SHASS Weekly
What do we know about the economics of AI?
Learn about the economics of AI, Boston’s school busing battles, a Grammy-nominated music professor, and more in this week’s newsletter.
The new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building
In this week’s newsletter, learn more about the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building, the story of a refugee who became an MIT graduate student, MIT’s Independent Activities Period, and more.
Get out the vote
This week’s newsletter features a conversation between MIT president Sally Kornbluth and MIT political scientist Ariel White about voter behavior, the search for truth in science and the humanities, children as language learners, and more.
Thirty years of DC interns
This week’s newsletter features the Department of Political Science’s Washington Summer Internship Program, a black hole consuming its host galaxy, SHASS events, and more.
Samurai in Japan, then engineers at MIT
This week’s newsletter highlights the history of some of MIT’s first Japanese students, artist Es Devlin’s Eugene McDermott Award, the 2025 MIT Rhodes Scholars, how generative AI sees the world, and more.
