Upcoming Events

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is honored to welcome Dr. Jennifer Allen for a seminar on the impact of misleading headlines and vaccine hesitancy. The talk will focus on recent work published in Science quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook. In the paper, Allen and her co-auther find that […]

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome Dr. David Kaiser for a talk on black holes and dark matter. For fifty years, physicists have been stymied by the puzzle of dark matter. From the motion of enormous clusters of galaxies to the rate at which individual galaxies spin, decades of careful […]

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome Dr. Shayla L. Monroe of Harvard for a seminar on zooarchaeology. Human-animal relations have always been essential for the survival of Saharan peoples. These relationships between people, wild fauna, and domesticated animals, however, go far beyond survival, impacting the ideology, sociality, and political relationships […]

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome Dr. Barbara Spieker of Atomic Hands for a seminar on communicating science to the deaf community. Please contact Learning and Events Coordinator Claire Sadar if you are interested in attending.

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome back former fellow Pagan Kennedy, KSJ '11, for a talk about her new book The Secret History of the Rape Kit. In The Secret History of the Rape Kit Pagan tells the story of the troubled, heroic woman who kicked off a feminist revolution […]

The Knight Science Journalism program at is excited to welcome Dr. Johan Chu of the Sloan School of Management at MIT. The Internet and now AI drastically lower the barriers to entry to markets. Within a few months, for example, you may be able to create cinema-quality video without actors, cameras, or access to physical […]

The Knight Science Journalism program is excited to welcome Dr. Ufuoma Ovienmhada, Baker Endowed Postdoctoral Research Associate in Climate Change and Human Resiliency at the University of Arizona, for a seminar on the applications of satellite remote sensing data for environmental justice. In her doctoral dissertation, Ovienmhada employed a multi-method approach to research the distribution […]

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is pleased to welcome Renee Robins, the Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS), and Greg Sixt, Director, Food and Climate Systems Transformation (FACT) Alliance, and Research Manager for Climate and Food Systems at J-WAFS. J-WAFS is an MIT Institute-wide effort that […]

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome science writer and paleontologist Riley Black for a seminar on her work. Please contact Learning and Events Coordinator Claire Sadar if you are interested in attending.

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome Greg Epstein, the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard & MIT, for a talk on his new book Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why it Desperately Needs a Reformation. In the 100 or so days since Tech Agnostic's publication, Elon […]

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome Dr. Oliver Rollins for a seminar on his work on neuroscience and race. Historically, race—particularly its erroneous interpretation as a biological reality—has played a crucial role in creating biological (mis)understandings of crime. Yet today’s neuroimaging research on violence operates with a conspicuous absence of […]