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"We’re seeing a wave of new technologies in energy, biotechnology, batteries,
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<span class="quote">— <em>Suzanne Berger, MIT Professor of Political Science,</em></span>
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<span class="quote"><em>on American companies bringing industrial processes back to America </em></span>
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MULTIMEDIA
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James Howe, MIT Professor of Anthropology, has spent more than forty years working and collaborating with the Kuna, an indigenous people of Panama. In this audio slide show, Howe tells the story of how a Kuna village prepares for and conducts a great communal celebration, an event that can last up to four days, and embodies the Kuna's important values, beliefs, and ways of life.
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NEWS AND FEATURES
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<strong>Does America need manufacturing?</strong>
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For several decades, many American companies found that "offshoring" their industrial work could raise profits. But now the situation has changed. In a NYT's article, MIT Professor of Political Science Suzanne Berger says "We’re seeing a wave of new technologies in energy, biotechnology, batteries, where there has to be a closer integration between research, development, design, product definition and production.”
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<strong>Wheaton proposes a mortgage fix for U.S. lenders and homeowners: shared equity</strong>
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Bill Wheaton, MIT Professor of Economics, and Kenneth Rogoff, of Harvard University, suggest that the "government facilitate mortgage write-downs in exchange for claims on a percentage of future appreciation–potentially making it a win not only for homeowners who owe more on their homes than their properties are worth, but also a win for lenders and investors who would eventually be repaid for giving borrowers a break."
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RESEARCH PORTFOLIO
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<strong>Meeting the world's great challenges</strong>
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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.
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<strong>Lépinay book gives an insider view of investment banking </strong>
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In <em>Codes of Finance</em>, Vincent Lépinay, MIT Assistant Professor in Science, Technology and Society, gives an insider account of investment banking, and the high-risk trades that can spin out of control. A call for reshaping financial innovation. “It’s an excellent book,” says William Maurer, chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California at Irvine. “There are few people who’ve had the kind of access he was able to secure, at the moment of formation of a financial instrument that was central to the meltdown in 2008.”
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<strong>Bookshelf</strong>
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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.
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COMMUNITY
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<strong>New Faculty</strong>
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The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences is pleased to present the newest members of the faculty. A warm welcome to these superb scholars: Sasha Costanza-Chock, CMS; Lerna Ekmekcioglu, History; Hiromu Nagahara, History; Lucas Stanczyk, Political Science; Teppei Yamamoto, Political Science
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<strong>Mellon Fellows for 2011-2013</strong>
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With the generous support of the Mellon Foundation, the School awards two fellowships each year to promising young scholars working at the intersection of humanities disciplines, or between humanities and other disciplines. We are delighted to welcome two new Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows for 2011-2013—Hye Jean Chung and Gretchen Henderson—and to welcome back the Mellon Fellows for 2010-2012, Chuong-Dai Vo and Amaranth Borsuk.
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<strong>Ugandan human rights journalist joins the Center for International Studies</strong>
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Jackee Budesta Batanda, a Ugandan human rights journalist who has reported on the vicious acid attacks of women as "revenge crimes" and the targeted murders of albinos, has been selected as the 2011-2012 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow. The award is offered through the International Women's Media Foundation and is sponsored in part by the Center for International Studies at MIT.
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
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<strong>MIT Political Science Distinguished Speaker Series</strong>
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Thursday, September 15, 3pm | Wong Auditorium (E51-115) | Co-hosted by Political Science Department and the Production in the Innovative Economy (PIE) group. Several leading MIT faculty will review a series of manufacturing topics, after which Ron Bloom, former Senior Counselor to the President, will speak. Nobel laureate and MIT economist Robert Solow will lead a short closing discussion.
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<strong>Chomsky talk launches year two of the <em>Ideas Matter Forum</em> Series</strong>
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September 22, 4:30-6pm, MIT Tang Center
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Noam Chomsky will discuss “The Responsibility of Intellectuals,” revisiting the controversial topic he first addressed in 1967. The Ideas Matter lecture series is a joint project of Boston Review and the MIT Political Science Department.
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<strong>Robert A. Muh Alumni Award Lecture in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences</strong>
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Wednesday, October 26, 5pm | Public lecture followed by public reception | Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Building E15
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Dr. Joseph E. Aoun, PhD ' 82 Linguistics, and President, Northeastern University has received the 2011 Muh Alumni Award, and will give a lecture entitled "The Future of American Higher Education in the Global Knowledge Marketplace."
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MULTIMEDIA
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<strong>Video: The Perfect Oyster </strong>
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A great short piece about restoring natural oyster reefs in coastal waters—and why that matters for healthy oceans. Produced by talented students in the School's Graduate Program in Science Writing.
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