Said and Done Magazine
Published monthly by the Office of the Dean
2009—present
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Summer 2012
Commencement 2012: Story + Photobooth Portraits
Public Understanding of Science: Higgs Boson Commentary
MIT Economists find evidence for "comparative advantage"
MIT Economist Robert Townsend wins Frisch Medal (again!)
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May 2012
Cuthbert Finkelstein receives the Bates Clark Medal
Theater artist Jay Scheib wins 2012 OBIE Best Director Award
Honoring President Hockfield | Welcoming President-elect Reif
Think you're funny? Apply for a DeFlorez Grant for Humor
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April 2012
MIT establishes Center for Art, Science & Technology
Faculty Promotions
Composer Keeril Makan receives Guggenheim Fellowship
MIT SHASS welcomes PEN New England to MIT
Historian Elizabeth Wood on the protests in Russia
Yablo, Autor, and Finkelstein elected to AAAS
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March 2012
Cuthbert receives $500K NEH grant for innovative musicology
Underwter archaeology: hunt for the ancient mariner
Video: U.S. Health Care Reform Law–in 3 minutes
Video: The Scientist as Storyteller
Adam Berinsky on the unpredictable GOP campaign
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January 2012
What's next for the Occupy Wall Street movement?
Questions of ultimate reality in Lightman's new novel, Mr. g
Economist Gruber on U.S. health reform legislation
Linguistics at MIT celebrates 50 years
Jay Scheib's World of Wires premieres in NYC
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December 2011
Heim elected a Fellow of the Linguistics Society of America
Stephanie Lin '12 wins Rhodes Scholarship
Allen Lin '11 named Marshall Scholar
Science Writing Gallery
GZA visits MIT
Historian Kaledin: A Tocqueville for our time
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November 2011
Samuels awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun
Economics alum Papademos, named prime minister of Greece
Wealth disparity in Boston
Economist Michael Piore on collective bargaining
Historian William Broadhead rethinks the fall of Rome's republic
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October 2011
MIT Concert Office unveils fall programming
In Profile: Political Scientist Suzanne Berger
Acemoglu on the Euro debt crisis and the U.S. economy
In Profile: Daniel Posner
Kothari named director of MISTI-India
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September 2011
Anthropologist James Howe: The Kuna Celebrations
Aoun awarded Robert A. Muh Alumni Award
New Faculty
Mellon Fellows for 2011-2013 announced
New exhibit showcases the MIT humanities, arts, social sciences
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July/August 2011
MIT report cites arts as essential to mission
MIT Chamber group performs Brahms
Economist Gruber's ideas on health care
Political scientist Lenz: The looks of political candidates
2011 Infinite Mile Award winners honored
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June 2011
Photo gallery from Commencement Reception
Historian Maier wins George Washington Book Prize
Asian culture through a lens
Historian Turkle: Are we alone together?
Lawson named new MISTI director
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May 2011
Economist Esther Duflo named to the 2011 TIME 100
Google cites value of humanities PhDs
Levitan Teaching Award winners announced
Knight Science Journalism Fellows named
Composer Harbison wins AMC's Founder Award
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April 2011
Theater director Jay Scheib wins Guggenheim Fellowship
Maier's Ratification is finalist for Washington Book Award
Inside Tahrir Square | CIS Starr Forum
Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Japan's nuclear crisis and governmental response
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March 2011
Historian Williams: Communications in slow-moving crises
The Evolution of Economic Science
2011 MITSO Concerto Competition
Experimental Syntax and Semantics Lab
Smithsonian & CMS launch online mystery game
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Economics symposium launches MIT 150th
Linguist Pesetsky elected Fellow of AAAS
Author Bartusiak awarded Davis Prize
FAST Arts Festival events
Literature scholar Fuller to lead NEH seminar at MIT
Turkle's Alone Together published
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New Faculty
MISTI research collaboration in China
Quanta Chair in Chinese Culture established
3 Questions: Evelyn Fox Keller
Historian Kaiser elected Fellow of APS
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Maier's Ratification published to acclaim
How wise are crowds? Economics and Engineering
Fox-Harrell convenes NEA/NSF conference
New Faculty announced
Burchard scholar Lai wins Rhodes Scholarship
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Diamond wins Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences
Fuller wins Levitan Prize in Humanities
Baird and Saez win MacArthur "genius" awards
Ziporyn has major concert season
Defining Recessions: Jim Poterba
BSO begins cycle of Harbison symphonies
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Energy issues call on humanities, social sciences
Anthropologist Helmreich wins Bateson Book Prize
Profile: Economist Parag Pathak
Historian Dower's Cultures of War reviewed
Influence of the humanities on data visualization
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McElheny: Drawing the Map of Life
Conference honors Philosopher Judith Thomson
Economist Pathak on housing
Political Scientist Lenz on electoral candidates
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State of the Art: Music at MIT
Profiles: Cuthbert, Tang, Makan
DeGraff on role of Creole in rebuilding Haiti
Deveau inaugurates new hall in Rockport
Erica James: Democratic Insecurities
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Global Water Issues
A Philosopher's Dozen: Stephen Yablo
Awards to Sally Haslanger, David Jones
and Fred Harris
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Esther Duflo receives the Clark Medal
Howe on anthropology's shift to a collaborative model
Thomson on hard-wiring for a basic moral sense
Memorial service for Paul Samuelson
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Office of the Dean moves to 4-212 and 4-240
Norvin Richards named MacVictor Faculty Fellow
Proflie:Robert Muh
Premiere of Harbison work to honor Peter Diamond
Rebuilding Haiti: A Starr Forum
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Harriet Ritvo: The Dawn of Green
Patricia Gercik receives MIT Excellence Award
Cuthbert develops computer framework for music theory
David Mindell on Obama's NASA proposal
Jeff Ravel on Diderot's Encyclopédie
Video: Paul Krugman on history as guide for the economy
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PBS Interview: Ellen Harris on Handel's Messiah
MIT experts on health care reform
Haldeman receives highest honor from science fiction community
Economist Werning on unemployment insurance
Nobel laureate Robert Solow on recovery from the economic crisis
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Curated game on climate change from the Education Arcade
Jim Walsh on Iran's nuclear ambition
Rosalind Williams on Jules Verne, anti-globalization visionary
Two Burchard Scholars win Rhodes Scholarships
New York Times article on the revolution led by J-PAL economists
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Diagnosis: four School experts on U.S. health policy
Profile: Craig Wilder, Professor of History
Faculty Promotions, Honors, and New Appointments
Tea with a Warlord: Fotini Christia
Travels with Melville: Wyn Kelley
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Soundings Magazine
Published biannually by the Office of the Dean
2008—2010
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State of the Art
Medieval Tech
A Philosopher's Dozen
Profiles:
Dr. Bette Davis
Kenneth Wang '71
Mise en Scene
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Health Reform | Diagnosis
Travels with Melville
Tea with a Warlord
Profiles:
Wyn Kelley
Robert Muh '59
Mise en Scene
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Economic Toolmakers
Behind the Scenes in Theater
Why Save Languages?
Profiles:
Professor Diana Henderson
Professor Janet Sonenberg
Edward Hoyt '57
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Educating Global Citizens
The MISTI Program at 25
Safeguarding Voting Technology
Profile:
Professor Charles Stewart III
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Soundings Newsletter
Published biannually by the Office of the Dean
1998—2008
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Three SHASS authors
The writer's craft
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Getting serious about casual games: Exploring the frontiers of the independent game industry at GAMBIT
Bàkks and polyrhythms: sabar drumming at MIT
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The energy crisis
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How economies and economists work: A conversation with Daron Acemoglu
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Learning to ask new questions: Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies moves to MIT
Emma Teng awarded 2005 Levitan Prize
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The China hands:Conversations with the SHASS China cadre
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Conversation with Professor Melissa Nobles: The politics of counting
Dower receives Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award
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Ten things you probably didn't know about the School
A language is reborn
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Conversation with Professor Esther Duflo:Saving the world, precisely
New international minor at MIT
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C
onversation with Professor Evan Ziporyn:A new sonic language
Glimpse into MIT's first interdisciplinary major
Book series: media in transition
Spotlight on MIT's Security Studies Program
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Rethinking culture
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The hopeful democrat
Stepping up!
Science Writing Program opens its doors
Planting seeds
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Breaking icons, lyrically
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Getting a fix on complexity
Biting the hand that feeds it
Beyond the dramatic norm
The democratizing quotient
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Crossing boundaries
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Walking, talking, oxymoron
50 years: The School timeline
Luminaries
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One-world dilemmas
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Ears need to be broad
Crossing linguistic and cultural boundaries
Super-power sense and sensibility
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Creative tensions
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harp tongue, maverick mind
Covering black holes, fossil worms, and a cure for cancer
What's in a word
Feeling most alive
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Iconoclasm revisited
The China connection
Programs and possibilities
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