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Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Lessons on Governance from Yale
A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Len Gutkin, “The Review: The Report Yale Doesn’t Want You to See” (August 22, 2022) is very illuminating about how...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Concern with MIT’s Response to Professor Abbot
To The Faculty Newsletter: As a mother of a 2015 graduate, I fully agree with the opinions of Dr. Geil, and with the open letter. We had sent our son...
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. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
No New Cold – or Hot – War!
The Increased Danger of Nuclear War The world is awash in nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. This stark statement includes Russian missiles, British missiles, French missiles, Pakistani missiles, Indian missiles,...
Vol. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
MIT and a Green New Deal for Cambridge
MIT was founded in 1861, at the start of the war over slavery, to catalyze the Industrial Revolution in America. In that regard it has been spectacularly successful. Industrialization itself...
Science is Collaborative and Communication is Key: Lessons from my Postdoc in the King Lab
Kelly Knee King lab postdoc 2007-2011 Director of Translational Medicine, Rare Disease Research Unit, Pfizer Inc. 32 Bartlett Crescent, Brookline MA, 02446 Kelly.Knee@pfizer.com There are a number of things that...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Improving MIT’s Written Commitment to Freedom of Expression
There is no single place in MIT’s official documentation where the Institute’s commitment to free expression on campus for all community members is clearly and prominently set out. Policies &...
Ulrich Laemmli’s Development of SDS Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
Jonathan King Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 jaking@mit.edu One of the most widely used and important techniques in modern biology is SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis....