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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...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
Reply to Prof. Hutchinson on Arguing Ad Hominem
Professor Hutchinson claims that the authors of the open letter to Professor Alex Byrne[1] commit the logical fallacy of arguing ad hominem. To commit this fallacy is to illicitly exploit...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
Are Ad Hominem Attacks Legitimate Academic Freedom?*
The Latin phrase ad hominem meaning to the person describes approaches to argumentation, debate, discourse, and politics, that consist of personal attacks against the opposing speaker, rather than presenting arguments...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
Introducing OACES
In August 2025, we were pleased to announce the arrival of OACES (pronounced “oasis”), or the Office of Academic Community, Empowerment, and Success. OACES is a “pillar” (or sub-unit) in...
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. 1September/October 2025
Why There Were No Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board Elections Last Spring
Some of you may be wondering why the Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board elections didn’t happen this May. The FNL Nominations Committee went through a process of selecting a slate of...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
The Endless Frontier 2
The “compact” MIT was invited to sign, along with eight other universities, is flawed, to put it mildly. Setting aside the issue of conditioning “priority for grants” on compliance with...