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Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
Selecting a New President
In its 156 years, MIT will begin selecting a new president for the nineteenth time. The MIT Corporation will make the selection informed by the recommendation of a Search Committee....
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
A Unifying Online Proposal for MIT’s Educational Mission Based on Open edX
Introduction and Vision MIT was born as an undergraduate institution to prepare students for jobs as “industrial scientists.” Today its vast impact is mainly due to its graduate students, postdocs,...
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
Campus Research Revenues
This graphic shows campus research revenues as percentages by sponsor type, averaged over five fiscal years, 2017-2021....
Vol. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
MIT and a Green New Deal for Cambridge
MIT was founded in 1861, at the start of the war over slavery, to catalyze the Industrial Revolution in America. In that regard it has been spectacularly successful. Industrialization itself...
Vol. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
No New Cold – or Hot – War!
The Increased Danger of Nuclear War The world is awash in nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. This stark statement includes Russian missiles, British missiles, French missiles, Pakistani missiles, Indian missiles,...
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
Clarification Needed on MIT’s Commitment to Freedom of Speech
To The Faculty Newsletter: The long statement by Professors Eduardo Kausel and John Williams (“Is MIT Losing Control of its Own Destiny?”, MIT Faculty Newsletter, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2) is...
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....
Jonathan King: (Edward L. Loechler)
I have been a Professor of Biology at Boston University since 1984. I have published 80+ scientific articles in my field of specialization: how chemicals cause cancer. I closed my...
Jonathan King: (Lisa Guisbond)
I’ve had the great good fortune to work with Jonathan in many contexts, beginning with the anti-MCAS movement in the late 1990s, when I first experienced the way he combined...