Q&A with Rosalind Williams on history in the age of human empire
Rosalind Williams, the Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology, recently completed a book examining the critical juncture when human endeavors began to dominate the planet as never...
View ArticleByki Online builds proficiency in 70 languages
Ciao! Hujambo! Aadaab arrz! If you’re intrigued by other languages, you’ll want to explore Byki Online for Education (Byki is an acronym for “Before You Know It.”). This online resource from...
View ArticleMIT Professor Shigeru Miyagawa named award recipient by the OCW Consortium
MIT linguistics professor Shigeru Miyagawa has been selected to receive the President's Award for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE) for his contributions to the global OpenCourseWare and Open Education...
View ArticleMIT SHASS welcomes PEN New England to new home on campus
Dean Deborah Fitzgerald and members of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomed the PEN New England organization to the group’s new home at MIT during a reception held at the MIT...
View ArticleWhat lies ahead for science and science writing?
The MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing turns 10 this year, and this Saturday saw many of the program’s 61 alumni back on campus to catch up and reminisce with fellow graduates, professors and...
View ArticleMIT's Communication Forum conducts a conversation for scholars — and citizens
For more than 30 years, the MIT Communications Forum has played a unique role at the Institute and beyond as a locus for sustained exploration of the cultural, political, economic and technological...
View Article3 Questions with a Student Leader: Tech Editor-in-Chief Jessica J. Pourian
Student leadership has long been an integral part of the out-of-classroom experience at MIT. In this series, we hear from some of the students in leadership roles in the MIT community.Jessica J....
View ArticleScience Fiction Society’s massive library is out of this world
Nearly 200 MIT students, alumni and local residents form MIT’s Science Fiction Society, which curates an enormous library containing more than 90 percent of all English language science fiction ever...
View ArticleQ&A: Junot Díaz on his new book
Junot Díaz may work slowly, in his own estimation, but the results are fast-moving stories that quickly etch themselves in our minds. The story collection This Is How You Lose Her, published today by...
View ArticleThe art of being interdisciplinary
MIT medievalist and literary scholar Arthur Bahr is excited about teaching the Institute’s engineering and science students — not least because he gains fresh perspective on his own historical field...
View ArticleMIT students to visit Belgium on study-trip
Cathy Culot takes comics very seriously. A lecturer in MIT's Foreign Languages and Literatures section, Culot grew up in Belgium, a country in which comic-strip albums today represent 60 percent of all...
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