3 Questions: Anne McCants on climate change in history
MIT faculty, students, and alumni in the humanistic fields have research-informed perspectives that can help the world address the myriad social and ecological impacts of climate change. The following...
View Article3 Questions: How MIT experienced the 1918-19 flu pandemic
Just over a century ago, the world grappled with a major pandemic when the H1N1 influenza virus infected about 500 million people in 1918 and 1919. When the virus first appeared, MIT had just relocated...
View ArticleHow growth of the scientific enterprise influenced a century of quantum physics
Austrian quantum theorist Erwin Schrödinger first used the term “entanglement,” in 1935, to describe the mind-bending phenomenon in which the actions of two distant particles are bound up with each...
View ArticleMeet the MIT bilinguals: Dual history and planetary science major Charlotte...
“I wasn’t someone who grew up thinking of MIT as my dream school. But, at the end of the day I knew I couldn’t say no to MIT.” It was not a lack of enthusiasm or appreciation for MIT that Charlotte...
View ArticleSix from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2020
Six MIT faculty members are among more than 250 leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced...
View ArticleMesoamerican copper smelting technology aided colonial weaponry
When Spanish invaders arrived in the Americas, they were generally able to subjugate the local peoples thanks, in part, to their superior weaponry and technology. But archeological evidence indicates...
View ArticleCharlotte Minsky and Lyndie Mitchell Zollinger named 2020 Gates Cambridge...
MIT seniors Charlotte Minsky and Lyndie Mitchell Zollinger have won the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which offers students an opportunity to pursue graduate study in the field of their...
View ArticleThe complex effects of colonial rule in Indonesia
The areas of Indonesia where Dutch colonial rulers built a huge sugar-producing industry in the 1800s remain more economically productive today than other parts of the country, according to a study...
View Article3 Questions: Isabelle de Courtivron on the shock of becoming old
“Only those in whom youth has not entirely died are capable of speaking of old age,” writes Benoite Groult; this makes MIT Professor Emerita Isabelle de Courtivron eminently qualified to write on the...
View Article3 Questions: Professor Kenda Mutongi on Africa, women, power — and human decency
MIT Professor Kenda Mutongi teaches courses in African history, world history, and gender history, and serves on the MIT Africa Working Group. She is the author of two award-winning books: “Matatu: A...
View ArticleHow to stage a revolution
Revolutions are monumental social upheavals that can remake whole nations, dismantling — often violently — old paradigms. But the stories of the epic struggles that leave their mark on the world’s...
View ArticleExploring hip hop history with art and technology
A new museum is coming to New York City in 2023, the year of hip-hop’s 50th birthday, and an MIT team has helped to pave the way for the city to celebrate the legacy of this important musical genre —...
View ArticleMIT Press authors earn coveted “best of” book honors in 2019
The MIT Press recently announced that six MIT Press authors were awarded “best of” recognition in 2019. From Bill Gates’ recommendation of “Growth,” by one of his “favorite authors,” to “2016 in...
View Article3 Questions: Shola Lawal on human rights and social justice
It’s been a banner year for Nigerian journalist Shola Lawal. The young reporter, who focuses on human rights and social justice issues, was selected as the 2019 International Women’s Media Foundation’s...
View ArticleBringing figures in anticolonial politics out of the shadows
Independence movements are complicated. Consider Burma (now Myanmar), which was governed as a province of British India until 1937, when it was separated from India. Burma then attained self-rule in...
View ArticleUncovering the role of technology and medicine in deaf and signing worlds
If the joy and excitement of following your own path could be personified, it would look like Timothy Loh. A love of languages led him nearly around the world to study, and then to MIT, where he is a...
View ArticleMIT art installation aims to empower a more discerning public
Videos doctored by artificial intelligence, culturally known as “deepfakes,” are being created and shared by the public at an alarming rate. Using advanced computer graphics and audio processing to...
View ArticlePhD student Marc Aidinoff explores how technology impacts public policy
“Computers have encapsulated so many collective hopes and fears for the future,” says Marc Aidinoff, a PhD candidate in History/Anthropology/Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), a doctoral program...
View ArticleHistorian of the hinterlands
History can help us face hard truths. The places Kate Brown studies are particularly full of them. Brown, a historian in MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, has made a career out of...
View ArticleMeet the 2019 tenured professors in the School of Humanities, Arts, and...
Dean Melissa Nobles and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) announced that five members of the school's faculty members have received tenure. Their extensive research and...
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