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3 Questions: Chappell Lawson on U.S. security policy

The year 2020 has featured an array of safety and security concerns for ordinary Americans, including disease and natural disasters. How can the U.S. government best protect its citizens? That is the focus of a new scholarly book with practical aims, “Beyond 9/11: Homeland Security for the Twenty-First Century,” published by the MIT Press. The […]

CS+HASS SuperUROP debuts with nine research projects

Trade policy, government transparency, and music composition systems were among the humanities, arts, and social science (HASS) research areas explored this year by students in MIT’s Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, better known as the SuperUROP. These and similar HASS-related research projects materialized because the SuperUROP — which launched in 2012 in the Department of […]

Outstanding MIT students of French explore “Paris et la rue”

Think of Paris, and images materialize of sublime art and cosmopolitan sophistication. “We all romanticize the culture, and it’s fine to do that,” says Bruno Perreau, the Cynthia L. Reed Professor and associate professor of French studies. “But we also need to add different layers and rethink the connection between myth and reality,” he says. […]

Contest seeks writing about bicultural experiences

The Isabelle de Courtivron Writing Prize is seeking student writing submissions (creative or expository) about immigrant, diaspora, bicultural, bilingual, and/or mixed-race experiences. The prize was established to honor distinguished Professor Emerita Isabelle de Courtivron, who dedicated her career at MIT to the study of bicultural and bilingual creative expression. The annual prize competition is open to all MIT […]

At home and abroad with MISTI 2020

“My hopes that the internship would be possible were dashed,” rising sophomore Nieky Wang reflects about the impact Covid-19 had on her plans to take part in MIT-India this summer. “I wasn’t sure if I would be personally comfortable with traveling abroad during a pandemic, even if it was allowed by MIT.” Wang is one […]