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Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
Reflections on the MIT Graduate Student Union Organizing Campaign
For those of us teaching and researching industrial relations to have a union organizing campaign unfolding where we work is amazing and engaging. I have been at MIT since 1980...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
MIT’s Endowment Returns and Fossil Fuels
To the Faculty Newsletter: The announcement on October 14 of MIT’s spectacular endowment returns frames a question: How much less spectacular might the return have been if MIT had been...
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 &...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Is MIT Losing Control of its Own Destiny?
Most people will take for granted that MIT is currently the most preeminent technical university in the world, and that it will remain so for the foreseeable future. Its prestige...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression
Academic freedom and the right to freedom of speech or expression are related, but distinct. The legal right to freedom of speech only limits the state (originally only Congress) from...
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...
A Scientific Journey with Professor Jonathan A. King to Uncover Bacteriophage Assembly Process by Pushing the Boundaries of Cryogenic Electron Microscopy and Tomography
Wah Chiu Wallenberg-Bienenstock Professor Stanford University, Stanford, California wahc@stanford.edu For nearly 40 years, I have known Jonathan King through our collaboration on cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) of bacteriophages. In the...
Phage Transition: Spatial Organization of Phage Assembly
Christopher Bazinet bazinetc@stjohns.edu I came to MIT as a fresh grad student in the fall of 1979. Four years out of undergrad, I had spent a couple of years teaching,...
Amino Acid Side Chains Directing Tailspike Folding, Assembly and Maturation
Scott Betts scottbetts1@gmail.com I first met Jon King in 1995 after I invited him to travel to The University of Michigan to talk about his P22 tailspike research. At the...