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,…
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…
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…
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…