Search results for
Search
Please note, search results include issues May/June 2020 and later.
Search prior issues
Vol. XXXVII No. 4March/April 2025
On Travelogues
MIT faculty members travel the world, professionally or privately, but always with a purpose. With this in mind, we offer a new feature in the FNL, the Faculty Travelogue. We...
Massive Cuts to Science and Medicine in Trump Budget
Under the proposed budget . . . the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would see its annual budget shrink 18% from $31.8 billion to $26 billion. This includes cuts to...
Vol. XXXVII No. 4March/April 2025
A Habit of Courage: The Role of the GIRs at MIT
The Task Force on the Undergraduate Academic Program (TFUAP) issued a call for whitepapers in December of 2024 requesting inputs regarding the undergraduate program (see ovc.mit.edu/tfuap). I am thankful for...
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...
Vol. XXXVII No. 3January/February 2025
Creating the Role of the Vice Provost for Faculty
From the moment I became an MIT freshman many years ago, to my experiences as a graduate student, and throughout my time as a faculty member here on campus, I...
Vol. XXXVII No. 3January/February 2025
Where do we go from here?
Last month, I gave the keynote address at a local high school for their annual Martin Luther King, Jr. assembly. In preparation, I was inspired to read and title my...
Vol. XXXVII No. 3January/February 2025
The Leader as Moderator: Toward an Ethic of Everything (Everywhere, All at Once)
Some are called to lead from the front; many lead from the middle. There, whatever our titular authority, we report to multiple constituencies each of whom wields significant power to...
Vol. XXXVII No. 3January/February 2025
Setting the Record Straight
In his article in the last issue of the Faculty Newsletter, The Pulse Update, (Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, November/ December 2024), Prof. Yossi Sheffi writes “It [the FNL] also betrays...