[Editors] Said and Done | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences | July/August 2011

Deborah Fitzgerald hiestand at MIT.EDU
Wed Aug 10 11:10:38 EDT 2011 

[1]MIT School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
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_Highlights from Said and Done _| July/August 2011 Edition
[3]Complete Edition Online
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QUOTABLE

“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 [4]it does.”
— _Amy Finkelstein, MIT Professor of Economics_
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    4. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/july-august_11#medicaid

FEATURED PERFORMANCE

__A short performance by three MIT students that will inspire and energize
your day or evening! The MIT Chamber Music Society performing the Finale of
the Trio for Piano, Violin, and Horn by Johannes Brahms (Trio Op. 40, 1865).
[5]Watch
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    5. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/july-august_11#brahms

__RESEARCH PORTFOLIO__

Research Portfolio
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.
[6]Research Portfolio
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    6. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/july-august_11#portfolio

_Interview at Slate magazine_
_MIT economist Jonathan Gruber's ideas shape health care reform at state and
national levels_
Good  health  care—and health care delivery systems—are crucial to our
personal, national, and global well-being. _Slate_ 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.
[7]More at Said and Done
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    7. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/july-august_11#slate

_MIT economists demonstrate the health and financial benefits of Medicaid _
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.
[8]More at Said and Done
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    8. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/july-august_11#medicaid

_John Tirman explores the fate of civilians in America's wars
_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 _The Deaths of
Others_.
[9]More
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    9. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/july-august_11#tirman

_Bookshelf_
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.
[10]Take a look
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    10. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/july-august_11#bookshelf

KUDOS

_2011 Infinite Mile Awards recipients honored at luncheon_
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.
[11]More + Photogallery
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    11. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/july-august_11#infinite

NEWS AND FEATURES

_Tea with The Economist_
_The  Economist_  magazine interviews MIT Professor of Economics Abhijit
Banerjee on his transformative ideas for reducing poverty.
[12]Video interview
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    12. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/july-august_11#tea

_MIT report cites arts as essential to mission
_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.
[13]More
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    13. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/july-august_11#arts

_Award winning game, Symon, available to play_
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.
[14]More at Said and Done
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    14. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/july-august_11#symon

_School in the News _
A collection of recent news about the School's research from major US and
international publications
[15]More
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    15. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/july-august_11#school

MULTIMEDIA

_MIT Chamber Music Society plays Schubert_
MIT students and alums of the MIT Chamber Music Society play the first
movement of the String Quintet in C major by Franz Schubert.
[16]Watch

_Doing Anthropology
_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.
[17]Watch
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    16. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/july-august_11#schubert
    17. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/july-august_11#anthropology

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