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Professor Oliver Rollins Awarded the 2026 Cecil H and Ida Green Visiting Professor at Green College at the University of British Columbia

Feb 24, 2026

Cecil H and Ida Green endowed the Green visiting professors program to provide opportunities for UBC students and faculty, as well as interested members of the public, to interact with outstanding…

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Professor Robin Scheffler’s Course Featured in MIT News – Bridging Science and Society in the Emerging Bioeconomy

Feb 24, 2026

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).…

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MIT Alum Jennifer Mnookin PhD ’99 Named President of Columbia University

Feb 9, 2026

Mnookin received her PhD in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology, a doctoral program now known as HASTS. Columbia University has announced Jennifer Mnookin PhD ’99, chancellor of…

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New Article by Professor Kate Brown – My Garden Used to be a Brownfield

Dec 2, 2025

Professor Brown has published an article on Substack about how her neighbors transformed the toxic dump behind their building into a blooming garden. “I live in a crowded part of Cambridge,…

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Professor Will Deringer Wins 2025 Walter D. Love Article Prize

Nov 20, 2025

Professor Will Deringer article, “Mr. Aecroid’s Tables: Economic Calculations and Social Customs in the Early Modern Countryside,” has won the 2025 Walter D. Love Prize from the North American Conference on…

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Professor Kate Brown’s MITHIC Course Featured in MIT News – Returning Farming to City Centers

Nov 20, 2025

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…

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Professor Jen Light’s New Class Featured by MIT Division of Student Life – “Stretching Minds and Bodies: MIT Students Learn Why Exercise is Medicine”

Oct 14, 2025

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…

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David Kaiser in MIT News – Could a Primordial Black Hole’s Last Burst Explain a Mysteriously Energetic Neutrino?

Sep 18, 2025

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…
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