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Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
My Soviet Past: Why We Need to be Vigilant About Academic Freedom
...Sixty-two percent of African Americans agree with that view as well. Next: is there any evidence that the minority students suffer? For example, is there any data showing that academic...
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
MIT Opens Learning for Refugees
...together into yearlong virtual certificate programs. We started with the Certificate in Computer and Data Science, now in its fourth year. Last year, ReACT had nearly 2,000 applicants for its...
Vol. XXXIII No. 2November/December 2020
LGBTQ+ Scientists and STEM
...to be heart-wrenching, inspiring, and constructive, from the very first word of the article – “Invisible”. It provides summaries of important studies whose data indicate a profound sense of marginalization...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
Lily Tsai New Chair of the Faculty
...as the World Bank, and governance innovation hubs to integrate social and behavioral science with data science and design thinking to develop and evaluate creative solutions, policies, and practices. These...
From Building Model Airplanes to Learning How Viruses and Complex Proteins are Built, at MIT, with Many Partners
...project, and her new facility at the University of Pittsburgh produced high resolution NMR data that confirmed that perturbation of the native state was unlikely to be the mechanism by...
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
Scholarly Publisher Contracts and New Benefits for MIT Authors
...Springer and Palgrave Wiley Many of these agreements also include text and data mining permissions, automatic deposit into MIT’s institutional repository, DSpace, and/or no requirement to waive MIT’s Faculty Open...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
The More Challenging DEI – A Befitting Role for MIT
...by shielding these young adults with “trigger warnings” from ideas or data they may not agree with? Of course, there is always the “paradox of inclusion,” which means that if...
Vol. XXXIII No. 3January/February 2021
New Leadership for Science Policy from Washington; Professor Gang Chen and Trump’s Last Anti-Science Campaign; Fresh Winds for the Nation from Biden/Harris; Honorary Degrees, Confederate Statues, and Naming Buildings
...and collaboration, both in the private biopharma sector, and in the international arena. The critical importance of public databases – such as the Genome Database and the Protein Structure Database...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Richard Milner)
...major contributions. Subsequently, when I was Bates Director, we took data on the deformation of the nucleon-delta system using extracted beam from the South Hall Ring. These data strongly constrain...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
What I Learned
...significant. (ii) The “data” for such studies depends on the source. Recall that “the first casualty of war is the truth.” Like Republicans and Democrats in the US, each side...