Students & Alumni
Veteran MIT Administrator Named University Secretary
Suzanne Glassburn will manage the work of the Corporation and Board of Overseers.
by Jonathan Shaw
HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs
A celebration of significant alumni and shared interest groups
Overseer and Director Candidates
The official 2018 slates
“Gorey’s World”
Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum
by Nell Porter-Brown
Broadsheet Coffee Roasters
An antidote to Starbucksification?
by Nell Porter-Brown
Benjamin Franklin’s Retirement and Reinvention
Two hundred and seventy years ago, Benjamin Franklin did something highly unusual. He retired.
by William N. Thor...
Bryan Stevenson on the Shadow of White Supremacy
“I don’t think slavery ended in 1865 —I think it just evolved. I think it turned into decades of terrorism and violence and lynching.”
by Lydialyle Gibson
Henry Chapman Mercer
Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930
by Nancy Freudenthal
The Low End Theory
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
by Jesse McCarthy
Prodigies’ Progress
Parents and superkids, then and now
by Ann Hulbert
A Composed Response
Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice
by Jennifer McFarl...