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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. XXXIV No. 1September/October 2021
Praise the Vaccines, Producers, and Public Funding
Though the death toll in the U.S. from Covid-19 has passed 700,000, the rapid and intense mobilization of vaccine producers is saving hundreds of thousands of other lives. Kudos to...
Vol. XXXIV No. 1September/October 2021
Immediate Priorities for Housing Justice in the Massachusetts State Legislature
Most MIT faculty tend to pay attention to the federal budget, which funds NIH, NSF, DOE, and other major granting agencies. However, thousands of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty...
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...
Adventures of a Computational Scientist in the King Lab
Russell Schwartz Professor and Head, Computational Biology Department Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA russells@andrew.cmu.edu Introduction Although I was not in...
From Mississippi to MIT and Beyond
Jerry L. Bryant jerryleeb@me.com The story of my time in the King Lab is a little unique in that I was the first African American to join the lab and...