SHASS News
Timeless virtues, new technologies
As the story goes, the Scottish inventor James Watt envisioned how steam engines should work on one day in 1765, when he was walking across Glasgow Green, a park in his hometown. Watt realized that putting a separate condenser in an engine would allow its main cylinder to remain hot, making the engine more efficient […]
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MIT Human Insight Collaborative announces funding awards for inaugural series of projects
The selected projects feature “an incredible array of bold, creative proposals and ideas,” says MIT President Sally Kornbluth.
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David Darmofal SM ’91, PhD ’93 named vice chancellor for undergraduate and graduate education
David L. Darmofal SM ’91, PhD ’93 will serve as MIT’s next vice chancellor for undergraduate and graduate education, effective Feb. 17. Chancellor Melissa Nobles announced Darmofal’s appointment today in a letter to the MIT community. Darmofal succeeds Ian A. Waitz, who stepped down in May to become MIT’s vice president for research, and Daniel […]
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MIT’s Compass to life
An exciting initiative from across SHASS explores the persistent moral and social questions central to the human experience: what is value, merit, truth, a good society?
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Investigating the intersection of law and technology
Alex Reiss-Sorokin PhD ’24 probes the impact of automation on both the practice of law and the people who make jurisprudence possible.
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