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Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
Interim Report on Committee to Review Faculty Newsletter Policies and Procedures
At the May 15, 2024, Institute faculty meeting, a motion passed to stand up an ad hoc committee to review and revise the policies and procedures of the MIT Faculty...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
Faculty, Students, Postdoctoral Scholars 1870-2025
Source: Office of the Provost/Institutional Research...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
A Painful Personal Reality and a Call to MIT Faculty
On August 17, my host brother from Gaza, Mohammed Masbah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike with his mom, dad, and brother. He stayed with my family in the US...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
Go Fly A Kite: Academic Freedom and Student Protests
Recently, the Vice President for Research (VPR) reached out to me asking for the content of a project at the Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) involving Maersk, the world’s...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
How MIT Can Educate the World for the Era of AI
Imagine a world where MIT educates hundreds of millions of learners across the globe on the fundamentals of AI with an application-oriented process. A world where we educate learners of...
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...
Massive Cuts to Science and Medicine in Trump Budget
Under the proposed budget . . . the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would see its annual budget shrink 18% from $31.8 billion to $26 billion. This includes cuts to...
Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
The Legacy of the Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI)
I am writing about the legacy of MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI) because it will be closing at the end of this spring semester. After a series of discussions that...
Vol. XXXVII No. 4March/April 2025
Understanding the Importance of Healthcare Proxy Forms
Healthcare is a critical part of our lives at every stage. As small children, we experience healthcare through childhood illnesses, vaccinations, and occasional injuries. In college and in our young...