SHASS Weekly

In this week’s newsletter, meet the 2025 Levitan Teaching Awards winners, learn about research into choosing kidney transplant recipients, music with the Pops and MIT’s art installations, and more.

This week’s newsletter explores tech’s daily impacts on humanity, a writer and chemist’s exploration of work at the intersection of art, history, and science, Lupe Fiasco and the Arts at MIT, and more.

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.

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.

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.