Senior Omar Orozco wants to use storytelling and the arts to help educate the next generation of computer scientists, mathematicians, and engineers.

Senior Audrey Lorvo is researching AI safety, which seeks to ensure increasingly intelligent AI models are reliable and can benefit humanity. The growing field focuses on technical challenges like robustness and AI alignment with human values, as well as societal concerns like transparency and accountability.

A new book from MIT political scientist Kathleen Thelen, “Attention, Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy,” examines the political dynamics behind the huge U.S. retail economy. “The markets that we take as given, that we think of as the natural outcome of supply and demand, are heavily shaped by policy and by politics,” she says.

“My argument is that this physical object adds up to more than the sum of its parts, through its creative interplay of text, image, and materials,” MIT Literature professor Arthur Bahr says. His book, “Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight,” explores the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound volume from the 1300s containing the earliest versions of the masterly medieval poem “Pearl,” the famous tale “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” and two other poems.

MIT Music presents the Radius Ensemble on Thursday, April 24 at 8 p.m. in the Joyce and Edward Linde Building’s Tull Concert Hall. The Ensemble presents works from MIT composers steeped in classical tradition and offered in new and exciting forms for modern audiences.

The Center for International Studies presents “Truth in Crisis: Navigating the Intersections of Scientific Discourse and Misinformation” on Monday, April 28 at 12 p.m. in Building E40-496. Scholars and experts from a variety of disciplines will discuss the challenges misinformation poses to science.