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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
Leadership, Management, and Education at MIT (redux)
This article is based on Professor Eagar’s original 2004 article (MIT Faculty Newsletter, Vol. XVI No. 5, April/May 2004) with new thoughts added by Professor Alex Slocum. Both are senior...
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
Open Letter to MIT Faculty from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research
November 4, 2021 Dear Colleagues: As faculty in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), we study a wide range of work and employment relations topics, including union-management...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Letter By 77 Faculty Re: Professor Abbot’s Lecture Cancellation
We, a group of concerned Faculty, believe that the cancellation of the scheduled EAPS Carlson Lecture by invited speaker Professor Dorian Abbot of the University of Chicago casts a shadow...
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...