Ellen Swallow Richards graduated from MIT in 1873 and later became an instructor there. In this edition of the MIT Alumni Books podcast, Richards's cousin, three generations removed, tells the story of Richards's remarkable life. Pamela Curtis Swallow dis

In his new book, Architecture by Moonlight: Rebuilding Haiti, Redrafting a Life, Paul Fallon '77, SM '81, MArch '81 recounts his two-year challenge to help design, plan, and build the orphanage with a family in honor of their daughter. Published just ahea

Clara Fernández-Vara SM '04, an Associate Arts Professor at the Game Center at New York University, discusses her book Introduction to Game Analysis. In one respect,Introduction to Game Analysis is a history of modern gaming, covering everything from M

A conversation with Judith Donath SM '86, PhD '97, whose book The Social Machine was published by MIT Press in May 2014. The book is a chronicle of Donath's projects in social media dating from the late 1980s, long before the term was in vogue. Donath a

Fariborz Ghadar '68, SM '70 discusses his new book, Becoming American: Why Immigration Is Good for Our Nation's Future. “Like many other immigrants before and after me, I had become aerodynamic,” Ghadar writes. “Shaped by the stronger than normal

Emperor penguin fathers nest on an egg for two months while the mothers journey to the sea to feed. The mimic poison frog nurtures its tadpole young through adolescence. Are human fathers this important? Paul Raeburn, MIT class of 1972, examines that ques

Monica Byrne SM '05 discusses her debut novel, The Girl in the Road, in this podcast from the MIT Alumni Association. Byrne, tells the story of one young woman leaving her home in Mumbai to cross the Arabian Sea on a futuristic solar bridge, and another

Fredric Raichlen SM ’55, ScD ’62, a civil engineering professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, discusses his new book, Waves (MIT Press, 2013), in this Alum Books Podcast episode.

Downton Abbey fans have seen scant evidence of 20th-century media in the Masterpiece Classic program, but that may change in coming seasons. Thanks to the founding of BBC Radio in 1927, estates in financial trouble like that which Downton faces in season

Douglas Hough '71 discusses his new book, Irrationality in Health Care, What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why in this podcast from the MIT Alumni Association. Hough, who studied economics under four Nobel laureates in his days at MIT