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Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020

Beyond Risk Management? How to Learn from MIT’s International Engagements

Bish Sanyal
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

Alicia Goldstein Raun
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

Maria T. Zuber
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

James H. Williams, Jr.
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

Daniel Jackson
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

Lily Tsai, Rick Danheiser, Robert Jaffe, Thomas Kochan
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

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