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Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
The Nomination Process for Faculty Officers and Faculty Committee Membership
...Nominees A link to each nominee’s website – for both faculty officer and committee openings – is provided in the slate circulated to the faculty in advance of the March...
Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
Neither Fire Nor Ice – Just Chatter
...by a link to a separate page. (Thanks to my colleague Franz Ulm for this suggestion.) This threat must be contained, by law and treaty, as biological weapons have been....
Vol. XXXIII No. 2November/December 2020
The Problem with Philanthropy
...fulfil its responsibilities to the public. This article was originally published as part of the New Statesman’s philosophy column: Agora. You can find a link to the original publication here....
Vol. XXXII No. 5May/June 2020
Interview with Ragon Institute Director Dr. Bruce Walker
...the vaccine. We have animal data that should be out soon in terms of protection. And so that’s on the vaccine front. On the treatment front, Boston University and the...
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
An Update on Research Administration
...due to a range of factors such as new compliance, data privacy, and disclosure requirements. Many principal investigators (PIs) at MIT now manage more diverse research portfolios composed of more...
Vol. XXXIII No. 3January/February 2021
Task Force 2021 and Beyond – Toward “Building a Better MIT”
...these two main workstreams was the Finance and Data Workstream (chaired by Professor Glenn Ellison and MIT Controller Danielle Khoury) as well as a Legal and Ethics resource team chaired...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Push the Pause Button on Teleconference Interviews for New Faculty Hires
...for a child compared to 47% of male faculty (non-binary gender data was unavailable.)). The Administration’s response is important in recognizing and providing additional childcare support((https://hr.mit.edu/covid19/childcare-subsidy#:~:text=MIT%20is%20pleased%20to%20offer,19%20supplemental%20child%20care%20subsidy.&text=Employees%20may%20request%20a%20nontaxable,of%20three%20children%20per%20household)) and adapting tenure policies...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
MITx SPOCs for Gaza
...Lecturer Ana Bell Data Analysis for Social Scientists, led by Professor Esther Duflo (2019 Nobel Prize in Economics) and Senior Lecturer Sara Ellison Calculus 1A (differentiation) and Calculus 1B (integration),...
Vol.XXXVI No. 4April 2024
Questioning the “Mea Culpa”: Mathematically and Administratively
...deliberate manipulation of the reader, and at best a confusion of the role of Gaussian distributions in statistics. Third, I question the data that was used. The data itself is...
Vol. XXXVII No. 3January/February 2025
Reflections on the MIT Research Enterprise
When I started as MIT’s vice president for research, on May 1, 2024, one of the first things I did was collect data to help me understand the state of...