Class STS.059 (The Bioeconomy and Society) is taught jointly by professor of biological engineering Mark Bathe (standing, right) and associate professor of science, technology, and society Robin Wolfe Scheffler (standing, left).…
Written by Michaela Jarvis | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Publication Date: November 6, 2025
Professor Kate Brown has been featured in an article in MIT News on MIT’s…
Left to right: Students Kaidi Liu, Zaynab Eltaib, and Olivia Fiol work a plot of urban farmland at The Common Good Co-Op.
A new class is giving MIT students the opportunity…
By Sarah Foote
Exercise is Medicine class integrates physical activity and academics
We’ve known since ancient times that physical activity can prevent and treat a broad range…
Could a primordial black hole’s last burst explain a mysteriously energetic neutrino?
If a new proposal by MIT physicists bears out, the recent detection of a record-setting neutrino could be the…
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…
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…