An anthropologist’s lasting legacy at MIT
Longtime professor and MacVicar Faculty Fellow Jean Jackson retires after 42 years at MIT.
Longtime professor and MacVicar Faculty Fellow Jean Jackson retires after 42 years at MIT.
After nine years, dean will return to her position as a professor of the history of technology.
Inaugural event, “Examining Ebola,” probes the current global public health emergency from multiple disciplinary perspectives.
Digest of the MIT humanities, arts, and social sciences features a Nobel Prize, a new professorship in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, three new SHASS websites, and more.
Study: Retracted papers needlessly stigmatize and jeopardize solid research in related fields.
Study of 24 top institutions finds ‘elite’ male faculty in the life sciences employ fewer women.
Journal volume advances research stalled by political agendas
MIT political scientist studies the long-term effects of war on people’s social and political behavior.
Women, less-attractive men lag in the effort to find financial backing for startups.
MIT senior Jonathan Tebes sees economics as a way to alleviate poverty in the US, Tanzania, and beyond.
In a new book, MIT political scientist Ben Ross Schneider sets out an agenda for growth with greater equality in Latin America.