A bright light on New York’s Bengali past
When Alaudin Ullah was growing up in East Harlem in the 1970s and 1980s, he loved hip-hop, graffiti art, and the New York Yankees, like many kids did at the time. Still, there was one readily evident...
View ArticleLiving Climate Futures initiative showcases holistic approach to the climate...
The sun shone bright and warm on the Dertouzos Amphitheater at the Stata Center this past Earth Day as a panel of Indigenous leaders from across the country talked about their experiences with climate...
View ArticlePresident Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson of Iceland visits MIT
Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson, the president of Iceland, visited MIT on Friday, engaging in talks with several campus leaders and professors, and touring the Media Lab.Jóhannesson visited the Institute...
View ArticleA new board game highlights the colonized experience
In the popular board game “Puerto Rico,” players are placed in the role of colonial governors. Their task, while growing crops on plantations, is to earn points by shipping goods to Europe and owning...
View ArticleAncient African smelting technique sparks anew at MIT
The plumes of smoke that rose from East Campus one sunny May day could easily have been mistaken for a barbecue taking place in the courtyard. And indeed, burgers were on the grill. But the smoke was...
View Article3 Questions: John Durant on the new MIT Museum at Kendall Square
To the outside world, much of what goes on at MIT can seem mysterious. But the MIT Museum, whose new location is in the heart of Kendall Square, wants to change that. With a specially designed space by...
View ArticleChristopher Capozzola named senior associate dean for open learning
MIT Professor Christopher Capozzola has joined MIT Open Learning as senior associate dean, effective Aug. 1. Reporting to interim Vice President for Open Learning Eric Grimson, Capozzola will oversee...
View ArticleJohn Tirman, political theorist and executive director of the MIT Center for...
John Tirman, an MIT scholar in political theory and expert on U.S.-Iran relations and human security, passed away on the morning of Aug. 19 after suffering cardiac arrest. He was 72. Since 2004,...
View ArticleA diploma, a discovery, and an historic legacy
History and the future joined forces on Friday at a campus event honoring Robert Robinson Taylor, MIT’s first Black graduate and the first accredited Black architect in the United States. The gathering...
View Article“Ballet des Porcelaines” at MIT
A faraway island. An evil magician. A prince transformed into a teapot. A princess on a rescue mission.When the first performance of the “Ballet des Porcelaines” was staged at the Chateau de Morville...
View ArticleUncovering the rich connections between South Asia and MIT
In 1884, an article in a widely circulated Indian nationalist newspaper expounded on the value of a technical education for Indians who were being denied such opportunities by the colonial British...
View ArticleLessons in innovation based on values of the Cherokee Nation
Traditional Cherokee community values can broadly be condensed into four primary teachings that have guided members of the community through life and its challenges for centuries, two members of the...
View ArticleQ&A: Pouya Alimagham on the protest movement in Iran
Today’s protests in Iran have been cited as the biggest threat the Islamic Republic has faced since it seized power in 1979. Ignited over the regime’s mandatory veiling of women and the recent death of...
View ArticleRiddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?
The ancient Romans were masters of engineering, constructing vast networks of roads, aqueducts, ports, and massive buildings, whose remains have survived for two millennia. Many of these structures...
View ArticleLiving the history of Cairo
A bit of turbulence in the job market can affect people in different ways. Consider the Egyptian scholar Taqiyy al-Din Ahmad ibn 'Ali al-Maqrizi (1364-1442). In the early 1400s, after about a...
View ArticleLooking to the past to prepare for an uncertain future
Aviva Intveld, an MIT senior majoring in Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences, is accustomed to city life. But despite hailing from metropolitan Los Angeles, she has always maintained a love for...
View ArticleBuilding bridges to Ukraine through language, art, and community
In a new course that ran this Independent Activities Period (IAP), MIT students studied Ukrainian language and culture and heard from Ukrainian scholars, artists, and activists about the country and...
View ArticleAngela Davis: “We need to renew our commitments to struggle against racism”
MIT’s 49th annual Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took place Wednesday before an overflow crowd at Morss Hall and featured activist and author Angela Y. Davis as its...
View ArticleFour faculty receive MIT SHASS Research Fund awards for 2023
The annual MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) Research Fund supports research in the Institute's humanities, arts, and social science fields that shows promise of making an...
View ArticleIlluminating the successes and struggles of MIT Black history
When Victor Ransom ’42 arrived at MIT from New York City in 1941, he discovered a campus electrified by the war effort. People scurried between what he described as MIT’s “massive, unsympathetic...
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