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Previous Magazine Issues

 

 

Spring 2009

Economic Toolmakers

Behind the Scenes in Theater
Why Save Languages?  

Profiles:
Professor Diana Henderson
Professor Janet Sonenberg
Edward Hoyt '57                  



Fall 2008 

 
Educating Global Citizens
MISTI at 25
Safeguarding Voting Technology

Profile:
Professor Charles Stewart III
                           

 

 


 

Newsletter: 1998—2008
A School newsletter (also called Soundings) was published for ten years, beginning in 1998.  In the Fall of 2008, Dean Fitzgerald launched Soundings Magazine. All issues of the former newsletter are archived and available on this page.  
 

 

Spring 2008

Three SHASS authors
The writer's craft

Fall 2007

Getting serious about casual games: Exploring the frontiers of the independent game industry at GAMBIT
Bàkks and polyrhythms: sabar drumming at MIT

Spring 2007

The energy crisis

Fall 2006

How economies and economists work: A conversation with Daron Acemoglu

Spring 2006

Learning to ask new questions: Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies moves to MIT
Emma Teng awarded 2005 Levitan Prize

Fall 2005

The China hands:Conversations with the SHASS China cadre

Spring 2005

Conversation with Professor Melissa Nobles: The politics of counting
Dower receives Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award

Fall 2004

Ten things you probably didn't know about SHASS!
A language is reborn

Spring 2004

Conversation with Professor Esther Duflo:Saving the world, precisely
New international minor at MIT

Fall 2003

Conversation 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

Spring 2003

Rethinking culture

Fall 2002

The hopeful democrat
Stepping up!
Science Writing Program opens its doors
Planting seeds

Spring 2002

Breaking icons, lyrically

Fall 2001

Getting a fix on complexity
Biting the hand that feeds it
Beyond the dramatic norm
The democratizing quotient

Spring 2001

Crossing boundaries

Fall 2000

Walking, talking, oxymoron
50 years: The SHASS timeline
Luminaries

Spring 2000

One-world dilemmas

Fall 1999

Ears need to be broad
Crossing linguistic and cultural boundaries
Super-power sense and sensibility

Spring 1999

Creative tensions

Fall 1998

Sharp tongue, maverick mind
Covering black holes, fossil worms, and a cure for cancer
What's in a word
Feeling most alive

Spring 1998

Iconoclasm revisited
The China connection
Programs and possibilities