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Adventures of a Computational Scientist in the King Lab
Russell Schwartz Professor and Head, Computational Biology Department Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA russells@andrew.cmu.edu Introduction Although I was not in...
Things People Avoid Studying
Eugene Serebryany Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138 evgeny_serebryany@fas.harvard.edu What drew me to Jon as a mentor were his keen strategic insights in three areas....
Chaperonin Assembly and Substrate Folding
Oksana Sergeeva 2010-2014; PhD student oksana.sergeeva@gmail.com My years in Jon’s lab were some of the best years in my life. Not only did I love living in Cambridge and attending...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Open Letter to MIT Faculty from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research
November 4, 2021 Dear Colleagues: As faculty in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), we study a wide range of work and employment relations topics, including union-management...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Is MIT Losing Control of its Own Destiny?
Most people will take for granted that MIT is currently the most preeminent technical university in the world, and that it will remain so for the foreseeable future. Its prestige...
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,...
From Prufrock House to Antarctica
Charles N. David Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, emeritus Ludwig-Maximilians-University Grosshadernerstr. 2 82152 Planegg-Martinsried Germany david@bio.lmu.de Jon and I were roommates for several years at Caltech and for several...
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. 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
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...