SHASS Weekly

Two SHASS professors named 2025 MacVicar Faculty Fellows
In this week’s edition of SHASS Weekly, meet the newly named MacVicar Faculty Fellows, learn how to build trust in science via empathy and conversation, discover MIT’s QS World University rankings, and more.

Why rationality can push people in different directions
In this week’s newsletter, learn about how a philosopher investigates rationality and its application in human lives, the interconnectedness of supply chains, a fascinating course about DJ’ing, music history, and tech, and more.

A leg up for STEM majors
In this week’s newsletter, learn about the value of political science studies for STEM majors, high marks for SHASS disciplines, 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholars, and more.

MIT Human Insight Collaborative launches SHASS Faculty Fellows Program
In this edition of SHASS Weekly, learn more about the SHASS Faculty Fellows Program, American attitudes on global policies, the pedagogical possibilities of dance, and more.

Bridging philosophy and AI to explore computing ethics
In this week’s newsletter, learn about an exciting new course that tackles ethical dilemmas unique to the digital age, an MIT political scientist who’s Committed to Caring, how an MIT economist measures school quality, and more.