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MIT PhD student Alvin Harvey presented the findings of course 21H.283 (The Indigenous History of MIT) to the MIT Faculty Council. MIT also announced an expanded commitment to research on Native American history and support for the Indigenous community at the Institute.
Leo Marx, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Cultural History, emeritus at MIT, died at 102. Marx created a new lens for American history studies, wrote the pioneering book "The Machine in the Garden," and was a leader in bringing the humanities into a central academic role at MIT.
Rachel Becker is a reporter with a background in scientific research. After studying the links between the brain and the immune system, Rachel left the lab bench with her master's degree to become a journalist via the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing. For nearly three years, Rachel was a staff science reporter at The Verge, where she wrote stories and hosted videos covering a range of beats including climate change, nicotine, and nuclear technology. Her byline has also appeared in NOVA Next, National Geographic News, Smithsonian, Slate, Nature, Nature Medicine, bioGraphic, and Haka...
A Princeton workshop is helping faculty tell the full story of who does science by including overlooked women and scientists of color in reading lists and lecture materials.
MIT faculty members Dwai Banerjee, Tristan Brown, Eric Goldberg, Nick Montfort, Tanalís Padilla, and Ken Urban received awards from the MIT SHASS Research Fund for 2022. The fund supports research in the Institute's humanities, arts, and social science fields that shows promise of making an important contribution to the proposed area of activity.