Faculty and Academic Staff

Anthropologists Manduhai Buyandelger and Lauren Bonilla discuss the humanistic perspective they bring to a project at the intersection of anthropology and engineering that is yielding promising results.

A new study shows that belonging to age-based groups, common in some global regions, influences finances and health.

MIT researchers who have received J-WAFS Solutions grants are taking their water and food technologies from the lab and implementing them in the real world, creating positive impacts for communities around the globe.

A new study shows someone’s beliefs about an LLM play a significant role in the model’s performance and are important for how it is deployed.

While women and men self-reported similar vaccination rates, unvaccinated women had less intention to get vaccinated than men.

In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, MIT physicists propose.

Discounting calculations are ubiquitous today — thanks partly to the English clergy who spread them amid turmoil in the 1600s, an MIT scholar shows.

Research surveys show warnings issued by world leaders are taken equally seriously whether issued on social media or through formal statements.

Letting people work with a “navigator” dramatically increases how often they move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods.