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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. 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. 5May/June 2021
What’s In a Name?
This isn’t a business-as-usual donor recognition story. The Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) is of course delighted to acknowledge Shell for making a gift to support the...
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...
1986-1988 – A Visitor From a Strange Land
Richard Willson Huffington-Woestemeyer Professor Professor of Biochemical & Biophysical Science William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Houston willson@uh.edu Sometime in 1986 I was standing in...
Developing Human gD-crystallins as an Experimental System for Studying Beta Sheet Folding and Cataract FormationM
Melissa Kosinski-Collins Melissa S. Kosinski-Collins, Ph.D. Professor of Biology Brandeis University MS 008, SSC 016A Waltham, MA 02454 kosinski@brandeis.edu The first time I met Jonathan, I was 21. I was...
Protein Folding and Aggregation, Mentoring, and a Molecular Food Recipe
Anna Mitraki Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Technology University of Crete and affiliated Research Scientist at IESL, FORTH Greece mitraki@materials.uoc.gr Alexander the Great in a historical statement,...