Alan Lightman On The Tension (And Commonalities) Between Science And Religion
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March 29, 2018
By Alison Bruzek and Meghna Chakrabarti
Alan Lightman’s new book looks at why…
How Kendall Square Became The Epicenter Of The Biotech World
June 05, 2018
By Meghna Chakrabarti and Chris Citorik
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Forty years ago, Kendall Square was surrounded by abandoned factories…
MIT Philosophy PhD candidate Marion Boulicault has been awarded the 2018 Benjamin Siegel Writing Prize from MIT STS Program. The prize committee, John Durant and Robin Scheffler, selected her paper “Gender …
The Mobile Workshop, The Tsetse Fly, and African Knowledge Production
By Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
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How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where…
A Physicist’s Farewell to Stephen Hawking
By David Kaiser
March 15, 2018
Stephen Hawking was a scientific and cultural revolutionary. He saw the cosmos as no one before him had—and…
link: http://news.mit.edu/2018/four-professors-named-2018-macvicar-fellows-0305
Four professors named 2018 MacVicar Fellows
Autor, Capozzola, Raman, and Smith receive MIT’s most prestigious undergraduate teaching award.
Alison Trachy | Registrar’s Office
March 5, 2018
This Friday, the…
When numbers started counting
New book by MIT assistant professor chronicles the birth of statistical arguments in public debate.
Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office | February 5, 2018
Odds are,…
Assistant Professor Robin Wolfe Scheffler of MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) has been awarded the 2018 James A. (1945) and Ruth Levitan Prize in the Humanities, a $30,000…