MRIs for a more peaceful world
Neuroscientists and political scientists join together to advance peace and reconciliation.
MISTI welcomes new faculty directors
Patrick Jaillet is named faculty director of MIT-France; Paulo Lozano is named faculty director of MIT-Mexico.
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.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits MIT
Discussion of innovation keynotes stop; Japan gives gift to Institute.
Political scientist Fotini Christia receives Andrew Carnegie Fellowship
Program fosters humanistic/social science research to solve complex issues.
Eight faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Among 197 elected this year to the prestigious honorary society.
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.
Studying conflict from the ground up
Newly tenured Fotini Christia studies political conflict — making findings that policymakers can use.
Watching how the money flows
David Andrew Singer maps the influence of global capital flows among governments, banks, and individuals around the world.