Social sciences
Said and Done
July 4, 2011
Humanities, arts and social sciences digest for June 2011
Lawson named MISTI director
May 31, 2011
Political science associate professor succeeds Suzanne Berger
A champion of Creole
May 12, 2011
Linguist Michel DeGraff is on a quest to give Haitian Creole its due as a respected language — and to help Haitian schoolchildren learn in their native tongue.
Also labeled: Education, teaching, academics, Faculty, Haiti, Linguistics, Literature, languages and writing
Of minds and machines
May 9, 2011
Final installment of MIT’s 150th anniversary symposia explores intelligence — both human and artificial.
Looking beyond English
May 5, 2011
MIT professor uses linguistics in an ESL classroom to teach scientific principles, empower a new generation of critical thinkers.
A new revolution
May 3, 2011
Egyptian Facebook activists visit MIT, representing a new non-violent movement in the Middle East.
Also labeled: Activism, Center for International Studies, Egypt, Revolution, Special events and guest speakers, Students
Said and Done
April 21, 2011
Humanities, arts and social sciences digest for April 2011
Said and Done
March 7, 2011
Humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for March 2011
Also labeled: Arts, Awards, honors and fellowships, Humanities, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Music, Students
Martin Hackl's Experimental Syntax and Semantics Lab generates knowledge about meaning formation
February 15, 2011
Role of linguistic form stronger than previously realized.
Ask a linguist: Q&A with David Pesetsky
February 9, 2011
Professor, AAAS fellow discusses 'Universal Grammar,' relationship between language and music
Said and Done
February 2, 2011
Humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for February 2011
The lonely crowd
January 18, 2011
In a new book, Sherry Turkle documents the sometimes-detrimental effects of technology on our families and social lives.
Said and Done
January 4, 2011
Humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for January 2011
Also labeled: Arts, Awards, honors and fellowships, Books and authors, Economics, History, Humanities, MIT150, Students
CIS's Précis examines research, student work
December 20, 2010
Late fall edition of the biannual publication now available.
Diamond to receive Nobel at ceremony on Friday
December 9, 2010
Tech support?
December 9, 2010
Contrasting views on display as MIT researchers debate how technology can curb global poverty.
Can telecom data help redraw political boundaries?
December 9, 2010
By analyzing one of the world’s largest databases of phone data, researchers partition Great Britain into densely interconnected regions.
A hardy Constitution
December 3, 2010
In Ratification, historian Pauline Maier uncovers the contentious debates behind a political document that many Americans once opposed.
MISTI 2.0 selects new grantees
December 1, 2010
Seven student projects awarded funding.
Also labeled: Awards, honors and fellowships, Graduate, postdoctoral, Global, MISTI, Students, Undergraduate, Humanities
Said and Done
November 29, 2010
Humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for November 2010
Also labeled: Arts, Awards, honors and fellowships, Books and authors, Economics, Faculty, Humanities, Music, Nobel Prizes
MIT students expand their horizons as Burchard Scholars
November 23, 2010
Program brings together MIT sophomores and juniors with humanities, arts and social sciences faculty for eight elegant dinner-seminars.
How wise are crowds?
November 16, 2010
By melding economics and engineering, researchers show that as social networks get larger, they usually get better at sorting fact from fiction.
Explained: Currency wars
November 15, 2010
Countries are clashing over their currency prices. Why?
7 win presidential early career honors
November 8, 2010
MIT has greatest number of recipients from a single institution.
MIT economist Peter Diamond wins Nobel Prize
October 11, 2010
Honored with two others for work on 'analysis of markets with search frictions'
Said and Done
July 7, 2010
Humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for July 2010
Also labeled: Arts, Awards, honors and fellowships, Faculty, Haiti, History, Humanities, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy
Said and Done
April 5, 2010
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences digest for April 2010
The sound and the query
March 26, 2010
Why do questions take the form they do? An MIT linguist explains how the noises we make help to shape the sentences we speak.
Also labeled: India
Burchard Scholars for 2010 announced
February 3, 2010
34 MIT undergraduates selected who excel in the humanities, arts, and social sciences
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