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Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Encourage Your Students to Vote
Dear Fellow Faculty, In 1998, the Higher Education Act was amended to require universities to make a good faith effort to encourage student voter registration. At MIT, 72% of eligible...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Transforming Research Administration: Second Update
Earlier this year, we provided a progress report on MIT’s work to transform its research and sponsored activity enterprise to meet the needs of principal investigators (PIs) in a changing...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Request for Innovative Curricular Projects; The Alex and Brit d’Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education
The Office of the Vice Chancellor is soliciting wide-ranging proposals to support larger-scale ambitious projects designed to strengthen MIT undergraduate education and curricula, and enrich the academic experience of our...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Nominate a Colleague as a MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Provost Cynthia Barnhart is calling for nominations of faculty as 2023 MacVicar Faculty Fellows. The MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program recognizes MIT faculty who have made exemplary and sustained contributions to...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Palestine, MIT, and Free Speech: A Letter from Student Activists to Our Professors
We are the MIT Coalition Against Apartheid (CAA), a student group that is the product of years of advocacy efforts by Palestinians and Palestinian rights activists. The CAA first began...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Strengths and Weaknesses of an MIT Education
To The Faculty Newsletter: Thomas Eagar and Alex Slocum nicely outlined some of MIT’s best qualities (“Leadership, Management and Education at MIT, redux“, MIT Faculty Newsletter, May/June 2022). I am...
From Building Model Airplanes to Learning How Viruses and Complex Proteins are Built, at MIT, with Many Partners
Jonathan King Professor of Molecular Biology, Emeritus Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA jaking@MIT.edu Early Years in Brooklyn When I was three years old I contracted polio, affecting my knees....
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Concern with MIT’s Response to Professor Abbot
To The Faculty Newsletter: As a mother of a 2015 graduate, I fully agree with the opinions of Dr. Geil, and with the open letter. We had sent our son...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Lessons on Governance from Yale
A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Len Gutkin, “The Review: The Report Yale Doesn’t Want You to See” (August 22, 2022) is very illuminating about how...