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Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
Antiracism or Oppression: MIT Must Choose
Just after 5 pm on November 9th the MIT community bore witness to a scene that should belong to a dystopian fever dream, not a 21st century hall of learning....
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
No More MIT Research for Israel’s Ministry of Defense
On April 19th, members of MIT’s Graduate Student Union – UE Local 256 (GSU) democratically adopted a resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the MIT community to...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
Improving Our System of Faculty Governance
Rafael L. Bras was chair of the MIT faculty from 2003-2005. Following is a reprint of his “From The Faculty Chair” column from the February/March 2004 issue of the MIT...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
Statement by MIT Faculty in Support of the Student Encampment on Kresge Lawn
As the Alliance of Concerned Faculty at MIT we support and affirm our students’ right to peaceful political expression and support their rights to free speech. We thus express our...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
Non-Native English-Speaking Graduate Students Still Face Significant Disadvantages
Almost half of MIT graduate students arrive from outside the United States and immediately enter a communication-intensive culture here in which they must understand lectures, read voluminous amounts of material,...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
The News You Get From Poems
Many things are up in the air this week, and the Newsletter’s mode of static publication at a set, future time seems especially ill-suited to current conditions. I certainly feel...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
New Transportation Connectivity Has Roots at MIT
The $2 billion Allston Multimodal Project has just received a $335 million federal grant for connecting communities, giving the project new momentum and increased credibility. The key innovative conceptual element...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
The Danger of Nuclear Weapons and the Efforts at MIT to Reduce the Threats
The danger of the use of nuclear weapons in conflicts between countries on Earth is difficult to overstate. There are currently nine countries (United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom, France,...
Vol. XXXVII No. 1September/October 2024
Four Elected, One Re-elected to FNL Editorial Board
Four new members and one current member were elected to the Faculty Newsletter editorial board In the Institute-wide elections held last spring. Nearly twenty-eight percent of the faculty and emeritus...