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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. 5May/June 2021
Lily Tsai New Chair of the Faculty
Lily L. Tsai, Ford Professor of Political Science, will succeed Rick Danheiser as Chair of the Faculty on July 1, 2021. Lily has served as Chair-Elect during the current academic...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
A Look Back and a Look Ahead
In this, my final column as Chair of the Faculty, I take a look back at some of the key contributions and accomplishments of Faculty Governance during these past most...
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. 4March/April 2021
Methodological Appendix
Our project encompassed five operational phases between July 2019-August 2020. The overall design and management of the study was led by Dr. Teresa Nelson and the data collection team and...
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...