MIT Faculty Newsletter

May/June 2025Vol. XXXVII No. 5

Roger Levy New Chair of the Faculty

Newsletter Staff
Roger Levy, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, will succeed Mary Fuller as chair of the faculty on July 1, 2025.

This Is Not An Editorial

In René Magritte’s famous painting The Treachery of Images, a pipe is shown with the inscription “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” – “This is not a pipe.” It’s a paradox, or so it seems.

New Home for the MIT Music Program

The Music Program within the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences serves more than 1,500 MIT students who enroll in music classes each academic year.