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Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
The Role and Reach of the MIT Faculty Newsletter; Thank You
Very few university faculties across the nation have an independent newsletter for their expression. Given that MIT plays a somewhat distinctive role in the national and international academic community, we...
Vol. XXXIII No. 4March/April 2021
Methodological Appendix
Our project encompassed five operational phases between July 2019-August 2020. The overall design and management of the study was led by Dr. Teresa Nelson and the data collection team and...
Vol. XXXIII No. 4March/April 2021
The Future Founders Initiative: Q&A with Susan Hockfield and Sangeeta Bhatia
In the fall of 2018, three MIT faculty members affiliated with the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research – Sangeeta Bhatia (engineering), Susan Hockfield (president emerita), and Nancy Hopkins (biology...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
Lily Tsai New Chair of the Faculty
Lily L. Tsai, Ford Professor of Political Science, will succeed Rick Danheiser as Chair of the Faculty on July 1, 2021. Lily has served as Chair-Elect during the current academic...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
MIT Plans for the Fall Semester
At the April 21 and May 12, 2021 Institute Faculty Meetings, I joined several colleagues to update the MIT community on the state of our planning for the fall 2021...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
Greetings to our Graduates in the Year of the Pandemic
What a year! For many of us it is hard to imagine the difficulties you have navigated through this past year of the pandemic. MIT’s faculty values and takes particular...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
Don’t Renew the ICBM Force, Eliminate It
A pressing issue that is currently under consideration in Washington, DC is whether to replace the aging deployment of InterContinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) with a new fleet of missiles. The...