SHASS Weekly

In this week’s newsletter, we’re celebrating our 2026 graduates, celebrating our Graduate Program in Science Writing students’ collaboration with The Associated Press, celebrating staff and faculty award winners, and more!

In this week’s newsletter meet some of the School’s seniors in the SHASS Senior Gallery, enter the world of MIT Music professor and Grammy award-winning saxophonist Miguel Zenón, learn more about AI and its impact on jobs and democracy, and more.

In this week’s newsletter, learn about senior Olivia Honeycutt’s investigation into how language shapes our worlds, watch MIT students’ three-minute videos about life at the Institute, discover students’ artistic explorations of their worlds, and more.

In this week’s newsletter, meet the 2026 Levitan Teaching Award winners, learn how an MIT economist recommends avoiding an AI job apocalypse, meet SHASS’ Assistant Dean for Resource Development, and more.

In this week’s newsletter, meet new Guggenheim Fellow Kathleen Thelen, discover how an NC Ethics of Technology Fellow considers work and its value, see how an MIT senior combines his love for flying with an interest in policy, and more.