SHASS Weekly

In this week’s newsletter, meet an MIT graduate student developing a new kind of AI, learn how an MIT anthropologist is investigating medicine and its impacts on certain communities, meet new award winners, and more.

In this week’s newsletter, we speak with SHASS dean Agustín Rayo about AI and the humanities, learn about a fascinating project to recreate ancient musical instruments, investigate farming at home, and more.

In this week’s newsletter, meet a linguistics graduate student working to preserve an endangered language, say hello to the MIT Human Insight Collaborative’s new faculty co-leads, discover how a political science professor is trying to boost American manufacturing, and more.

In this week’s newsletter, meet the newly minted SHASS Faculty Fellows for 2026-27, learn how anthropology is helping to improve chatbots, discover the possibilities in an exploding black hole, and more.

This week’s newsletter features a theater course featuring student-, faculty-, and staff-led productions, another year of high humanities rankings for MIT, the value of urban gardens, and more.