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Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
Statement by MIT Faculty in Support of the Student Encampment on Kresge Lawn
As the Alliance of Concerned Faculty at MIT we support and affirm our students’ right to peaceful political expression and support their rights to free speech. We thus express our...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
Non-Native English-Speaking Graduate Students Still Face Significant Disadvantages
Almost half of MIT graduate students arrive from outside the United States and immediately enter a communication-intensive culture here in which they must understand lectures, read voluminous amounts of material,...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
The News You Get From Poems
Many things are up in the air this week, and the Newsletter’s mode of static publication at a set, future time seems especially ill-suited to current conditions. I certainly feel...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
New Transportation Connectivity Has Roots at MIT
The $2 billion Allston Multimodal Project has just received a $335 million federal grant for connecting communities, giving the project new momentum and increased credibility. The key innovative conceptual element...
Vol. XXXVI No. 5May/June 2024
The Danger of Nuclear Weapons and the Efforts at MIT to Reduce the Threats
The danger of the use of nuclear weapons in conflicts between countries on Earth is difficult to overstate. There are currently nine countries (United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom, France,...
Vol. XXXVII No. 1September/October 2024
Trend of Women Faculty, Postdocs, and Students
Source: Office of the Provost/Institutional Research...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
MITx SPOCs for Gaza
In the course of its current campaign against Palestine, Israel has systematically demolished the once thriving educational infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. More than 10,000 university students from Gaza have...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
Work for This Fall and Winter
The last Institute faculty meeting included some lively discussion of two very big topics: learning and process goals for the undergraduate academic program that might be used to guide a...
Vol. XXXVII No. 3January/February 2025
Setting the Record Straight
In his article in the last issue of the Faculty Newsletter, The Pulse Update, (Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, November/ December 2024), Prof. Yossi Sheffi writes “It [the FNL] also betrays...