News Home 5 News Lit Majors Kelly Kim’26 and Sabine Chu’26: Thesis Defended!SHASS Alumni Gallery Spotlights | Cara Lai graduated from MIT in 2016 with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Literature!MIT Global Humanities Launches New Podcast Series “Medicine and Healing Arts”Peter S. Donaldson Prize 2026 awarded to Literature Major: Sabine Chu!MIT News | MIT marks first Robert R. Taylor Day with Tuskegee UniversityNYT Book Review | Poetry Month Reading Recommendations, featuring Joshua Bennett’s newest book!April 9th | Recording of “Green-Taylor Lectures: A Black Life and Letters Speakers Series presents, Tracy K. Smith” in conversation with Prof Joshua BennettMarch 30 | Djamila Ribeiro at MIT – Where We Stand (Talk and Book Signing)April 10 | MIT Architecture presents, Robert Robinson Taylor Day: Building on the Legacy of MIT’s First Black GraduateThe New York Times | Book Review: In Poems and Essays, Joshua Bennett Celebrates Black Excellence!4 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445 5
SHASS Alumni Gallery Spotlights | Cara Lai graduated from MIT in 2016 with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Literature!
April 9th | Recording of “Green-Taylor Lectures: A Black Life and Letters Speakers Series presents, Tracy K. Smith” in conversation with Prof Joshua Bennett
April 10 | MIT Architecture presents, Robert Robinson Taylor Day: Building on the Legacy of MIT’s First Black Graduate
