This issue of
the Faculty Newsletter features an open letter to President Reif regarding the Tidbit controversy and President Reif's e-mail to the MIT community.
A variety of important reports were released as this issue was going to press. These include the draft report from the Graduate Student Housing Working Group;
We are writing you as MIT faculty and graduate students whose research creates new technologies, and who teach, advise, and encourage innovative creativity among our undergraduates.
Thank you for your expression of concern for the Tidbit students and for the larger issues their circumstances point to. As you know, we are coordinating with the students and their pro bono lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
At November’s faculty meeting, Professor Jonathan King introduced a motion to establish a new faculty standing committee. As proposed, the Campus Planning . . .
For almost 20 years I have had the good fortune of teaching a freshman seminar. I learned about this program from faculty who worked with Doc Edgerton, who . . .
Former MIT president Charles M. Vest – a tireless advocate for research and science, and a passionate supporter of diversity and openness – died last night . . .
The suggestion by Prof. Emeritus Ernst Frankel in the November/December issue of the Faculty Newsletter regarding nuclear energy [“There is No More Need for Nuclear Power Plants in the USA”] could not be any more wrong.