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Vol. XXXV No. 2November/December 2022
Estimated Global Nuclear Warhead Inventories, 2022
Despite progress in reducing nuclear weapon arsenals since the Cold War, the world’s combined inventory of nuclear warheads remains at a very high level: nine countries possessed roughly 12,700 warheads...
Vol. XXXV No. 2November/December 2022
Open Letter to Presidents Biden, Putin, and Zelensky: Pursue Diplomatic Solutions to Avoid Nuclear War
Please sign this letter from college and university faculty and staffs. Sixty years ago, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world close to nuclear war. At present, threats to launch...
Vol. XXXV No. 2November/December 2022
MITx Update for MIT Faculty: Fall 2022
November 16, 2022 marked one year since the sale of edX, the nonprofit organization launched by MIT and Harvard in 2012 to provide an open online platform for university courses,...
Unique Fluorescence Property of Human gamma-Crystallins
Jiejin Chen, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Takeda Pharmaceutical Cambridge, MA 02139 jiejinc@gmail.com Will Never Forget . . . . Jon took me to his lab as a graduate student and guided...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Peter Fisher)
Aron Bernstein was one of the very few truly happy people I knew....
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....
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
Campus Research Revenues
This graphic shows campus research revenues as percentages by sponsor type, averaged over five fiscal years, 2017-2021....
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
An Update on Research Administration
Over the years, two overarching trends have added to the research administration complexity faced by principal investigators at MIT. First, the fraction of research funding that comes from non-federal sources,...
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
Clarification Needed on MIT’s Commitment to Freedom of Speech
To The Faculty Newsletter: The long statement by Professors Eduardo Kausel and John Williams (“Is MIT Losing Control of its Own Destiny?”, MIT Faculty Newsletter, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2) is...