MIT’s Program in STS is pleased to announce it has awarded the 2025-2026 L. Dennis Shapiro (1955) Graduate Fellowship in the History of African American Experience of Technology to C Jacob…
Professor Oliver Rollins has published a new essay in the Legacies of Eugenics series in the LA Review of Books. It explores recent developments in the “new…
Usha Lee McFarling named director of the Knight Science Journalism Program
McFarling, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and national science correspondent for STAT, was a 1992-93 Knight Science Journalism Fellow.
The Knight Science…
The Program in STS is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the L. Dennis Shapiro (1955) Graduate Fellowship in the History of African American Experience of Technology. All MIT…
Professor David Kaiser has published an article in Physics Today. Marking the hundredth anniversary of quantum mechanics, he writes about a group of maverick physicists who studied the foundations of quantum…
What happens when brain science enters the courtroom? And how do we make sense of new technologies that claim to detect, or even predict, criminal intent or mental state? In…
The winner of the 2025 MIT Press Faculty Book Award is “The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines” (2023), by David Autor, the Ford…
Beneath the biotech boom
Peter Dizikes | MIT News
Publication Date: April 16, 2025
Photo Credits: Emily Dahl; MIT News
MIT historian of science Robin Scheffler looks at the public discussions…