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Vol.XXXVI No. 3January-March 2024
Mea Culpa
I made a mistake. And I would like to apologize to everyone who was at the Institute faculty meeting of February 21, 2024. During that meeting I forgot to call...
Vol.XXXVI No. 3January-March 2024
Domicide: The Mass Destruction of Homes Should Be a Crime Against Humanity
The widespread or systematic destruction of homes has long been a feature of modern warfare. But what is often lost in the images of rubble and statistics of destroyed buildings...
Vol.XXXVI No. 3January-March 2024
In Defense of Learning, Research, and Free Inquiry
Since their emergence in medieval times, universities have served as outposts of independent thought, resisting pressures from the Church and State. Following the industrial revolution, universities in France, Great Britain,...
Vol.XXXVI No. 3January-March 2024
The Student Protesters and MIT
The massacre and kidnappings in Israel and the ongoing war against Palestinians living in Gaza have revealed deep fault lines within the MIT community. We use the term fault lines...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
The MIT Campus Responds to Recent Events on Campus Concerning the War in the Middle East
The following six articles are all unsolicited submissions to the MIT Faculty Newsletter from Institute faculty, students, and staff, regarding recent events on the MIT campus. All contributions are the...
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
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...