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Vol. XXXII No. 5May/June 2020
“May You Live in Interesting Times”: The Year in Review
My term as Chair of the MIT Faculty began on July 1, 2019. To say that it has been an interesting year would be something of an understatement. Revelations about...
Vol. XXXII No. 5May/June 2020
Heartsick. Anguished. Enraged.
Here we go again with the grief and outrage of being black in America. This time, we’re trying to survive two pandemics. With Covid, our communities are suffering disproportionate sickness...
Vol. XXXII No. 5May/June 2020
Words + Words + Words
As a Black scholar of literary studies, I want to honor and thank all of the justice-seeking words that came before our 2020 ones – words that either vocally or...
Vol. XXXII No. 5May/June 2020
The Case Against “#BlackLivesMatter?”
J.C. Woodard was awarded his SB degree in Mechanical Engineering in June of 2018, then earned an SM degree from Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar, and is now working...
Vol. XXXII No. 5May/June 2020
Voices from the MIT Community Vigil
The following four messages speak to the tragic circumstances triggered by racism, the consequent chronic experience of fear, and the need for our community to recognize and address the continuum...
Vol. XXXII No. 5May/June 2020
A Faculty Testimonial
Years back I was privileged to have a very talented African-American graduate student. She was awarded her PhD for a superior thesis in physical biochemistry. Though offered a prestigious research...
Vol. XXXII No. 5May/June 2020
CMS/W and Racial Justice: A Path Forward
We support Black Lives Matter and other activists protesting racism and police violence, spurred by the killing of George Floyd. We must stand with them, speak out strongly, and act...
Vol. XXXII No. 5May/June 2020
Literature’s Statement of Solidarity
The Literature Section of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stands against racism and the policing policies that enforce it. We abhor the racial profiling and the violence that have resulted...
Vol. XXXII No. 5May/June 2020
Statement from MIT Anthropology
In the midst of Covid-19’s unfolding and unequal death tolls and of ongoing police, state, and everyday violence against Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous communities in the United States and...
Vol. XXXII No. 5May/June 2020
Ramping Up On-Campus Research at MIT
After two months of sequestering researchers from campus to address health concerns for our community as the world battled the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, plans are underway to restart...