Medical Humanities Residency

MTA Lecturer Kāli Quinn traveled to Duke University to teach Compassionate Creativity to undergraduates within two classes - End of Life Ethics and Medical Stories On Stage - and to perform her two solo shows about aging, memory loss, grief, and identity. These shows were received well, creating new language and possibilities around intergenerational care, with audiences at Duke's School of Medicine and the Divinity School.

For more information about Kāli, please visit her Faculty profile, linked here

Keeril Makan named vice provost for the arts

An acclaimed composer and longtime MIT faculty member, Makan will direct the next act in MIT’s story of artistic leadership.

The “delicious joy” of creating and recreating music

Leslie Tilley combines deep experience as a musician with cultural and formal analysis, to see how people refashion music anew.

Seen and heard: The new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building

Until very recently, Mariano Salcedo, a fourth-year MIT electronic engineering and computer science student majoring in artificial intelligence and decision-making, was planning to apply for a master’s program in computer science at MIT.

Travels with Rambax

KAOLACK, Senegal – The MIT students have just finished dinner and are crumpling soda cans into trash bins when they get the summons: “Grab your drums, grab your drums, grab your drums …”