This special election was held to fill five open seats on the Faculty Newsletter editorial board after the originally scheduled May 2025 election was postponed. Eleven candidates stood for election, representing all five Schools. Seven of the eight candidates from the May ballot agreed to stand again in the rescheduled vote.

Candidate statements and a description of the election process were posted on the FNL website. The statements were also distributed with the call to vote from Faculty Chair Roger Levy. As in previous elections, MIT Institutional Research administered the ballot and tallied the results.

Professor Levy announced the outcome to the faculty on February 18 (see table). The results combine renewal with continuity: four members are newly elected, and one is re-elected. All five had also appeared on the original May 2025 ballot. A record 455 of 1,450 eligible faculty members cast votes. Professors Catherine D’Ignazio, Alan Jasanoff, Nancy Kanwisher, Warren Seering, and Yang Shao-Horn will serve the remainder of the three-year term that began at the start of the 2025-26 academic year.

FNL Election Subcommittee

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