SHASS Weekly
Ray Kurzweil ’70 reinforces his optimism in tech progress
This week’s newsletter features alumnus Ray Kurzweil delivering the 2025 Muh Award Lecture, a new initiative focused on reducing poverty in the Global South, theater at the Institute, and more.
Reimagining sound and space
This week’s newsletter features the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building, the curious trade practices countries employ during conflicts, new research on AI, labor, and automation, and more.
Meet the newly tenured members of the SHASS faculty
This week’s newsletter features the newly tenured members of the SHASS faculty, exciting SHASS/MISTI Global Classroom projects, MIT economists’ research on guaranteed income, and more.
MIT without borders
This week’s newsletter features MISTI and its global reach, the the distance between Americans’ thoughts and their actions on taxes, a fascinating course on stage lighting, and more.
Music and technology intertwined
In this week’s newsletter, learn about a new graduate program in music technology and computation at MIT, Haiti’s complex history, a political science doctoral student’s research into shocks to so-called “welfare systems,” and more.
