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Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
The Pulse Update
The last Faculty Newsletter included an article authored by Roger Levy and me explaining many of the facets of The Pulse. As we go deeper into our tenure as the...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
An Open Letter to the MIT Community from the MIT Chapter of the AAUP
The MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) calls on MIT to immediately reinstate Prahlad Iyengar’s access to campus, with full rights, and for his case to...
Vol.XXXV No. 3January-April 2023
A Response to the Article by the Coalition Against Apartheid
A recent Faculty Newsletter (Vol. XXXV No. 1; September/October 2022) included a two-page article entitled “Palestine, MIT, and Free Speech: A Letter from Student Activists to Our Professors” alleging encumbrances...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
MIT Runs on Engineers (and Worry)
A late-summer dispatch from a campus where even the downhill picks up speed It’s mid-August at MIT, and nothing is flat — not the skyline, not the sidewalks, not even...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
For MIT and Country
On October 1st, the administration in Washington invited MIT and eight other institutions to sign a “compact” that would offer favorable governmental treatment in exchange for our commitment to “pursuing...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
MIT’s Faustian Bargain
There are many ways for a university to lose its soul. Some do it slowly, by trimming values until only the trimmings remain. Others do it quickly, with a pen....
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
Letters
When Protest Becomes Intimidation To The Faculty Newsletter: “This is Not an Editorial” may not have been an editorial, and it certainly was not a pipe. However, to write “Instead,...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
First US Destination of MIT PhDs Over the Last Five Years
Source: Office of the Provost/Institutional Research...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
J-WAFS: From an Idea to a Program
Remarks by Professor John H. Lienhard V at the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) 22 May 2025 In 2005, I began...