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From Mississippi to MIT and Beyond
Jerry L. Bryant jerryleeb@me.com The story of my time in the King Lab is a little unique in that I was the first African American to join the lab and...
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
Scholarly Publisher Contracts and New Benefits for MIT Authors
MIT has been using the Framework for Publisher Contracts to guide negotiations with scholarly publishers for more than two years. This principles-based framework aims to support the needs of scholars,...
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
New Commencement Format for 2022
MIT’s student population has grown in recent decades, and with it, the number of graduates participating in Commencement has increased. In 2019, 3,556 students received degrees. That represented a 26...
Vol. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
from the 2022 MIT Quality of Life Survey
Main Campus Employees and Students Source: Office of the Provost/Institutional Research...
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
On Closing the MIT Pharmacy
The stark statement announcing the closing of the MIT Pharmacy was like pouring concrete over green grass. Stunned silence – powerful and persistent – has been followed by disbelief, disappointment,...
Vol. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
On the Closing of the MIT Pharmacy
To The Faculty Newsletter: I very much agree with this op/ed (“On Closing the MIT Pharmacy“). The closing of the MIT pharmacy was a real shock to me. It comes...
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
Congratulations to our Graduates of the Years of the Pandemic
MIT’s Faculty honors and takes particular pride in the accomplishments and resilience of the Class of 2022. You have had to navigate and overcome the unprecedented stresses of these recent...
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...
Vol. XXXIV No. 5May/June 2022
Project Indigenous MIT
In October 2021, a committee led by Professor Dan Hastings issued MIT’s “Values Statement.” Their committee, absent of Native/Indigenous participants, issued a statement that suggests that we at MIT will:...