SHASS News
A Renaissance woman for the modern age
In “Hagiography in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron,” lecturer Leanna Bridge Rezvani paints a fascinating portrait of an iconoclastic writer, advocate, scholar, and reformer.
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Twelve professors selected for 2026-27 cohort of SHASS Faculty Fellows
Selected fellows include professors from Anthropology, History, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, and Science, Technology, and Society
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MIT hackathon tackles real-world challenges in Ukraine
Build for Ukraine 2.0 united students, researchers, and Ukrainian collaborators to prototype solutions shaped by wartime conditions.
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Seeing sounds
Mariano Salcedo ’25, a master’s student in the new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program, is designing an AI to visualize and express music and other sounds.
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QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2026
The Institute also ranks second in seven subject areas.
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In the media
Flawed audit did not find 228,000 invalid Mamdani votes
Reuters
Dry texting: The meaning behind teens’ short texts
Boston 25 News
Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu says AI and liberal democracy share the same crisis: ‘there is a tendency to escalate everything’
Fortune
Trump turns to containing the fallout from setbacks in Iran
The Los Angeles Times
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Anthro-Engineering: Green Steel, Green Jobs
