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Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Improving MIT’s Written Commitment to Freedom of Expression
There is no single place in MIT’s official documentation where the Institute’s commitment to free expression on campus for all community members is clearly and prominently set out. Policies &...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
MIT’s Endowment Returns and Fossil Fuels
To the Faculty Newsletter: The announcement on October 14 of MIT’s spectacular endowment returns frames a question: How much less spectacular might the return have been if MIT had been...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Feedback on the First Draft of MIT’s “Five-year Strategic Action Plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”
Thank you for inviting all members of the MIT community to submit their feedback on this important report. I am an MIT lifer who entered as a freshman in 1961,...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
My Soviet Past: Why We Need to be Vigilant About Academic Freedom
In September of this year, MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences decided to cancel the prestigious Carlson Lecture, which was going to be delivered by Professor Dorian Abbot....
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Protecting Freedom of Expression at MIT
The recent EAPS lecture cancellation has raised again questions of academic freedom, a central issue for all faculty. In this issue of the Faculty Newsletter we publish a series of...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Avoiding Corporate Conflict of Interest Among MIT Leadership
After initially resisting such calls, Boston’s Dana Farber Cancer Institute recently enacted strict new rules to avoid conflicts of interest in which Board of Trustees members might profit from investments...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Letter By 77 Faculty Re: Professor Abbot’s Lecture Cancellation
We, a group of concerned Faculty, believe that the cancellation of the scheduled EAPS Carlson Lecture by invited speaker Professor Dorian Abbot of the University of Chicago casts a shadow...
Jonathan King Bibliography
2021 Jonathan King and Richard Krushnic (2021) “Military Industrial Complex Exerts Powerful Influence on Biden’s Foreign Policy”,Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/military-industrial-complex-exerts-powerful-influence-on-bidens-foreign-policy/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=3d655eab-b865-4bb3-adf8-e715d261b2f2 2020 Jonathan King, David Goldenberg, Gary Goldstein, William Hartung, Catherine Royer, Eric...
Jonathan King’s 80th Birthday Festschrift
Introduction The Chapters below are contributions to an 80th Birthday celebration from members of my research lab and research collaborators. The Chapters are listed in alphabetical order, except mine, which...
Adventures of a Computational Scientist in the King Lab
Russell Schwartz Professor and Head, Computational Biology Department Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA russells@andrew.cmu.edu Introduction Although I was not in...