SHASS News
MITHIC holds celebratory event for 2025 project recipients
“Your work will allow us to deepen our understanding of what it means to be human,” says MIT President Sally Kornbluth
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Ray Kurzweil ’70 receives the 2025 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award
The prolific inventor, thinker, and futurist is being honored for his contributions to literature, music, and technology.
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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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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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In the media
Nobel prizes this year offer three cheers for slow science
The New York Times
Mangrum’s comical computation
Recall This Book
Can Trump end this impossibly cruel practice?
The New York Times
Zen and the art of midlife maintenance
WBUR
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Faculty-Driven Initiative: Living Climate Futures Lab
