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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. 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,...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Alan Guth)
This makes me seem old, but I have known Aron for 58 years. I first met him in the first term of my freshman year as a student at MIT...
Vol. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
Congratulations to our Graduates of the Years of the Pandemic
MIT’s Faculty honors and takes particular pride in the accomplishments and resilience of the Class of 2022. You have had to navigate and overcome the unprecedented stresses of these recent...
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
Project Indigenous MIT
In October 2021, a committee led by Professor Dan Hastings issued MIT’s “Values Statement.” Their committee, absent of Native/Indigenous participants, issued a statement that suggests that we at MIT will:...
Vol. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
Leadership, Management, and Education at MIT (redux)
This article is based on Professor Eagar’s original 2004 article (MIT Faculty Newsletter, Vol. XVI No. 5, April/May 2004) with new thoughts added by Professor Alex Slocum. Both are senior...