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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. 1September/October 2022
Faculty and Staff Views on the Choice of the Next MIT President: A Recap of Last Spring’s Faculty Newsletter Zoom Forum
On May 24, 2022, the Faculty Newsletter hosted a Zoom forum on the selection of the next president of MIT. Following is an abbreviated version of that presentation. Introduction Jonathan...
Vol. XXXV No. 1September/October 2022
Faculty Newsletter Business
Upcoming Editorial Board Elections Later this fall, we will be holding elections for new members of the Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board. As always, these elections will be held electronically, and...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Susan Goldhor)
Aron was as close as you can get to being self-made. He grew up in a financially, intellectually and culturally impoverished family. The things that he loved and that defined...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Jonathan King)
As the ranks of MITs nuclear disarmament ranks thinned, with the passing away of Herman Feshbach, Vicki Weisskopf, and Phillip Morrison, Aron informally took over the effort to keep nuclear...
A Long and Winding (Collaborative) Bacteriophage Road
Sherwood Casjens Professor Emeritus School of Biological Science University of Utah sherwood.casjens@path.utah.edu As my time as a graduate student at Stanford University working on bacteriophage lambda waned, I thought I...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
My Soviet Past: Why We Need to be Vigilant About Academic Freedom
In September of this year, MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences decided to cancel the prestigious Carlson Lecture, which was going to be delivered by Professor Dorian Abbot....
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
Distracted Driving: Finding a Realistic Solution
Internet-based communications technology has advanced at a remarkable pace in the last two decades and, like other rapidly emerging technologies, has presented new challenges to privacy, health and safety, and...