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Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Beyond Risk Management? How to Learn from MIT’s International Engagements
I was inspired by Richard Lester’s article in the May/June 2020 Faculty Newsletter (“On the Risks and Benefits of New International Engagements”) in which he laid out a comprehensive process...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
MISTI Global Seed Funds Call for Proposals Launched September 14
The MISTI Global Seed Funds program enables participating teams to collaborate with international peers, either at MIT or abroad, to develop and launch joint research projects. MISTI GSF is comprised...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Strong MIT 2020 Campus Research Performance
Last March, MIT’s research enterprise quickly reduced its on-campus research activity to about 10% of normal capacity as a result of the global Covid-19 pandemic. By April, plans were underway...
Vol. XXXIV No. 1September/October 2021
Mens, Manus et Cor
In 2004, to honor retiring MIT President Charles M. Vest, I published an MIT Faculty Newsletter (FNL) article entitled “A Formal Recommendation to the MIT Corporation.” To celebrate the transcendent...
1986-1988 – A Visitor From a Strange Land
Richard Willson Huffington-Woestemeyer Professor Professor of Biochemical & Biophysical Science William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Houston willson@uh.edu Sometime in 1986 I was standing in...
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...
Vol. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
Faculty-Corporation Engagement in the Triangle of MIT’s System of Shared Governance
Why MIT’s system of shared governance works Engineers know about the strength of a triangle. It is a shape that is not easily distorted under pressure. Structures that use them...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Jonathan King)
As the ranks of MITs nuclear disarmament ranks thinned, with the passing away of Herman Feshbach, Vicki Weisskopf, and Phillip Morrison, Aron informally took over the effort to keep nuclear...
Vol. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
from the 2022 MIT Quality of Life Survey
Main Campus Employees and Students Source: Office of the Provost/Institutional Research...