MIT SHASS

Seeds of something different

SHASS and MIT's 24-Hour Challenge

Calvin Jacinto Macatantan - MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Lauren Higgins

Diamond Head

Alor Sahoo

Sabine Chu

Loreta Arzumanyan

Ugo Okwuadigbo

Bridging science and society in the emerging bioeconomy

Bringing the stage to the classroom

MIT Human Insight Collaborative announces funding awards for 25 projects

De Florez Fund for Humor

Stand Up Comedy Live! with Emily Catalano Tickets, Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite

Thirty-six exceptional MIT students selected as Burchard Scholars for 2026

Penumaka and Lodoen, 2025 Guillemin Prize winners, conduct dissertation research abroad

“MIT Open Learning has opened doors I never imagined possible”

MIT philosopher Kevin Dorst PhD '19 awarded 2026 Levitan Prize in the Humanities

Fostering MIT’s Japan connection

SPARK Retreat @ SHASS: Scholarly Productivity And Research Kickstart

The “delicious joy” of creating and recreating music

Rujul Gandhi '22

Meicen Sun PhD '22

Standup Comedy Crash Course - IAP 2026

Transforming Lives through Epilepsy Surgery

Ankita Reddy '19

Meeting the Next Generation

Explore spring 26 subjects at MIT SHASS

An intimate evening with the Ghost Hounds

MIT Sea Grant students explore the intersection of technology and offshore aquaculture in Norway

Mind, hand, and harvest

Levitan Teaching Awards

MIT Human Insight Collaborative

The science of consciousness

The Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building

Four from MIT named 2026 Rhodes Scholars

MF Gydus

Anthem Awards Community Voice

Dissolving boundaries with music

Stretching Minds and Bodies: MIT Students Learn Why Exercise is Medicine

Burchard Scholars Program

Ray Kurzweil ’70 reinforces his optimism in tech progress

Diana Gallagher

Designing a revolution

Improving the workplace of the future

Reimagining sound and space | MIT Technology Review

Meet the 2025 tenured professors in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Joshua Bennett awarded Institute for Advanced Study fellowship - MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

3 Questions: On humanizing scientists

Shocks to the welfare system

SHASS Weekly

Jennifer Jackson

Fall 2025 Subjects

Changing the conversation in health care

MIT Basketball Alum Makes World Games in Beach Korfball

Better public service with data

Stone Center on Inequality & Shaping the Future of Work

How government accountability and responsiveness affect tax payment

“FUTURE PHASES” showcases new frontiers in music technology and interactive performance

What Americans actually think about taxes

Helping cities evolve

What do we owe each other?

Opinion | We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse.

Exploring data and its influence on political behavior

Nourishing the Land

Mens et Manus et Music

MIT chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society inducts 75 graduating seniors

The scholar-warrior: How Erik Lin-Greenberg bridges academia and Air Force intelligence

2025 Wayfinder Award Winners presented by Kia

Cultivating Thinkers and Doers of Impossible Things

2025 Senior Gallery - MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Advanced Degree Ceremony | Commencement

SHASS Weekly May 28, 2025

Lit@MIT Summer 2025 Reading List

Supercharging Human-Centered Thinking

Willow Huang

The sweet taste of a new idea

Research spotlight: Eran Egozy on blending music and technology

Markey Freudenburg-Puricelli

Lia Bu

Deivy Houeix

How does our education shape us?

Shivali Singireddy

Making classical music and math more accessible

Six MIT SHASS educators receive 2025 Levitan Teaching Awards

Kaelyn Dunnell

Studying work, life, and economics

Lasya Balachandran

Katherine Ellison

MIT launches new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program

Alice Trang Le

Rachel Loh

Sophia Petrovas

Kyna McGill

Four from MIT awarded 2025 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

The human body, its movement, and music

Jolie Kim

Building bridges between science and the humanities

Ari Peró

Opening the doors of perception: Perspectives on SHASS

New Alliance for Data, Evaluation and Policy Training will advance data-driven decision-making in public policy

MITHIC holds celebratory event for 2025 project recipients

Decoding a medieval mystery manuscript

Ray Kurzweil ’70 receives the 2025 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award s

Stand-Up Comedy Live featuring Joel Kim Booster

Lit Tea x Artfinity

When did human language emerge?

Exploring rationality + AI and work + learning to DJ

Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star

Body of knowledge

Why rationality can push people in different directions

Levitan Teaching Awards

Andy Wilds

An “All-American” vision of service to others

De Florez Fund for Humor

MIT Human Insight Collaborative launches SHASS Faculty Fellows program

Mixing beats, history, and technology

Bridging philosophy and AI to explore computing ethics

MIT Human Insight Collaborative announces funding awards for inaugural series of projects

Timeless virtues, new technologies

Aligning AI with human values

Burchard Scholars

MIT student encourages all learners to indulge their curiosity with MIT Open Learning's MITx

Investigating the intersection of law and technology

Insights into political outsiders

A Doctor Finds Her Calling

Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize

MIT Human Insight Collaborative

Photos: 2024 Nobel winners with MIT ties honored in Stockholm

Spring 2025 Subjects - MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

MIT anthropologist Héctor Beltrán awarded 2025 Levitan Prize in the Humanities - MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Seen and heard: The new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building

MIT Women’s League fosters connections and community around campus

Transforming research through global collaborations

Making a mark in the nation’s capital

Kelly-Douglas Fund: Travel

Paradox and Infinity

Burchard Scholars Program

A new focus on understanding the human element

How examining conflict can be “intellectually serious” and “incredibly fun”

Human Insight Collaborative

LIVE WEBCAST | Administrative Staff Meeting

Stand-Up Comedy Live Featuring Tatanka Means and an All-Star Cast

Welcome to SHASS

How is the world watching the 2024 US election?

MIT SHASS Events

MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson share Nobel Prize in economics

Words of love, words of life: MTG’s “Spelling Bee” spins a spellbinding tale of the evolution of self | The Tech

Protecting the rights of internet users, in Mexico and worldwide

De Florez Fund for Humor

Rainbow Market

Students learn theater design through the power of play

Making a measurable economic impact

Spotlight on SHASS Classes – Fall 2024

Creating connection with science communication

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes nine new faculty

“The dance between autonomy and affinity creates morality”

2024 Senior Gallery - MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Risk, culture, and control

The study and practice of being human

License plates of MIT

The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

MIT SHASS: Standup Comedy Class

MIT SHASS: MIT chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society inducts 92 graduating seniors

A creation story told through immersive technology

A data-driven approach to making better choices

All in the family

MIT SHASS: News - 2024 - Advanced Degree Ceremony - Photo Gallery

The MIT Asymptones

Convening for cultural change

Q&A: A graduating student looks back on his MIT experience

Sky Is No Limit for Deaf Pilot

Discovering community and cultural connections

Studies in empathy and analytics

Exploring the history of data-driven arguments in public life

“No one can work in civil engineering alone”

J-PAL’s King Climate Action Initiative tackles the twin climate and poverty crises

MIT-Mexico Program fosters cross-border collaboration

Designing solutions to ensure equity in health care

MIT SHASS Kelly Douglas Traveling Fellowships

Understanding the impacts of mining on local environments and communities

Visiting scholars from Ukraine kick off Global MIT At-Risk Fellows Program

MIT SHASS 24-Hour Challenge

SHASS Levitan Teaching Awards

At Sustainability Connect 2024, a look at how MIT is decarbonizing its campus

Investigating and preserving Quechua

HOLLOW TREE | GROWING UP AT THE END OF THE EARTH

How to Design a Revolution Book Launch event

The MIT Press announces Grant Program for Diverse Voices recipients for 2024

From Ocean Waves to Sound Waves

MIT 24-Hour Challenge

3 Questions: Why study theater in a German language class?

Illustrating India’s complex environmental crises

Reflecting on COP28 — and humanity’s progress toward meeting global climate goals

MIT SHASS: News-2023-MIT-SHASS-and-De-Florez-Fund-welcome-Drew-Lynch

Projects investigating Swahili, global media win SHASS Humanities Awards

Opening the doorway to drawing

Unlocking history with geology and genetics

Baran Mensah: Savoring college life in a new country

Blueprint Labs launches a charter school research collaborative

The art of being FLI

Turning history of science into a comic adventure

3 Questions: A new home for music at MIT

MIT SHASS: Shining a spotlight on local science journalism

The creative future of generative AI

Building technology that empowers city residents

A tale of penguins and prejudice is a parable of modern America

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT SHASS: MIT SHASS Most Read Articles of 2023

Hearing Amazônia: MIT musicians in Manaus, Brazil

MIT SHASS: Empowering the next generation of philosophers through diversity and inclusion

Two from MIT named 2024 Marshall Scholars

When rumors take flight

MIT SHASS: Q&A: HASTS PhD candidate Steven Gonzalez on his new book, “Sordidez”

Long Division: The Persistence of Race Science

A voyage through history

Q&A: A high-tech take on Wagner’s “Parsifal” opera

MIT SHASS: 2022 Levitan Prize Funds Studies on Early Language Acquisition

MIT SHASS: MIT economist Stephen Morris elected to the British Academy

MIT SHASS: Through documentary filmmaking, science writing graduate students build storytelling skills

MIT SHASS: The philosophical side of cinema

3 Questions: Justin Reich on the state of teacher speech in America

Music Tech at the Voxel Lab

Q&A: A conversation with Helen Elaine Lee about her novel, “Pomegranate”

MIT SHASS: Keeril Makan named Associate Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

MIT SHASS: 101 MIT Class of 2023 students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Society

MIT SHASS: News - 2023 - Diversity Predoctoral Fellowships - Reflection

Author of “Queeristan” Spreads Vision of Inclusion

Andreas Karatsolis - 2023 Teaching with Digital Technology Award Winner

Study: Microtargeting works, just not the way people think

America Will Be

MIT SHASS: On a mission to uplift others and save Marma

MIT SHASS: News - 2023 - Social Lives of Medical Objects - Anthropology - Class Profile

Ways of seeing

Breaking down barriers in music research

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Advanced Degree Ceremony webcast | Commencement

MIT SHASS: News - 2023 - Advanced Degree Ceremony - Photo Gallery

MIT SHASS: News - Senior Spotlight - 2023

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Advanced Degree Ceremony webcast with ASL | Commencement

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Advanced Degree Ceremony webcast | Commencement

“In everything I do, I’m a creator”

Stand Up Comedy Live!

3 Questions: Per Urlaub on MIT Global Languages

How a new sound hit center stage

Encouraging a scientific habit of the mind

Benjamin Mangrum receives the 2023 Levitan Prize in the Humanities

Using language skills to bridge gaps in health care

MIT SHASS: News - 2023 - How young children communicate could reveal fundamental truths about the nature of conversation

MIT SHASS: Inside the School - Honors and Awards - SHASS Levitan Teaching Awards

New African and African diaspora studies major takes off at MIT

MIT 24-Hour Challenge

MIT SHASS: News - 2023 - Muh Award - Announcement

Matthew Kearney: Bringing AI and philosophy into dialogue

MIT SHASS: Inside the School - Resources - Internal - De Florez Fund

3 Questions: The power of music in advancing social justice

MIT SHASS: Inside the School - Resources - Internal - De Florez Fund

Four Talks on Indigenous Studies: Sonya Atalay