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Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Robert Redwine)
Like many of you, I knew Aron for quite a long time. I knew him a bit before I joined the faculty at MIT, because he was of course already...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Richard Milner)
Physicist I recall first meeting Aron at the Intersections Conference in Rockport, Maine on May 14-19, 1987. He and I collaborated on pioneering experiments to measure spin-dependent electron scattering from...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Susan Goldhor)
Aron was as close as you can get to being self-made. He grew up in a financially, intellectually and culturally impoverished family. The things that he loved and that defined...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Dan Bernstein)
I want to thank Bob Redwine and the event coordinators for organizing this memorial and both the Department and MIT for honoring my father. All of you here today know...
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...
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
An Update on Research Administration
Over the years, two overarching trends have added to the research administration complexity faced by principal investigators at MIT. First, the fraction of research funding that comes from non-federal sources,...
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
New Commencement Format for 2022
MIT’s student population has grown in recent decades, and with it, the number of graduates participating in Commencement has increased. In 2019, 3,556 students received degrees. That represented a 26...
Vol. XXXIV No. 1September/October 2021
Radius: Bringing Ethics to the Center of Science and Technology
“We are at the point of being overwhelmed by the very bulk of our accumulated information, bewildered by the diversity of our manufactures. And we are failing today to assess...
Don’t Fall in Love with Your Hypothesis
Dessy Raytcheva Department of Biology, COS Northeastern University 134 Mugar, 203A 360 Huntington Ave Boston, MA 02115 desislava.raytcheva@gmail.com I was part of the King’s lab family from 2006 until 2012....