<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Said and Done | From the Dean's Office</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
height: 69px;
font:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
img {
padding-top:25px;
padding-bottom:30px;
}
a {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #990000;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline !important;
color: #990000;
}
.style1 {color: #990000}
.style2 {color: #656565}
.style3 {color: #e13a12}
.style4 {color: #e18e1d}
.sig {
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
color: #656565;
}
.tagline {
padding-top:0px;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
.bar {
padding-left:5px;
}
p {
padding-top: 30px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=8cd5c97e3a&e=21b763b83d" title="" class="style1" target="_blank"><img src="http://web.mit.edu/shass/inside/eannouncement/img/banner.gif" width="525" height="69" alt="MIT School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences" border="0" /></a><br />
<a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=fb2157662a&e=21b763b83d" title="" class="style1" target="_blank"> <img src="http://shass.mit.edu/files/shass/cimg/news/2010/400-pears-bulb.jpg" border="0" /><br />
<br />
</a>The February 2011 edition of <a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=62110313a3&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank" class="style1">Said and Done</a> is now online. <br />
Here are a few highlights: <br />
<br /><br />
KUDOS<br />
<br />
<strong>Pesetsky elected a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science<br />
</strong>David Pesetsky, Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics, was chosen for “his innovative and critical research on syntactic theory, connecting it to issues in phonology, morphology, reading, language acquisition and neuroscience, and for his contributions to linguistic education at many levels.” <br />
<a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=2bba1cdb9d&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank">More at Said and Done</a><br />
<br />
<strong>Bartusiak Awarded the Davis Prize </strong><br />
The History of Science Society has awarded the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize to Marcia Bartusiak for The Day We Found the Universe, calling it "a beautifully written, informative book on a critical topic in the history of science" and a "rich, complex, yet crystal-clear narrative" that depicts a seminal moment in history. <br />
<a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=3a85c6eaca&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank">More at Said and Done</a><br />
<img src="http://shass.mit.edu/files/shass/cimg/magazine/2011/02/180_universe-1.jpg" width="180" height="180" /><br />
<br />
<br />
FORTHCOMING EVENTS<br />
<strong><br />
</strong><strong>FAST | Festival of Arts + Technology + Science<br />
</strong>The School's renowned music and theater sections are producing major events for FAST: Festival of Art + Technology + Science—a five-month series celebrating MIT's distinctive culture of creativity and invention. This month "Hydriotaphia," a play by Tony Kushner, directed by Janet Sonenberg; and the Handel & Hayden Society's performance of Handel's "Israel in Egypt." <br />
<a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=573344f391&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank" class="style1">Full listings at Said and Done</a> <br />
<br />
</a><strong>Fuller to lead NEH Summer Seminar at MIT </strong><br />
"English Encounters with the Americas, 1550-1610" is an NEH seminar for college professors to be held July 5-29, 2011 at MIT. Led by Mary Fuller, Professor of Literature, sixteen selected seminar participants will explore primary sources on Anglo-American contact using evidence and methods from several disciplines. <strong><br />
</strong><a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=89a9c942fd&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank" class="style1">More at Said and Done</a><br />
<img src="http://shass.mit.edu/files/shass/cimg/news/2011/180_handel-1.jpg" /> <img src="http://shass.mit.edu/files/shass/cimg/news/2011/180_arts-at-mit.jpg" class="bar" /> <img src="http://shass.mit.edu/files/shass/cimg/magazine/2011/02/180_space-person.jpg" class="bar" /> <br />
<br />
<br />
RESEARCH PORTFOLIO<br />
<br />
<strong>Is new media technology making us <em>Alone Together</em>? </strong><br />
“There is a real state of confusion about whether or not we have each other’s attention in our always-on connectivity culture,” says Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, in her new book. <strong><br />
</strong><a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=5adfbe3569&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank" class="style1">More at Said and Done</a><br />
<br />
<strong>Tracing families’ escape from poverty </strong><br />
Economist Robert Townsend's research shows how the poor in developing countries become wealthier. <strong><br />
</strong><a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=789775adfe&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank" class="style1">Story by Peter Dizikes</a><br />
<br />
<strong>Bookshelf </strong><br />
These gems of the School provide new knowledge and analysis, innovation and insight, guidance for policy, and nourishment for lives. <strong><br />
</strong><a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=2bd80894b6&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank" class="style1">Take a look</a><br />
<img src="http://shass.mit.edu/files/shass/cimg/news/2011/180_book-3.jpg" /> <img src="http://shass.mit.edu/files/shass/cimg/magazine/2011/02/180_alone-together-cover.jpg" /><br />
<br />
<br />
NEWS AND FEATURES<br />
<br />
<strong>Economists converge at MIT for major symposium </strong><br />
An array of stars in economics and finance, including seven Nobel Prize winners, prominent policymakers and influential public intellectuals, convened for “Economics and Finance: from Theory to Practice to Policy” — one of six academic symposia taking place to celebrate MIT’s 150th anniversary. <strong><br />
</strong><a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=8dd3c4880b&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank" class="style1">Videos of all sessions + story</a><br />
<br />
<strong><em>Opera News</em> calls Ziporyn's new opera "colossally imaginative" </strong><br />
"Ziporyn's West-meets-East adventure is a grand kaleidoscopic success that no one else could have dreamed up." — <em>Opera News</em><br /><a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=6098580111&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank" class="style1">More at Said and Done</a><br />
<br />
<br />
</a>MULTIMEDIA<br />
<br />
<strong> Paul Farmer on the path to real recovery in Haiti</strong><br />
Difficult as it is to look beyond the acute misery of Haiti’s current crisis, physician/anthropologist Paul Farmer proposes a focus on the nation’s “chronic problems.” There’s no shortage of recovery ideas, he says, but these will go nowhere if they do not also advance the long-neglected, basic rights of Haitians.<strong><br />
</strong><a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=296e7e6788&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank" class="style1">Video at Said and Done
</a><br />
<br />
<img src="http://shass.mit.edu/files/shass/180_farmer-child.jpg" /> <br />
<br />
<br />
STAY IN TOUCH
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=e8a9a61b3f&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank" class="style1">Calendar</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=76fcc3aff0&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank" class="style1">Facebook<br />
</a> <br />
<a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=8cde56d301&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank" class="style1">Twitter</a><br />
<br />
Subscribe | <a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=4b24e926ad&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank" class="style1">RSS News</a> | <a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=9cd94ce680&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank" class="style1">RSS Multimedia</a>
<p><a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=7506f34f33&e=21b763b83d" title="" class="style1" target="_blank">Said and Done</a> | Digest for February 2011<br />
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences<br />
</p>
<p class="sig">Emily Hiestand<br />
Communication Director <br />
Office of the Dean <br />
MIT School of Humanities, <br />
Arts and Social Sciences <br />
617-324-2043 <br /><br /></p>
<p class="tagline"><a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=f4f65ecfde&e=21b763b83d" target="_blank"><span class="style3">great ideas</span> <span class="style4">change the world</span></a></p>
<br />
<center><table width="600" style="clear:both;margin:20px 0px !important;padding:0px !important;border:1px solid #ddd !important;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr>
<td align="center" style="padding:10px !important;margin:0px !important;color:#505050 !important;background:#fdfdfd !important;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Sans !important;font-size:11px !important;font-weight:normal !important;font-style:normal !important;text-decoration:none !important;vertical-align:middle !important;text-align:left !important;">
Sent to editors@mit.edu: <a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=d5bbe51b53&e=21b763b83d&c=340c1c70ff" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Sans !important;font-size:11px !important;font-weight:normal !important;font-style:normal !important;text-decoration:none !important;color:#990000 !important;">unsubscribe</a> |
<a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/profile?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=d5bbe51b53&e=21b763b83d" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Sans !important;font-size:11px !important;font-weight:normal !important;font-style:normal !important;text-decoration:none !important;color:#990000 !important;">update profile</a> |
<a href="http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=340c1c70ff&e=21b763b83d" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Sans !important;font-size:11px !important;font-weight:normal !important;font-style:normal !important;text-decoration:none !important;color:#990000 !important;">forward to a friend</a>
</td>
</tr></table></center><img src="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=340c1c70ff&e=21b763b83d" height="1" width="1"></body>
</html>