Lana Swartz, ’09, presents “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media”
The MIT Alumni Association hosted a Faculty Forum Online with alum Lana Swartz, now an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
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Alum Sue Ding’s documentary short, “The Claudia Kishi Club”, released on Netflix
“It’s filmmaker Sue Ding’s love letter to Claudia-philes.”
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CMS/W and Racial Justice: A Path Forward
Our faculty in the MIT Faculty Newsletter: “Each of us, separately and together, can continue to fight for justice.”
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Scaling up behavioral science interventions in online education
“Adequately supporting diverse students will require more than a light-touch intervention.”
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Alan Lightman talks with Oprah Winfrey
Even during this era’s fight to defend facts, there is still “an unprovable but real connection between all living things.”
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