School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences

Familiar Problems, Cutting-Edge Context

Leaders of SHASS and the Media Lab weigh in on the social implications of AI

Expanding engineers’ horizons beyond engineering is essential to addressing the field’s gender imbalance, says sociologist Susan Silbey

A student-built letterpress in Barker Library

A new initiative from the Jameel Poverty Action Lab helps policy makers worldwide embrace the value of evidence

The nonpartisan MIT Election Data and Science Lab champions the efficiency, integrity, and transparency of the democratic process

The International Policy Lab helps faculty ideas take those last critical steps into the corridors of power

Pathways to Policy

Since 1984, the program has provided 2,100 military and civilian fellows with policy training

Five grad students on finding their own routes into the policy sphere

MIT-made online resources address Haitian education, banking reform, and global development

Inside W97, the new home for MIT’s growing theater program