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Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
Join, or Die
Image by Benjamin Nathans In this brilliant adaptation of a 1754 political cartoon and woodcut by Ben Franklin, the University of Pennsylvania historian Benjamin Nathans reimagines the problem of collective...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
How US Universities Can Survive State Terrorism*
As a professor at MIT, I find myself navigating strange waters these days. Last semester, I advised the thesis of a student who left the country because she did not...
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. 4January/February 2026
Committees, Task Forces, and Working Groups – the Ins and Outs
Not so many weeks have elapsed in academic-semester time since my first column, but the interim has been eventful. On February 4, the Task Force on the Undergraduate Academic Program...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 4January/February 2026
MIT Faculty Age Distribution
Source: Office of the Provost/Institutional Research...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 4January/February 2026
Where is Your Memory? On Historical Amnesia, Selective Moral Disengagement, and Reality-Bending
MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi’s article in the November/December issue of the MIT Faculty Newsletter is a spectacular case study in the use and mis-use of language for reality-bending mirror accusations...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 4January/February 2026
A Student Expulsion at MIT: Questions About the MIT Disciplinary Process
On October 8, 2025, Prahlad Iyengar, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received a notice of disciplinary expulsion from MIT. The purported basis for...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 4January/February 2026
On Fiscal Balance, Entropy, and the Temperature of Knowledge
The recent announcement of the end of the 55% tuition support for research assistants has prompted many conversations across the Institute. I would like to contribute one from a narrow...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 4January/February 2026
FNL Editorial Board Election Outcome
This special election was held to fill five open seats on the Faculty Newsletter editorial board after the originally scheduled May 2025 election was postponed. Eleven candidates stood for election,...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 4January/February 2026
Moving On
The elections are over. The voters — the faculty — have spoken. We begin with gratitude. Eleven colleagues stepped forward as candidates in this election, placing their names before the...