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Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Palestine, MIT, and Free Speech: A Letter from Student Activists to Our Professors
We are the MIT Coalition Against Apartheid (CAA), a student group that is the product of years of advocacy efforts by Palestinians and Palestinian rights activists. The CAA first began...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Nominate a Colleague as a MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Provost Cynthia Barnhart is calling for nominations of faculty as 2023 MacVicar Faculty Fellows. The MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program recognizes MIT faculty who have made exemplary and sustained contributions to...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Request for Innovative Curricular Projects; The Alex and Brit d’Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education
The Office of the Vice Chancellor is soliciting wide-ranging proposals to support larger-scale ambitious projects designed to strengthen MIT undergraduate education and curricula, and enrich the academic experience of our...
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...
Vol. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
Faculty-Corporation Engagement in the Triangle of MIT’s System of Shared Governance
Why MIT’s system of shared governance works Engineers know about the strength of a triangle. It is a shape that is not easily distorted under pressure. Structures that use them...
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
from the MIT 2021 Commuter Survey
Limited to respondents who answered mode of travel for all five days of the week. Data as of October 2021. Source: Office of the Provost/Institutional Research...
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...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Avoiding Corporate Conflict of Interest Among MIT Leadership
After initially resisting such calls, Boston’s Dana Farber Cancer Institute recently enacted strict new rules to avoid conflicts of interest in which Board of Trustees members might profit from investments...