SHASS Weekly
Samurai in Japan, then engineers at MIT
This week’s newsletter highlights the history of some of MIT’s first Japanese students, artist Es Devlin’s Eugene McDermott Award, the 2025 MIT Rhodes Scholars, how generative AI sees the world, and more.
Examining conflict can be serious and fun
Learn about MIT’s Civil Discourse project, which encourages scholarly debate and serves as a model for productive discussions among MIT Concourse students, systemic racism research at the Institute, student essays in the latest edition of Angles, and more.
MIT launches Human Insight Collaborative
MIT’s Human Insight Collaborative aims to elevate the human-centered disciplines and unite the Institute’s top scholars to help solve the world’s biggest challenges.
Misinformation is all around. How can we combat it?
This week’s newsletter features MIT political scientist Adam Berinsky on how to combat misinformation, MIT professor Justin Reich on the proliferation of tech in schools, a compelling argument for the humanities, and more.
Bridging anthropology and engineering for clean energy in Mongolia
Learn about how anthropologists and engineers are working together, a program that immerses students in French culture, upcoming events, and more.
