[Editors] Said and Done | MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences | March 2011

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_Highlights from Said and Done_ | March 2011 Edition
[2]Complete Edition Online
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    1. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/march_11
    2. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/march_11

KUDOS

_Amanda Mok ’11 wins 2011 MITSO Concerto Competition
_Mok, a double major in Music and Biological Engineering, is the 2011 winner
of the MIT Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. She will perform the
first movement of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 with MITSO, on March 11,
2011.
[3]Q & A with Amanda Mok at Said and Done
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    3. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/march_11#mok

RESEARCH PORTFOLIO

_Ask a Linguist | Q&A with David Pesetsky
_David  Pesetsky,  Ferrari  P.  Ward  Professor of Modern Languages and
Linguistics, was recently named a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. He is the author of two groundbreaking books on
syntactic theory as well as numerous articles that have contributed to the
understanding of Universal Grammar.
[4]Q&A at Said and Done
  Links:
    4. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/march_11#pesetsky

_New knowledge from Martin Hackl's Experimental Syntax and Semantics Lab _
Some of the subtleties of language can be challenging to explain using
traditional  linguistic  analysis.  Associate Professor Martin Hackl’s
experimental approach is expanding the field of linguistics.
[5]Research brief at Said and Done
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    5. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/march_11#hackl

_Smithsonian and MIT/CMS to launch "Vanished", an online mystery game_
The Smithsonian Institution and MIT's Comparative Media Studies program have
announced the April 4, 2011 launch of _vanished_, an 8-week environmental
mystery game for middle-school children, designed to inspire problem-solving
and collaboration through science.
[6]Game details at Said and Done
  Links:
    6. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/march_11#vanished

_Communications in slow-moving crises_
“Things are happening much faster and much slower,” says historian Rosalind
Williams, because the “density of human presence on the planet speeds up
environmental  change  and  slows  down  political change,” creating a
“viscosity” that makes history “work differently.” A panel moderated by
Prof. Tom Levenson, Head, Writing and Humanistic Studies, and Director of
the Graduate Program in Science Writing.
[7]Watch video
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    7. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/march_11#communications

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

_Saturday, March 5, 2011
MIT + 150 Event | FAST Thinking | _Music and Neuroscience
A 12-hour boundary-busting event that demonstrates the outcome of pioneering
research on music, language, vision and neuroscience. Concert by London's
famed Lontano Ensemble, featuring works by MIT Faculty composers, including
world premieres by Charles Shadle and Peter Child, and works by Elena Reuhr,
Evan Ziporyn, and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Harbison, as well as Fred
Lerdahl of Columbia University.
[8]All events + schedule
  Links:
    8. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/march_11#fast

_Thursday, March 17
MIT + 150 Event | Washed by Fire | The Music of Keeril Makan _
Performed by the Either/Or Ensemble. For more than a decade, MIT’s Keeril
Makan has been creating hard-driving, visceral music that is blended with a
quiet  beauty,  offering  what Newsday calls “a fascinating wedding of
intellect and expressivity.”
[9]Full information
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    9. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/march_11#makan

NEWS AND FEATURES

_Palitz Fellowship Announced_ | Apply by March 11, 2011
A new undergraduate travel fellowship for the study of Dutch art and culture
in The Hague, Netherlands. A six-month term as an MIT Palitz Fellow: Spring
semester in preparation with a faculty supervisor, followed by three months
in The Hague, Netherlands for a program of summer research in and around the
Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis.
[10]Discover the Hague
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    10. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/march_11#palitz

MULTIMEDIA

_The Evolution of Economic Science _
As part of the MIT+150 Economics Symposium held in January 2011, Mitsui
Professor  of  Economics,  James  Poterba  moderates a panel of fellow
distinguished economists to reflect on MIT's unique contributions to the
field, and MIT's role as a place of research, teaching, and influence in the
larger world.
[11]Watch
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    11. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/march_11#economics

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