3 Questions: Melissa Nobles on advancing racial and restorative justice
Head of political science at MIT says understanding the past is a source for social innovation in our own time.
Michael Collins: “I could have been the last person to walk on the moon”
Apollo 11 astronaut speaks at MIT about his experiences leading up to the first moon landing.
Fitzgerald to step down as dean of SHASS
After nine years, dean will return to her position as a professor of the history of technology.
Keeping score
Newly tenured professor Michael Cuthbert dives into old music to recreate the art of centuries past.
The art and science of letterlocking
MIT Libraries’ conservator shares historic letterlocking techniques
MIT Museum exhibit features 100 early photographic portraits
"Daguerre’s American Legacy: Photographic Portraits (1840-1900)," from the Wm. B. Becker Collection, is on view in Kurtz Gallery for Photography from April 18 to Jan. 4, 2015.
In major extension of MIT nuclear policy studies, Gavin begins work as first Frank Stanton Chair
Historian will facilitate collaboration among political scientists, historians, and policymakers
SA+P receives $1 million grant from Mellon Foundation
The grant will help create a Global Architecture History Teaching Collaborative.
3 Questions: Arindam Dutta on MIT and architectural modernism
New book, edited by MIT architectural historian, examines the evolution of modernism during its postwar heyday at the Institute.