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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...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Bolek Wyslouch)
We are gathered here today to celebrate the life of a passionate physicist and humanitarian, our dear colleague Aron Bernstein. Aron was one of the pillars of the Laboratory for...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Robert Redwine)
Like many of you, I knew Aron for quite a long time. I knew him a bit before I joined the faculty at MIT, because he was of course already...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Richard Milner)
Physicist I recall first meeting Aron at the Intersections Conference in Rockport, Maine on May 14-19, 1987. He and I collaborated on pioneering experiments to measure spin-dependent electron scattering from...
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 (Dan Bernstein)
I want to thank Bob Redwine and the event coordinators for organizing this memorial and both the Department and MIT for honoring my father. All of you here today know...
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...
Vol.XXXV No. 3January-April 2023
A Response to the Article by the Coalition Against Apartheid
A recent Faculty Newsletter (Vol. XXXV No. 1; September/October 2022) included a two-page article entitled “Palestine, MIT, and Free Speech: A Letter from Student Activists to Our Professors” alleging encumbrances...
Vol.XXXV No. 3January-April 2023
Candidates for Upcoming Election to Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board
The MIT Faculty Newsletter has represented the views of MIT faculty for almost 35 years. Since its inception, the Newsletter has been maintained by a volunteer Editorial Board, over time...
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
MIT Opens Learning for Refugees
It’s December 2016, and I’ve just arrived in the port town of Pozzallo in Sicily, where I am watching a group of boys playing soccer. The boys are animated and...