[Editors] Said and Done | From the Dean's Office

[Emily Hiestand]

Dear All,

Greetings.  Here’s  the  current edition of Said and Done, the monthly
communications digest from MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social
Sciences. For the complete review and photographs, visit [1]Said and Done.
  Links:
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Highlights include:

RESEARCH PORTFOLIO





_Who needs to understand science? _




In a word, Everyone, and science journalists play a major role in the public
understanding of science. In the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships
program, outstanding journalists from around the globe hone their skills and
perspectives for this work. 




[2]Learn more
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_Bookshelf_ | Spring 2010 Edition 




New  knowledge  and analysis, guidance for policy, and nourishment for
lives

__[3]Take a look
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NEWS
_All or Nothing


_
MIT experts on the future of health-care reform: Congress should still think
big. 



[4]by Peter Dizikes at MIT News
  Links:
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_Haldeman receives science fiction community's highest honor_
Joe Haldeman, Adjunct Professor in the School's Program in Writing and
Humanistic Studies, has received the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master
Award.
[5]Full story
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MULTIMEDIA







_Robert Solow on the economic crisis — and how we can recover



_
Nobel  Prize-winning economist and MIT Professor Emeritus Robert Solow
explains why a stateside housing slump turned into a global economic crisis,
and how we can recover.
[6]Watch
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_On PBS: Professor of Music Ellen Harris on Handel's Messiah


_
When  18th  century composer George Frideric Handel wrote his timeless
"Messiah" oratorio, he not only penned a classic holiday composition, he
established a foundation for a new business approach to opera. Paul Solman
reports, and interviews Professor of Music Ellen Harris, who sings one of
her responses. 


[7]Watch
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PROFILES
_Andrea Wirth_ | Administrative Assistant, Foreign Languages and Literatures
“I love my job," Wirth says, "I work with some of the most creative people
on campus." Off campus, the creativity continues: for 20 years, Wirth has
donned a Revolutionary War musician’s uniform and marched in a 45-member
Fife and Drum Corps.
[8]More
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[9]Said and Done
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Emily Hiestand
Communication Director
Office of the Dean
MIT School of Humanities,
Arts and Social Sciences
617-324-2043, MIT
617-308-4770, Mobile

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