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Six MIT SHASS educators receive 2025 Levitan Teaching Awards
“These educators are some of the finest instructors at MIT,” says SHASS Dean Agustín Rayo
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Building bridges between science and the humanities
Senior Omar Orozco wants to use storytelling and the arts to help educate the next generation of computer scientists, mathematicians, and engineers.
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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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In the media
Illness is not a personal failure
Time
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment
The Guardian
No, AI isn’t going to fix the loneliness epidemic — it may make it worse
CNN
Trump and GOP test precedent with aggressive voter roll purges
CNN
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