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XXXII No.
1 September / October 2019 |
This issue of the Faculty Newsletter features extended commentary on the recent revelations regarding the MIT Media Lab and related issues. There is also new Faculty Chair Rick Danheiser's initial offering and an In Memoriam for long-time FNL Editorial Board member Patrick Winston.
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| The MIT-Nepal Initiative: Four Years On An update on MIT's response to the devasting earthquake in Nepal. |
| Two Donors, Two Deaths, Two Responses The dramatically different ways the Institute dealt with the passing of David Koch and Jeffrey Epstein. |
| A Case for Mid-Semester Feedback Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz promotes mid-semester course evaluations. |
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Editorial The Institute faculty meeting held Wednesday, September 18 was electric and historic, filling the Sala de Puerto Rico with both faculty and observers. The meeting almost . . . |
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Revelations over the past several weeks have left many at MIT feeling unwilling accomplices in the harming of children and the degradation of women. |
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On 25 April 2015, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale struck the South Asian country of Nepal, killing over 9,000 people and injuring more than . . . |
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From the Faculty Chair
In november of 2001, 958 members of the
MIT faculty (all tenure track faculty) were invited bo the Office
of the Provost to complete the HERI faculty survey.
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We write as senior women faculty members (current and emerita) of MIT to share our deep distress over the MIT/Epstein revelations and our profound disappointment . . . |
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Whereas, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is committed to developing and maintaining an ethical environment in which faculty, students, and staff are . . . |
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It is difficult to know what to do. The senior leadership team must have found it difficult to balance pros and cons of taking money from Epstein, the Kingdom of Saudi . . . |
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As we write, the story of the MIT Media Lab’s connection to Jeffrey Epstein is front page news. Not long after Epstein’s death, it transpired that our Media Lab had . . . |
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In Memoriam Patrick Winston, a beloved professor and computer scientist at MIT, died on July 19 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was 76. |
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This past spring, the Registrar’s Office, in collaboration with Institutional Research, prepared and administered a classroom survey to 798 lecturing faculty. |
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Starting in fall 2019, all undergraduate students applying for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) will be asked to sign an Inventions . . . |
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Faculty and instructors are likely most familiar with end-of-term evaluations. While incredibly useful, they are not designed to address a need I’ve heard about from . . . |
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Plans for the Hayden Library renovation are proceeding apace; our vision for a more inclusive and accessible library space for MIT that enables more learning, . . . |
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Provost Martin Schmidt is calling for nominations of faculty as 2020 MacVicar Faculty Fellows.The MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program recognizes MIT faculty who . . . |
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