[Editors] Advanced Manufacturing & Other Great Ideas
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QUOTABLE
"We’re seeing a wave of new technologies in energy, biotechnology,
batteries,
where there has to be a closer integration between research, development,
design,
product definition and production.”
— _Suzanne Berger, MIT Professor of Political Science,_
_on American companies bringing industrial processes back to America _
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MULTIMEDIA
_Audio Slidehow_
_The Kuna Celebrations | Photographs and Narration by James Howe _
James Howe, MIT Professor of Anthropology, has spent more than forty years
working and collaborating with the Kuna, an indigenous people of Panama. In
this audio slide show, Howe tells the story of how a Kuna village prepares
for and conducts a great communal celebration, an event that can last up to
four days, and embodies the Kuna's important values, beliefs, and ways of
life.
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kuna exhibit kuna-man
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NEWS AND FEATURES
_Does America need manufacturing?_
For several decades, many American companies found that "offshoring" their
industrial work could raise profits. But now the situation has changed. In a
NYT's article, MIT Professor of Political Science Suzanne Berger says "We’re
seeing a wave of new technologies in energy, biotechnology, batteries, where
there has to be a closer integration between research, development, design,
product definition and production.”
[6]Article in The New York Times | [7]MIT PIE
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6. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/magazine/does-america-need-manufacturing.html?utm_source=Soundings+%7C+Fall+2011&utm_campaign=109f2c973d-Said_and_Done_September_20119_12_2011&utm_medium=email
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mit-pie Suzanne Berger mit-pie
_Wheaton proposes a mortgage fix for U.S. lenders and homeowners: shared
equity_
Bill Wheaton, MIT Professor of Economics, and Kenneth Rogoff, of Harvard
University, suggest that the "government facilitate mortgage write-downs in
exchange for claims on a percentage of future appreciation–potentially
making it a win not only for homeowners who owe more on their homes than
their properties are worth, but also a win for lenders and investors who
would eventually be repaid for giving borrowers a break."
[8]Read how it could work in Fortune Finance
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RESEARCH PORTFOLIO
_Meeting the world's great challenges_
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.
[9]Research Portfolio
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_Lépinay book gives an insider view of investment banking _
In _Codes of Finance_, Vincent Lépinay, MIT Assistant Professor in Science,
Technology and Society, gives an insider account of investment banking, and
the high-risk trades that can spin out of control. A call for reshaping
financial innovation. “It’s an excellent book,” says William Maurer, chair
of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California at Irvine.
“There are few people who’ve had the kind of access he was able to secure,
at the moment of formation of a financial instrument that was central to the
meltdown in 2008.”
[10]Story 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.
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Vincent Lepinay codes of finance financial chart
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COMMUNITY
_New Faculty_
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences is pleased to present
the newest members of the faculty. A warm welcome to these superb scholars:
Sasha Costanza-Chock, CMS; Lerna Ekmekcioglu, History; Hiromu Nagahara,
History; Lucas Stanczyk, Political Science; Teppei Yamamoto, Political
Science
[12]Bio notes and photographs
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_Mellon Fellows for 2011-2013_
With the generous support of the Mellon Foundation, the School awards two
fellowships each year to promising young scholars working at the
intersection of humanities disciplines, or between humanities and other
disciplines. We are delighted to welcome two new Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows
for 2011-2013—Hye Jean Chung and Gretchen Henderson—and to welcome back the
Mellon Fellows for 2010-2012, Chuong-Dai Vo and Amaranth Borsuk.
[13]Bio notes and photographs
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_Ugandan human rights journalist joins the Center for International Studies_
Jackee Budesta Batanda, a Ugandan human rights journalist who has reported
on the vicious acid attacks of women as "revenge crimes" and the targeted
murders of albinos, has been selected as the 2011-2012 Elizabeth Neuffer
Fellow. The award is offered through the International Women's Media
Foundation and is sponsored in part by the Center for International Studies
at MIT.
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Henderson Chung Batanda
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
_MIT Political Science Distinguished Speaker Series_
Thursday, September 15, 3pm | Wong Auditorium (E51-115) | Co-hosted by
Political Science Department and the Production in the Innovative Economy
(PIE) group. Several leading MIT faculty will review a series of
manufacturing topics, after which Ron Bloom, former Senior Counselor to the
President, will speak. Nobel laureate and MIT economist Robert Solow will
lead a short closing discussion.
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_Chomsky talk launches year two of the Ideas Matter Forum Series_
September 22, 4:30-6pm, MIT Tang Center
Noam Chomsky will discuss “The Responsibility of Intellectuals,” revisiting
the controversial topic he first addressed in 1967. The Ideas Matter lecture
series is a joint project of Boston Review and the MIT Political Science
Department.
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_Robert A. Muh Alumni Award Lecture in the Humanities, Arts, and Social
Sciences_
Wednesday, October 26, 5pm | Public lecture followed by public reception |
Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Building E15
Dr. Joseph E. Aoun, PhD ' 82 Linguistics, and President, Northeastern
University has received the 2011 Muh Alumni Award, and will give a lecture
entitled "The Future of American Higher Education in the Global Knowledge
Marketplace."
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Muh Poster Aoun Muh Poster
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MULTIMEDIA
_Video: The Perfect Oyster _
A great short piece about restoring natural oyster reefs in coastal
waters—and why that matters for healthy oceans. Produced by talented
students in the School's Graduate Program in Science Writing.
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