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Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Strengths and Weaknesses of an MIT Education
To The Faculty Newsletter: Thomas Eagar and Alex Slocum nicely outlined some of MIT’s best qualities (“Leadership, Management and Education at MIT, redux“, MIT Faculty Newsletter, May/June 2022). I am...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Response to “Project Indigenous MIT”
To: David Shane Lowry From: Heather Lechtman; director, Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology [CMRAE] Date: 14 June 2022 Hello David Shane Lowry I write in response to...
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. 2November/December 2022
How Deep is Your Love of Free Expression?
Who among us has not, at one point or another, entertained the heretical thought that MIT faculty meetings can sometimes seem like less than scintillating affairs? Let those without sin...
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...
Jonathan King: (Edward L. Loechler)
I have been a Professor of Biology at Boston University since 1984. I have published 80+ scientific articles in my field of specialization: how chemicals cause cancer. I closed my...
Jonathan King: (Lisa Guisbond)
I’ve had the great good fortune to work with Jonathan in many contexts, beginning with the anti-MCAS movement in the late 1990s, when I first experienced the way he combined...