SHASS Weekly
Music Building opens with Sonic Jubilance
This week’s newsletter features the public opening of the Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building with Sonic Jubilance, a Carnegie Fellowship for an MIT political scientist, AI’s potential impacts on jobs and learning, and more.
The human body, its movement, and music
This week’s newsletter features research into how pianists play, a new book about the growth of America’s retail sector, MITHIC funding for new projects, and more.
Opening the doors of perception: Perspectives on SHASS
This week’s SHASS Weekly newsletter features a humanities-themed roundtable discussion with an alumnus, a professor, and a second-year, an McElheny Award-winning expose on fracking, a philosopher on language, and more.
Ray Kurzweil ’70 receives the 2025 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award
In this week’s newsletter, learn about Robert Muh Alumni Award recipient Ray Kurzweil ’70, war games with Europe, the possible origins of spoken language, and more.
Two SHASS professors named 2025 MacVicar Faculty Fellows
In this week’s edition of SHASS Weekly, meet the newly named MacVicar Faculty Fellows, learn how to build trust in science via empathy and conversation, discover MIT’s QS World University rankings, and more.
