<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 25); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12px;" class=""><i class=""><b class="">FROM JEN LIGHT:</b></i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.699999809265137px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.699999809265137px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Dear STS Community,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.699999809265137px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.699999809265137px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The STS Program is thrilled to announce the creation of the L. Dennis Shapiro (1955) Graduate Fellowship in the History of African American Experience of Technology, thanks to a generous gift from MIT alum Dennis Shapiro. This new fellowship supports</span><span style="font-size: 14.699999809265137px; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.699999809265137px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">a Ph.D. student who is studying the history of African Americans’ engagement with technology: invention, use, engineering, cultural innovation and creativity. The fellowship also provides the selected student with a summer research stipend and research support, renewable for up to three years. It is also accompanied by a Program Fund to enable supporting activities by the STS Program. </span>​<br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.699999809265137px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Kelcey Gibbons, an MIT Ph.D. student in HASTS studying the history of black computer professionals and black technological education in the twentieth century, is the first recipient of a Shapiro Fellowship. </span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.699999809265137px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#191919" face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.699999809265137px;" class="">For more information about the new fellowship and about Dennis Shapiro, please see the longer story here: </span></font></span><font color="#191919" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.699999809265137px;" class=""><a href="https://sts-program.mit.edu/news/news-shapiro-graduate-fellowship/" class="">https://sts-program.mit.edu/news/news-shapiro-graduate-fellowship/</a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font color="#191919" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.699999809265137px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div id="Signature" class=""><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;" class=""><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div class="BodyFragment"><div class="PlainText"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Jennifer S. Light</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Department Head, Program in Science, Technology and Society</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology</span></div><div class="PlainText"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Professor of Urban Studies and Planning</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">77 Massachusetts Ave., E51-173</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Cambridge, MA 02139</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">(617) 452-2390</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="PlainText"><a href="https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/jennifer-s-light/" target="_blank" id="NoLP" class="">https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/jennifer-s-light/</a></div><div class="PlainText"><br class=""></div><div class="PlainText"><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/states-childhood" target="_blank" id="NoLP" class="">https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/states-childhood</a></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-size: 9px;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 9px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div>_______________________________________</span><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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