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Vol. XXXVII No. 4March/April 2025
On Travelogues
MIT faculty members travel the world, professionally or privately, but always with a purpose. With this in mind, we offer a new feature in the FNL, the Faculty Travelogue. We...
Vol.XXXV No. 3January-April 2023
A Response to “Open Letter to Presidents Biden, Putin, and Zelensky: Pursue Diplomatic Solutions to Avoid Nuclear War”
February 2, 2023 A recent editorial letter, “Open Letter to Presidents Biden, Putin, and Zelensky: Pursue Diplomatic Solutions to Avoid Nuclear War,” published in the MIT Faculty Newsletter November/December issue...
Vol.XXXV No. 3January-April 2023
Planning for Commencement 2023
MIT introduced a new format for Commencement last year. Rather than awarding all degrees at a single marathon event on Killian Court, the practice prior to the 2020 and 2021...
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The MIT Faculty Newsletter (FNL) is a publication of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since MIT faculty have neither a faculty senate nor faculty union nor...
Vol. XXXIII No. 4March/April 2021
The Future Founders Initiative: Q&A with Susan Hockfield and Sangeeta Bhatia
In the fall of 2018, three MIT faculty members affiliated with the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research – Sangeeta Bhatia (engineering), Susan Hockfield (president emerita), and Nancy Hopkins (biology...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
The More Challenging DEI – A Befitting Role for MIT
I read with interest MIT’s new DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) plan circulated by the Provost. It is an impressive document and obviously the product of a lot of thought. Unfortunately,...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
What Will Remain Post-Pandemic?
As universities return to in-classroom teaching, what practices that emerged during the pandemic will carry over? While we are all anxious to get back to teaching and working on campus,...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
Don’t Renew the ICBM Force, Eliminate It
A pressing issue that is currently under consideration in Washington, DC is whether to replace the aging deployment of InterContinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) with a new fleet of missiles. The...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
The Role and Reach of the MIT Faculty Newsletter; Thank You
Very few university faculties across the nation have an independent newsletter for their expression. Given that MIT plays a somewhat distinctive role in the national and international academic community, we...