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</a><strong>Highlights from Said and Done </strong>| July/August 2011 Edition <br />
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“There has been a lot of genuine uncertainty about whether it makes a difference when you give people Medicaid. The short answer from our study is that <a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=970b0c99a2&e=21b763b83d" title="" class="style1" target="_blank">it does</a>.” <br />
— <em>Amy Finkelstein, MIT Professor of Economics</em><br>
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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, steer economies, understand the past and present, improve health policy, articulate morality, plan space policy, assess the impact of new technologies, understand human language, advance musicology, and create new forms at the juncture of art and science.<br />
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<strong>Interview at <em>Slate</em> magazine</strong><br />
<strong>MIT economist Jonathan Gruber's ideas shape health care reform at state and national levels</strong><br />
Good health care—and health care delivery systems—are crucial to our personal, national, and global well-being. <em>Slate</em> magazine interviews MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber, one of the world's leading health economists, whose ideas animate both the US and Massachusetts health care models.<br />
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<strong>MIT economists demonstrate the health and financial benefits of Medicaid </strong><br />
Landmark study shows the effects of health insurance program: better health and fewer financial shocks for the poor, more bills paid for hospitals and doctors. Professors of Economics Amy Finkelstein (a principal investigator) and Jonathan Gruber contributed to the study. <br>
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<strong>John Tirman explores the fate of civilians in America's wars<br>
</strong> Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle, and rightly so. But why, Tirman asks, are we often oblivious to the far greater number of casualties suffered by those we fight and those we fight for? Tirman is a principal research scientist and executive director at the MIT Center for International Studies. His new book is <em>The Deaths of Others</em>. <br>
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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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<strong>2011 Infinite Mile Awards recipients honored at luncheon</strong><br />
Congratulations to Jacqueline Breen, Literature; Margo Collett, History; Mabel Chin, History; Andrew Dorner, Economics; Kristen Ferry, Foreign Languages and Literatures; Richard Eberhardt, Comparative Media Studies; Harlene Miller, Center for International Studies; Peter Weise, German Lecturer in Foreign Languages and Literatures; and Marc Shotland, Research Associate in JPAL.
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<strong>Tea with The Economist</strong><br />
<em>The Economist</em> magazine interviews MIT Professor of Economics Abhijit Banerjee on his transformative ideas for reducing poverty. <br />
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<strong>MIT report cites arts as essential to mission <br />
</strong> Rooted in experimentation, risk-taking and imaginative problem-solving, the arts at MIT connect creative minds across disciplines and encourage a lifetime of exploration and self-discovery. Artistic knowledge and creation strengthen MIT’s ability to realize the aesthetic, human, and social dimensions of research and innovation, and to meet the challenges of the 21st century. <br />
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<strong>Award winning game, Symon, available to play</strong><br>
Developed by the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, Symon, the Best Browser Game from the 2010 Indie Game Challenge, has been updated with new features and is now free to play at Kongregate. <br>
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A collection of recent news about the School's research from major US and international publications <br>
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<strong>MIT Chamber Music Society plays Schubert</strong><br>
MIT students and alums of the MIT Chamber Music Society play the first movement of the String Quintet in C major by Franz Schubert. <br />
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<strong>Doing Anthropology<br>
</strong> Cultural anthropology is a social science that explores how people understand, and act in, the world. But what, exactly, do cultural anthropologists do? How do they approach their research? In this short film, three members of the School's Anthropology section, Stefan Helmreich, Erica James, and Heather Paxson, talk about their current fieldwork.<br>
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