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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...
A Marine Photosynthetic Pair: Synechococcus WH8109 and Cyanophage Syn5
Jacqueline Piret, PhD j.piret@northeastern.edu I had the good fortune to spend time in the King Lab as a visitor from across the river. I had earned my Ph.D. (1981) at...
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...
Vol.XXXV No. 3January-April 2023
Some Thoughts on the Decline of Students’ Focus
I too have observed a steady decline in focus of students. (See: “Never Mind the Firehose, You Can’t Even Lead Them to Water,” MIT Faculty Newsletter, November/December 2022.) Adding insult...
Autostery, Quasi-equivalence, and Procapsid Assembly. From Brandeis to MIT.
Peter E. Prevelige Jr. Professor Dept. of Microbiology, BBRB 416/6 Univ. of Alabama @ Birmingham 845 19th St. South Birmingham AL. 35294-2170 Phone 205 266-8383 prevelig@uab.edu http://www.preveligelab.org My interest in...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Transforming Research Administration: Second Update
Earlier this year, we provided a progress report on MIT’s work to transform its research and sponsored activity enterprise to meet the needs of principal investigators (PIs) in a changing...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Encourage Your Students to Vote
Dear Fellow Faculty, In 1998, the Higher Education Act was amended to require universities to make a good faith effort to encourage student voter registration. At MIT, 72% of eligible...