SHASS Weekly
Study reveals the role of geography in the opioid crisis
In this week’s newsletter, learn more about how geography might be impacting America’s opioid crisis, meet MIT’s newly minted Rhodes Scholars, enjoy selected MIT student essays, and more.
Q&A: How MITHIC is fostering a culture of collaboration at MIT
This week’s newsletter features reporting on the value of MITHIC, an AI-centered comic based on writing from Nobel laureates, research on charts as social artifacts, and more.
Studying war in the new nuclear age
In this week’s newsletter, learn how MIT alumna Caitlin Talmadge’s work investigates war in the nuclear age, discover a Comparative Media Studies/Writing professor of the practice’s love letter to science and scientists, discover how students are learning about exercise as medicine, and more.
Turning science into stories
In this week’s SHASS Weekly, discover the Graduate Program in Science Writing, learn how Global Languages helps create well-rounded problem solvers, explore a new, student-led museum exhibit, and more.
Improving the workplace of the future
In this week’s newsletter, learn about an economics doctoral student’s research into how organizations’ technological decisions shape labor markets, a Comparative Media Studies/Writing professor’s book and its journey to the big screen, a political science staffer’s work on behalf of faculty and students, and more.
