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Caption: The 2021 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award recognizes David Miliband’s long and distinguished political career in the United Kingdom and his leadership in addressing the global refugee crisis. Miliband earned an SM in political science at MIT in 1990 as a Kennedy Scholar following his studies in philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University. Credits: Photo courtesy of the International Rescue Committee.
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The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) has announced that the Right Honorable David W. Miliband SM ’90, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), has been recognized with the 2021 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award.
Credits: Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Panos Pictures
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As a small child, Manduhai Buyandelger lived with her grandparents in a house unconnected to the heating grid on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. There, in the world’s coldest capital city, temperatures can drop as low as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter months.
“Once I moved further into the city with my parents, I had nightmares about my grandparents,” recalls Buyandelger, now a professor of anthropology at MIT. “I felt so vulnerable for them. In the ger district where they lived, most people do not have central heating, and they warm their homes by making fire in their stoves. My grandparents didn t have heat. I was always worried about them getting up in this icy cold house, carrying buckets of coal from their little shed back into the house, and then using a small shovel putting the coal in the stove. It has been more than 40 years since the
, which looked specifically at the future of the MIT education, was co-chaired by Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the School of Engineering and Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Melissa Nobles, Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and professor of political science.
Chandrakasan and Nobles spoke with MIT News about the recent societal changes that are likeliest to impact teaching and learning at MIT, the themes that arose in their group’s conversations, and the changes that might arise if some of their proposals are adopted.
Q: What changes due to the events of this past year do you think will have the most significant impact on an MIT education?
Caption: In his new book, In Song Kim aims to provides a big data analysis of contemporary trade policy-making, facilitating not only academic research of trade with a new unit of analysis, but also public awareness of product-specific trade negotiations such as the current China-U.S. trade dispute.” Credits: Photo: Stuart Darsch Caption: In Song Kim has worked to demystify the complex financial webs of Washington lobbying and to make those connections both visible and comprehensible to the public at large. In 2018, he launched the massive public database LobbyView.org. Credits: Image courtesy of LobbyView.org.
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