Said and Done

 

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QUOTABLE

“The future of our species depends on better policies for energy and climate issues — and that progress requires an informed public.” 

— Philip Hilts, Director, Knight Science Journalism Fellowships

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REMEMBERING


Mens • Manus • Fortis
Over the past week,  MIT paused to observe the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings and the death of MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, who was killed in service to our community. In her moving remarks at a ceremony of remembrance, Sara Ferry, an MIT graduate student who knew Collier, said, “Sean’s life was lost, but his spirit remains and has been amplified a hundredfold. This community has been strengthened by countless new bonds of friendship and support.” 
Stories at MIT News  |  MITStrong  | Collier Fund  The Run: 24.8 Kilosmoots   
 

Photograph, Dominick Reuter, MIT News

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HONORS AND AWARDS 

 

ANTHROPOLOGY
Heather Paxson named 2014 MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Every year, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program recognizes a handful of professors who are exceptional undergraduate teachers, educational innovators, and mentors. This year’s awardees included SHASS scholar Heather Anne Paxson, an Associate Professor of Anthropology.  
Story  |  Gallery: The SHASS MacVicar Faculty Fellows


MISTI | MIT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES
April Julich Perez receives 2014 MIT Excellence Award
Perez, Associate Director of MISTI, a program of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, has been honored for her extraordinary leadership with a 2014 MIT Excellence Award.  
Story 
 

FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Bruno Perreau awarded 2014-15 Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship
Perreau, who was recently promoted to Associate Professor of French Studies in Foreign Languages and Literatures, has received a Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowship for 2014-15. The Stanford Humanities Center is a multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to advancing knowledge about culture, philosophy, history, and the arts.
Story
 

L to R: Heather Paxson, Associate Professor of Anthropology; April Julich Perez, Associate Director, MISTI program; Bruno Perreau, Associate Professor of French Studies 
 

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FEATURE 

 

 

KNIGHT SCIENCE JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPS AT MIT

KSJ Bootcamp cites communications as key to progress on climate change 
The distinguished presenters at the KSJ Bootcamp on Energy and Climate Change emphasized that scientists have established the evidence about climate change, and journalists now have a crucial role to educate the public about its impacts. “The climate change crisis is no longer primarily a scientific problem. At this stage, it is a communications issue," said Scott Denning, Monfort Professor of Atmosphere Science at Colorado State University. In his remarks, Philip Hilts, director of the KSJ program said “The future of our species depends on better policies for energy and climate issues — and that progress requires an informed public.”  
Story


KSJ Tracker raises the bar for science media
3 Questions with Paul Raeburn, chief media critic for the KSJ Tracker
Interview 

 

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MORE HONORS 

 

MUSIC
MIT Chamber Music Society celebrates its 40th year 
Of the anniversary, Marcus Thompson, Professor of Music, and Director of the CMS says, “MIT has gone from being a tech school to being a place that prepares people to take a leadership role in society. For leadership, you have to understand the human condition, ambiguity, how peoples’ thoughts and feelings are shaped, communities that are different from your own. These abilities are all cultivated by the discipline of music.”
Story |  MIT Chamber Music Recordings  

 

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MUSIC
Elena Ruehr receives 2014 Guggenheim Award 
Ruehr, a lecturer in MIT Music, said the award will help her write an opera for "Roomful of Teeth," an eight-voice a cappella group that visits MIT his fall. Ruehr said that when she discovered she had been awarded a Guggenheim, "I wrote a little song. It's such an honor to get this validation."
Story  |  Website  |  MIT Spectrum: Music Resounding


THEATER
"Operation Epsilon" production receives four IRNE Awards | Alan Brody
The Independent Reviewers of New England awarded the Nora Theater Company's production of MIT Professor of Theater Alan Brody's play "Operation Epsilon" with four awards in the midsize theater category: Best New Play, Best Set Design, Best Ensemble, and Best Director.  
Story  |  Brody website 

 
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
J-PAL, Duflo, and Banerjee receive the 2014 Albert O. Hirschman Prize 
From the Hirschman commendation: "Like Hirschman, [Duflo and Banerjee] have been committed to the idea of producing new social scientific knowledge and so expanding frontiers of discovery while also confronting deep practical and ethical issues."
Commendation | J-PAL website 

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Political Scientist Danny Hidalgo wins Kellogg/Notre Dame Award
Hidalgo and his co-author, Simeon Nichter (UCSD) have won the 2014 Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for the best paper in comparative politics, “Voter Buying: Shaping the Electorate through Clientelism,” awarded by the Midwest Political Science Association. 
Profile  |  Paper: Voter Buying

POLITICAL SCIENCE 
Adam Berinsky and Chris Warshaw receive MITEI Seed Grant Award
MIT political scientists Berinsky and Warshaw have been awarded a 2014 MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) Seed Fund grant, to measure public opinion on an array of state-level energy policies. Their findings will provide new insights into the politics of U.S. energy policy. 
Story at MITEI website  |  Berinsky profile  |  Warshaw profile 
 

 TOP: L to R: Elena Ruehr, Composer, MIT SHASS Music Program; Alan Brody, Playwright, MIT Professor of Theater; Aberjit Banerjee, Ford Professor of Economics, and Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation & Development; Banerjee and Duflo are founders/directors of J-PAL.
BOTTOM: L to R: Daniel Hidalgo, Assistant Professor of Political Science; Adam Berinsky, Professor of Political Science; Christopher Washaw, Assistant Professor of Political Science 

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RESEARCH