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

Wed May 25 14:41:31 EDT 2011

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_Highlights from Said and Done _| May 2011 Edition
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QUOTABLE

"There is little you can do that would be a surer path to leaping
dramatically forward in your career than doing a humanities PhD."
—_ Damon Horowitz, Director of Engineering for Google _
[3]Story at Said and Done
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KUDOS

_Muriel Rambeloarison and Xinzhu Wang win inaugural Isabelle de Courtivron
Prizes
_With  this  award, the Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies salutes
cross-cultural fluency—an ability key to leadership and success in today's
global world.
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_2011 Levitan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Announced_
Dean Fitzgerald has announced the eight 2011 recipients of the James A. and
Ruth Levitan Award for Excellence in Teaching, saying, "These educators and
colleagues represent the very best academic leadership in the School."
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_John Harbison wins the American Music Center's Founder Award _
Institute Professor John Harbison has received the American Music Center’s
prestigious Founders Award, given since 1999 for lifetime achievement in the
field of new American music. Previous winners of the award have included
Charles Ives, Count Basie, and Philip Glass.
[6]Full story at MIT News
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_Economist Esther Duflo named to the 2011 TIME 100 _
"Over 1 billion people live on less than $1.25 a day. Amazingly, very little
is known about how they make economic choices and what might help ease their
lives. MIT Economist Esther Duflo is changing that."
[7]Full story at Time Magazine
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NEWS AND FEATURES

_Robert Kanigel's On An Irish Island_ | thinking about the pace of modern
life
An award-winning science writer and author of the acclaimed biography _The
Man Who Knew Infinity_, Robert Kanigel has spent his career exploring the
evolution of society through a series of unique lenses that reveal what we
have gained from modernity—and what we have lost. A windswept island village
off the coast of Ireland, is the setting for his forthcoming book.
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RESEARCH

_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, improve health policy,
articulate morality, steer economies, plan space policy, understand the past
and present, assess the impact of new technologies, analyze human language,
illuminate the U.S. Constitution, and create new forms at the juncture of
art and science.
[9]Research Portfolio
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_A champion of Creole
_Linguist Michel DeGraff is on a quest to give Haitian Creole its due as a
respected language—and to help Haitian schoolchildren learn in their native
tongue.
[10]Feature by Peter Dizikes at MIT News
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_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.
[11]Take a look
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

_145th MIT Commencement Exercises_ | Friday, June 3, 2011
Graduation week at MIT is always spectacular, and 2011 is a very special
year because it is MIT's 150th anniversary. Commencement weekend will close
150 days of academic and service programs, performances, exhibits, and
special events to celebrate the past and envision the future of MIT.
[12]Commencement website
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MULTIMEDIA

_Ideas Matter Series_ | Debate on Immigrants and the Right to Stay
Ideas Matter, a joint project of the School's Political Science Department
and  the  _Boston Review_, is a lecture series that brings _Boston Review_
writers together with academics, expert, and practitioners for substantive
debate on the challenges of our times. In this discussion, moderated by MIT
Professor of Political Science Melissa Nobles, Professor Joseph Carens
argues that unauthorized immigrants who have lived in the US for a sustained
period of time should be granted the right to stay. Professors Carol Swain,
Mathias Risse, and Jennifer Hochschild respond.
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