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Vol. XXXVIII No. 3November/December 2025
A Primer on Decarbonizing MIT’s Campus: What Every MIT Faculty Member Should Know
When we talk about the MIT campus, we’re not only describing a collection of buildings along the Charles River. We’re describing a living laboratory – nearly 200 buildings that power,...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 4January/February 2026
How Birding and Engineering Brought Me to Write: Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders
My upcoming book, Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders, will be published by MIT Press on April 28. How did I get from my research on the...
Candidates for FNL Editorial Board Election
Dwaipayan Banerjee https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/dwai-banerjee/ I am an Associate Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. My research examines the intersection of technology, medicine, and politics in South Asia. I...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 3November/December 2025
Little Lights in a Long Winter
This winter, a quiet tristesse has settled across the Institute as austerity narrows conversation. Yet renewal often begins in moments like these – when faculty take up the harder questions...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 3November/December 2025
Letters to the Faculty Newsletter
Editorial Note The Faculty Newsletter (FNL) publishes letters, opinion pieces, and editorials that reflect the views of their authors. Occasionally, when concerns arise on the editorial board regarding accuracy, tone,...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 3November/December 2025
Where Are You? On Selective Outrage and Moral Credibility
The recent videos of Hamas executing Palestinians in Gaza were horrifying. Yet anyone who witnessed the terror attacks of October 7, 2023 – when Hamas militants murdered, raped, and tortured...