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Six from MIT awarded 2026 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Six MIT affiliates — Denisse Córdova Carrizales SM ’26; Ria Das ’21, MNG ’22; Ronak Desai; Stacy Godfreey-Igwe ’22; Arya Rao; and Ananthan Sadagopan ’24 — have been named 2026 P.D. Soros Fellows. In addition, P.D. Soros Fellow Avinash Vadali will begin a PhD in condensed-matter physics at MIT this fall. The fellowship provides immigrants […]
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MIT affiliates elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2026
Four MIT faculty members are among the roughly 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 22. Thirteen additional MIT alumni were also honored. One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the academy is also a leading center […]
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From poetry to tariffs: 14 SHASS classes available through MIT OpenCourseWare
For 25 years, OCW has been offering free online course materials from across the MIT curriculum.
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T.L. Taylor named 2026-27 CASBS Fellow
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing Professor T.L. Taylor has been named a 2026-27 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (CASBS), a highly selective residential program that convenes scholars from a wide range of disciplines for a year of focused research, collaborative exchange, and intellectual engagement. Professor Taylor — an […]
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Why bother with plausible deniability?
Picture this scenario in a business: An employee, Brad, disclosed some information that wound up in the hands of a competitor. He may not have meant to, but he did, and a few people at the firm know this. So, at the next company meeting, another employee, Linda, looks pointedly at Brad and says, “I […]
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