The MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) launched earlier this fall. A formal kickoff event for MITHIC was held on campus Monday, Oct. 28, before a full audience in MIT's Huntington Hall (Room 10-250). The event featured a conversation with Min Jin Lee, acclaimed author of 'Pachinko,' moderated by Linda Pizzuti Henry SM '05, co-owner and CEO of Boston Globe Media. Initiative leaders say MITHIC will foster creativity, inquiry, and understanding, amplifying the Institute's impact on global challenges like climate change, AI, pandemics, poverty, democracy, and more. President Sally Kornbluth says MITHIC is the first of a new model known as the MIT Collaboratives, designed among other things to foster and support new collaborations on compelling global problems. The next MIT Collaborative will focus on life sciences and health. 'We created MITHIC with a particular focus on the human-centered fields, to help advance research with the potential for global impact. MITHIC also has...
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