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Jonathan King: (Frank Clemente)
Not writing a poem since grade school It seems like an odd time to restart I take the risk of looking like a fool But instead I think I’m quite...
Jonathan King: (Louis Kruger)
One of my fondest memories of Jonathan occurred before I interviewed him about the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) for a documentary that I was making. He was an early...
Jonathan King: (Jill Nelson)
Jonathan King has been a mentor in so many areas to so many people in his life. I am one of them. When I moved to Boston in the early...
Jonathan King: (Bruce Parry)
I’ve known Jon for about 40 years. I’ve always called him Jon, not Jonathan. He never corrected me, so to this day I don’t really know which he prefers. I...
Autostery, Quasi-equivalence, and Procapsid Assembly. From Brandeis to MIT.
Peter E. Prevelige Jr. Professor Dept. of Microbiology, BBRB 416/6 Univ. of Alabama @ Birmingham 845 19th St. South Birmingham AL. 35294-2170 Phone 205 266-8383 prevelig@uab.edu http://www.preveligelab.org My interest in...
Vol. XXXV No. 2November/December 2022
Never Mind the Firehose, You Can’t Even Lead Them to Water
I’m co-teaching this semester and have been attending my co-instructor’s lectures. I’ve been sitting behind the students and observing how they are engaging. It’s not pretty. My rough estimates are...
Vol. XXXV No. 2November/December 2022
Avoiding Nuclear War
Sixty years ago, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world close to nuclear war. At present, threats by North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, former US President Donald Trump, and most recently...
From Building Model Airplanes to Learning How Viruses and Complex Proteins are Built, at MIT, with Many Partners
Jonathan King Professor of Molecular Biology, Emeritus Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA jaking@MIT.edu Early Years in Brooklyn When I was three years old I contracted polio, affecting my knees....
Vol.XXXV No. 3January-April 2023
A Response to “Open Letter to Presidents Biden, Putin, and Zelensky: Pursue Diplomatic Solutions to Avoid Nuclear War”
February 2, 2023 A recent editorial letter, “Open Letter to Presidents Biden, Putin, and Zelensky: Pursue Diplomatic Solutions to Avoid Nuclear War,” published in the MIT Faculty Newsletter November/December issue...
Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
Congratulations to our Graduates of the Years of the Pandemic
MIT’s Faculty values and takes particular pride in the accomplishments of your Class of 2023, who have overcome unprecedented stresses in the path to graduation. Many of us find it...