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Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Push the Pause Button on Teleconference Interviews for New Faculty Hires
Teleconference interviews are unfair to all faculty candidates, especially those with children at home. Evidence is mounting – the brunt of this unfairness falls upon female candidates. Working and Zooming...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Moving MIT Forward; Supporting Our Students in Making Change; Our New Website
Moving MIT Forward MIT’s students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, staff, and administrators are facing the task of renewing education and research under conditions of extraordinary difficulty. There are few...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Mission, Safety, Equity: Navigating Fall 2020 at MIT Libraries
Like you, we in the MIT Libraries find ourselves in a most unusual fall semester. Over the past eight months, we have aimed to balance the research and learning mission...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Beyond Risk Management? How to Learn from MIT’s International Engagements
I was inspired by Richard Lester’s article in the May/June 2020 Faculty Newsletter (“On the Risks and Benefits of New International Engagements”) in which he laid out a comprehensive process...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
MISTI Global Seed Funds Call for Proposals Launched September 14
The MISTI Global Seed Funds program enables participating teams to collaborate with international peers, either at MIT or abroad, to develop and launch joint research projects. MISTI GSF is comprised...
Reactive Cysteines in P22 Tailspike Folding
Susan K. Sather Graduate Student in King Lab from Spring 1989 through Summer 1993 sksather@yahoo.com Meeting Jon I met Jon for the first time when he gave a talk to...
Don’t Fall in Love with Your Hypothesis
Dessy Raytcheva Department of Biology, COS Northeastern University 134 Mugar, 203A 360 Huntington Ave Boston, MA 02115 desislava.raytcheva@gmail.com I was part of the King’s lab family from 2006 until 2012....
Vol. XXXV No. 2November/December 2022
Estimated Global Nuclear Warhead Inventories, 2022
Despite progress in reducing nuclear weapon arsenals since the Cold War, the world’s combined inventory of nuclear warheads remains at a very high level: nine countries possessed roughly 12,700 warheads...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Robert Redwine)
Like many of you, I knew Aron for quite a long time. I knew him a bit before I joined the faculty at MIT, because he was of course already...
Jonathan King: (Louis Kruger)
One of my fondest memories of Jonathan occurred before I interviewed him about the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) for a documentary that I was making. He was an early...