Apekshya Prasai: Up in arms
New research shows how female activists resist patriarchy on the battlefield and beyond.
Incoming MIT students surprise President Kornbluth with “Barbis” installation
For Interphase EDGE/x participants, a life-sized Barbie-themed TARDIS prompts reflections on social norms.
Q&A: Steven Gonzalez on Indigenous futurist science fiction
The HASTS PhD candidate describes his new book, “Sordidez,” a science fiction novella on rebuilding, healing, and indigeneity following civil war and climate disaster.
MIT Cheney Room reopens with fresh and enhanced programming
Historically women-oriented space welcomes more community members, focusing on women and gender.
SeXX and Immunity event raises crucial questions for society
Why has it taken the scientific community so long to include sex as a biological variable in research and analysis as a matter of course?
3 Questions: Women’s rights and rising threats to press freedom worldwide
Polish journalist Ada Petriczko, an Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow at MIT, discusses ethical and cross-border journalism, freedom of speech, and the rise of autocracy.
Thriving Stars: An initiative to improve gender representation in electrical engineering and computer science
MIT EECS unveils a new effort to encourage and support women on their journey to — and through — graduate study in computing and information technologies.
Envisioning an equitable, inclusive low-carbon future
U.S. C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium convenes virtually, declaring environmental justice key for combating climate change.
Whitehead Institute receives $10 million to study sex chromosomes’ impact on women’s health
Gift establishes the Brit Jepson d’Arbeloff Center on Women's Health.
3 Questions: Professor Kenda Mutongi on Africa, women, power — and human decency
Mutongi discusses the connection between Kenyan widows and the #MeToo movement, myths of African entrepreneurship, and the wider implications of her research.
Communities in the cloud
PhD student Steven Gonzalez studies cloud computing with the eye of an anthropologist.
Analyzing the 2016 election: Insights from 12 MIT scholars
Experts from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences weigh in on topics from polling to rhetoric to individual campaign issues.
Bruno Perreau named to the French Academic Palms
Humanities scholar honored with France's highest distinction for academics.
