex at MIT
Michael Cuthbert and Theresa Zammit Lupi examine medieval chant manuscripts in MIT's Lewis Music Library.
A “graduation” from poverty
Study: Anti-poverty intervention provides sustained boost to incomes and wealth.
Artbot engineers the discovery of art
New mobile app designed by MIT graduate students provides serendipitous connections to the Boston-area art scene.
