SHASS Weekly
Improving understanding with language
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.
Six MIT SHASS educators receive 2026 Levitan Teaching Awards
In this week’s newsletter, meet the 2026 Levitan Teaching Award winners, learn how an MIT economist recommends avoiding an AI job apocalypse, meet SHASS’ Assistant Dean for Resource Development, and more.
Professor Kathleen Thelen awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship
In this week’s newsletter, meet new Guggenheim Fellow Kathleen Thelen, discover how an NC Ethics of Technology Fellow considers work and its value, see how an MIT senior combines his love for flying with an interest in policy, and more.
Seeing sounds
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.
Q&A with Dean Rayo
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.
