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Vol. XXXIII No. 2November/December 2020
MIT’s Plan for the Spring Semester
On November 2, 2020, I wrote to the MIT community to share our current plan for the spring semester. I reiterated the principles that guided our decision-making, described the lessons...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
The Ad Hoc Committees on Principles and Processes
The Ad Hoc Committee to Review MIT Gift Processes, which we call the Process Committee, was convened in mid-October 2019 by Provost Marty Schmidt. At the same time, Faculty Chair...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Improvements in Policies for Promotion and Tenure are Overdue
How can we improve MIT’s promotion and tenure processes? This has been a priority on my agenda since the beginning of my term as Chair of the Faculty. In the...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Highlights from the MIT 2020 Quality of Life Survey
MIT has administered five major Quality of Life (QOL) surveys. The first survey of faculty and staff was run by the ad hoc Committee on Work and Family in 1989....
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...
Amino Acid Side Chains Directing Tailspike Folding, Assembly and Maturation
Scott Betts scottbetts1@gmail.com I first met Jon King in 1995 after I invited him to travel to The University of Michigan to talk about his P22 tailspike research. At the...
A Scientific Journey with Professor Jonathan A. King to Uncover Bacteriophage Assembly Process by Pushing the Boundaries of Cryogenic Electron Microscopy and Tomography
Wah Chiu Wallenberg-Bienenstock Professor Stanford University, Stanford, California wahc@stanford.edu For nearly 40 years, I have known Jonathan King through our collaboration on cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) of bacteriophages. In the...