SHASS Weekly

In this week’s newsletter, meet the graduate students working on the future of music computation and technology, the new heads of MIT’s Department of Economics and History and Literature Sections, student and faculty award winners, and more.

In this week’s newsletter, we recap the AI and Society Forum, review the Living Climate Futures symposium, learn how Theater Arts professor Sara Brown teaches students to think visually, and more.

In this week’s newsletter, we’re celebrating our 2026 graduates, celebrating our Graduate Program in Science Writing students’ collaboration with The Associated Press, celebrating staff and faculty award winners, and more!

In this week’s newsletter meet some of the School’s seniors in the SHASS Senior Gallery, enter the world of MIT Music professor and Grammy award-winning saxophonist Miguel Zenón, learn more about AI and its impact on jobs and democracy, and more.

In this week’s newsletter, learn about senior Olivia Honeycutt’s investigation into how language shapes our worlds, watch MIT students’ three-minute videos about life at the Institute, discover students’ artistic explorations of their worlds, and more.