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Vol. XXXIII No. 4March/April 2021
MIT Women and Men Faculty in Science and Engineering as Founders and Board Members of Companies in Science and Technology
A Report from the Data Group of the Boston Biotech Working Group((BBWG Data Group Sangeeta Bhatia is John and Dorothy Wilson Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (sbhatia@mit.edu); Nancy Hopkins...
Vol. XXXIII No. 4March/April 2021
Comment from Maria Zuber, E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Research
One of the things I most admire about MIT is our willingness to look at ourselves in the mirror and acknowledge that we need to do better. In 1999, MIT...
Vol. XXXIII No. 4March/April 2021
Origins of the Boston Biotech Working Group to Address the Underrepresentation of Women Faculty as Board Members and Founders of Biotech Start-ups
Introduction Many MIT faculty, particularly in Science and Engineering, engage in entrepreneurial activities. This includes founding companies and serving on their boards of directors or scientific advisory boards. In some...
Vol. XXXIII No. 4March/April 2021
Special Edition: Women in Biotech
This Special Edition of the MIT Faculty Newsletter describes an initiative to address persistent underrepresentation of women faculty as board members and founders of biotech start-ups. Lack of participation at...
Vol. XXXIII No. 3January/February 2021
Task Force 2021 and Beyond – Toward “Building a Better MIT”
In May last year, in a letter to the MIT community President Rafael Reif announced the creation of “Task Force 2021 and Beyond”, a major initiative aimed at re-envisioning MIT...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
MIT Plans for the Fall Semester
At the April 21 and May 12, 2021 Institute Faculty Meetings, I joined several colleagues to update the MIT community on the state of our planning for the fall 2021...
Vol. XXXIII No. 3January/February 2021
The Legacy of the Involvement of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 2020, people around the world commemorated the 75th year since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. People gathered with flags and flowers...
Vol. XXXIII No. 3January/February 2021
Why Have We, a Group of MIT Faculty, Signed the Letter in Support of Gang Chen?
Because if such a prominent citizen of our country, a loyal American, a person who has raised his children here, a beloved teacher and scientist who has dedicated his creativity...
Vol. XXXIII No. 3January/February 2021
Faculty Letter to President Reif in Support of Professor Gang Chen
January 21, 2021 Dear President Reif: As colleagues and friends of MIT Professor Gang Chen, we share our dismay and pain over his recent arrest [1]. We all know Professor...
Vol. XXXIII No. 3January/February 2021
Moving Forward: MIT Medical’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
For MIT Medical, the Covid-19 crisis began January 21, 2020. That was the first day we began following the novel virus, now known as SARS-CoV-2, that has changed every aspect...