http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/humanities.html Humanities headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office. en-us http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www/mitlogo-rss.jpg http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/humanities.html 88 31 Wed, 7 May 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/china-forum-tt0507.html MIT will kick off a new monthly lecture series on China with a May 14 talk by Yingyi Qian, dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University and professor of economics at UC Berkeley. Qian will speak about China's economic transformation. Wed, 7 May 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/china-forum-tt0507.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/dean-fitzgerald-0415.html An interview with Dean Deb Fitzgerald, dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, in which Fitzgerald discusses SHASS's impact on the international-education aspect of MIT and the school's future. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/dean-fitzgerald-0415.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/guggenheim-0411.html Three MIT professors were named Guggenheim fellows for their "stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment," the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced this month. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/guggenheim-0411.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/eureka-ezpass-tt0409.html Eighteen months of road trips between Boston and New York and one Eureka moment inspired MIT economist Amy Finkelstein to study the hidden cost of E-ZPass, the popular electronic toll collection system that eliminates the frustration of manual tolls. Wed, 9 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/eureka-ezpass-tt0409.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/dower-tt0409.html John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, teased out the threads connecting cultures of war from individual nations' densely woven rhetoric about victory in his Killian award lecture, presented Monday, April 7, at MIT. Wed, 9 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/dower-tt0409.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/diaz-pulitzer-0407.html MIT professor Junot Diaz' acclaimed debut novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," enjoyed another wondrous round of literary praise today, winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction just one month after receiving the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/diaz-pulitzer-0407.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/macaulay-tt0319.html David Macaulay, the acclaimed illustrator and author whose books, especially "The Way Things Work," animate the overlap between art and engineering, will discuss how he works in a free public lecture on April 1 at MIT. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/macaulay-tt0319.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/rx-crisis-plan-0317.html The mounting U.S. drug price crisis can be contained and eventually reversed by separating drug discovery from drug marketing and by establishing a non-profit company to oversee funding for new medicines, according to two MIT experts. Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/rx-crisis-plan-0317.html