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</a><strong>Highlights from Said and Done </strong>| May 2011 Edition <br />
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QUOTABLE<br />
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"There is little you can do that would be a surer path to leaping <br />
dramatically forward in your career than doing a humanities PhD." <br />
—<em> Damon Horowitz, Director of Engineering for Google </em><br />
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KUDOS<br />
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<strong>Muriel Rambeloarison and Xinzhu Wang win inaugural Isabelle de Courtivron Prizes <br />
</strong>With this award, the Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies salutes cross-cultural fluency—an ability key to leadership and success in today's global world. <br />
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<strong>2011 Levitan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Announced</strong><br />
Dean Fitzgerald has announced the eight 2011 recipients of the James A. and Ruth Levitan Award for Excellence in Teaching, saying, "These educators and colleagues represent the very best academic leadership in the School." <br />
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<strong>John Harbison wins the American Music Center's Founder Award </strong><br />
Institute Professor John Harbison has received the American Music Center’s prestigious Founders Award, given since 1999 for lifetime achievement in the field of new American music. Previous winners of the award have included Charles Ives, Count Basie, and Philip Glass. <br />
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<strong>Economist Esther Duflo named to the 2011 TIME 100 </strong><br />
"Over 1 billion people live on less than $1.25 a day. Amazingly, very little is known about how they make economic choices and what might help ease their lives. MIT Economist Esther Duflo is changing that."<br />
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NEWS AND FEATURES<br />
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<strong>Robert Kanigel's <em>On An Irish Island</em></strong> | thinking about the pace of modern life <br />
An award-winning science writer and author of the acclaimed biography <em>The Man Who Knew Infinity</em>, Robert Kanigel has spent his career exploring the evolution of society through a series of unique lenses that reveal what we have gained from modernity—and what we have lost. A windswept island village off the coast of Ireland, is the setting for his forthcoming book. <br />
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RESEARCH<br />
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<strong>Research Portfolio </strong><br />
Research is the engine for the School's capacity to help meet the world's great challenges. To name just a few areas of impact, the School's research helps alleviate poverty, safeguard elections, improve health policy, articulate morality, steer economies, plan space policy, understand the past and present, assess the impact of new technologies, analyze human language, illuminate the U.S. Constitution, and create new forms at the juncture of art and science. <br />
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<strong>A champion of Creole<br />
</strong> Linguist Michel DeGraff is on a quest to give Haitian Creole its due as a respected language—and to help Haitian schoolchildren learn in their native tongue. <br />
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<strong>Bookshelf <br />
</strong> The research of MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences appears principally in the form of books and publications, as well as music and theater productions. These gems of the School provide new knowledge and analysis, innovation and insight, guidance for policy, and nourishment for lives. <br />
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS<br />
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<strong>145th MIT Commencement Exercises</strong> | Friday, June 3, 2011<br />
Graduation week at MIT is always spectacular, and 2011 is a very special year because it is MIT's 150th anniversary. Commencement weekend will close 150 days of academic and service programs, performances, exhibits, and special events to celebrate the past and envision the future of MIT. <br />
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<strong>Ideas Matter Series</strong> | Debate on Immigrants and the Right to Stay <br />
Ideas Matter, a joint project of the School's Political Science Department and the <em>Boston Review</em>, is a lecture series that brings <em>Boston Review</em> writers together with academics, expert, and practitioners for substantive debate on the challenges of our times. In this discussion, moderated by MIT Professor of Political Science Melissa Nobles, Professor Joseph Carens argues that unauthorized immigrants who have lived in the US for a sustained period of time should be granted the right to stay. Professors Carol Swain, Mathias Risse, and Jennifer Hochschild respond. <br />
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