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Vol. XXXIII No. 4March/April 2021
Comment from Maria Zuber, E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Research
...data is power. The data collected by the Boston Biotech Working Group are already leading to actions that may ultimately help build careers, drive economic growth, and even save lives....
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
...Why is this so important? Data show that female faculty have already been disproportionally affected during Covid. Men are submitting 50% more papers during the Covid era than prior to...
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...
From Mississippi to MIT and Beyond
...Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, NY. There I studied with Arnold Sparrow collecting mutational data from an experiment that flew aboard Biosatellite 2. The model system was the spider...
Vol. XXXIII No. 2November/December 2020
Nationwide Unemployment Insurance Fraud Scheme
...information from earlier national data breaches. There is, however, no indication that these fraudulent claims stem from any breach of MIT data. If you receive correspondence from the Department of...
Vol.XXXV No. 3January-April 2023
A Response to the Article by the Coalition Against Apartheid
...Institute. Based on 2019 FBI Data, Jews Were 2.6X More Likely Than Blacks and 2.2X More Likely Than Muslims to Be Victims of Hate Crimes. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/based-on-2019-fbi-data-jews-were-2-6x-more-likely-than-blacks-and-2-2x-more-likely-than-muslims-to-be-victims-of-hate-crimes/ [17] Department of Justice....
Vol.XXXVI No. 3January-March 2024
Our Public Sphere, or, How to Meet as a Faculty
...ready to engage on key topics because we have had a chance to examine data or proposals in advance. This, too, is challenging. Our time and attention are always under...