President Kornbluth Announces $75 Million Funded Climate Project
President Sally Kornbluth announced the Climate Project at MIT, a $75 million effort to power initiatives in decarbonization, climate renewal, and community and policy advancement.
Ukraine@MIT holds memorial for Ukrainian students
On Feb. 26, Ukraine@MIT held a memorial at Lobby 13 for Ukraine students who lost their lives during the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began over two years ago.
An introduction from Karl W. Reid ’84, SM ’85: MIT’s new Vice President for Equity and Inclusion
In an Institute Community & Equity Office newsletter, Karl W. Reid ’84, SM ’85, MIT’s first Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, introduced himself to the MIT community with a note titled, “Coming Full Circle.” Reid highlighted his long ties to the Institute, from his past leadership positions to his upbringing.
Graduate Junction Licensing Center opens at MIT
Graduate Junction Licensing Center opens at MIT
McCormick Hall due for renovation in summer 2025
McCormick Hall due for renovation in summer 2025
Protestors march from Cambridge City Hall to MIT calling for end to Israeli intervention in Gaza
The nationwide event, titled “Hands Off Rafah,” came after the Israeli government announced that its forces would move into Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip.
In Memoriam: Edward B. Roberts ’58 SM ‘58 SM ‘60 PhD ‘62
Professor Edward Roberts ’58, SM ’58, SM ’60, PhD ’62, of the Sloan School of Management, passed away on Feb. 27.
March showers… bring April flowers?
Don’t be tricked by recent warm weather — despite temperatures nearly reaching the sixties earlier this week, make sure to keep dressing warm and dry as the next few days cool down again. Expect a variety of precipitation this weekend all the way from intermittent snow flurries tonight to warm(ish) showers on Sunday. High winds accompany the onslaught of midterms coming up this and next week, so try your best to keep both feet on the ground and not blown away in the current. Hopefully, after enduring a variety of ups and downs in our weather recently, we’ll be able to enjoy an early spring to save us from more gloomy weather. Fingers crossed!
Isaac Dobie ’27 captures NEWMAC Men’s Basketball Rookie of the Year
Isaac Dobie ’27, from Kitty Hawk, N.C., was named the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Men's Basketball Rookie of the Year for the 2023-34 season, making him the seventh Engineer to claim the honor.
In Kiss the Future, we find a U2 that’s much less corporate and crusty than today’s
With only the context of their auto-downloaded album and Sphere residency, I was pleasantly surprised by the more youthful, relatively revolutionary U2 in this new film, a thoughtful, serious piece of historical journalism on a largely forgotten war.
Anyone but You would have been loved more by anyone but me
People who like rom-coms would have probably loved this movie, but I stand by my belief that when you watch one rom-com, you have watched all of them.
Translation, colonialism, and nothing happening: Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang
Babel reads like a world-building reference that Kuang will use to write a better, more interesting novel later.
E. coli doesn’t just cause Doom and mayhem in your guts
From microwaves to pregnancy tests, Ramlan is just continuing the tradition of “Doom running on everything.”
New genetics of the inactive X chromosome reveals its surprisingly active role in the cell
The sex chromosome has been misunderstood for nearly sixty years. Researchers at the Whitehead Institute are working to restore its reputation.
A Bavarian MIT?
In Fall 2023, Bavaria attracted over 7.2 million visitors, solidifying its status as a dream destination. These figures set a new milestone for the Munich Wiesn, the internationally acclaimed Oktoberfest. Equally record-breaking, and a hot topic for study abroad programs, is the ascendance of Bavaria's Technical University of Munich (TUM). For several years, TUM has been heralded as Germany's leading university, consistently securing top spots in the Shanghai Ranking, QS, and THE, with its graduates being ranked 13th worldwide in employer esteem. Despite Germany's innovation economy having a hard time, TUM students have consistently produced successful high-growth startups, prompting a question: What's going on in the land of Dirndl, Lederhosen, and why does it matter to MIT?
From the River to the Sea to Every Mountain Top
Some of my fellow MIT students take issue with the chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” But do you know what actually exists from the river to the sea? A fractured patchwork of different political jurisdictions, within which about seven million Palestinians live without the same basic rights as seven million Jews.
MLK Jr. Gala Action & Remarks
Let us remember the words of Dr. King: “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
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Feb. 26. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of University of California Berkeley School of Law, will hold a panel is titled: “Campus Freedom of Expression: Antisemitism and Current Controversies.” This is the second panel in the series Dialogues Across Differences.
MIT suspends the Coalition Against Apartheid
Kornbluth’s administration suspends the CAA for violating Institute policy.
Dialogues Across Differences: Pamela Nadell hosts panel on understanding antisemitism
Nadell’s panel on Antisemitism consisted of her talk followed by a fireside chat with Vice Provost Richard Lester and a subsequent Q&A session with the audience.
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MIT suspends the Coalition Against Apartheid
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Dialogues Across Differences: Pamela Nadell hosts panel on understanding antisemitism
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Annual Festival of Learning discusses applications of generative artificial intelligence inside and outside of the classroom
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MIT releases 2024 Quality of Life Survey
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In Memoriam: Igor Paul
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In Memoriam: Ken Johnson, Jr.
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Growing concerns about the safety of the MIT community
We have watched with disappointment and unease over the past weeks as the Institute has reacted disproportionately to student activists, as it stifled the voices of our student community members, and as the Coalition Against Apartheid’s guest posts on the MIT Student Life Instagram page led to the page being...
DEI Bureaucracy Fails the Stress Test
Before we create another misguided bureaucracy—and particularly before we select the next Institute Community and Equity Officer, this failure of the existing administrative offices should be recognized by an immediate hiring freeze and a thorough examination of these programs by an objective outside party.
The ASA Should De-Recognize Groups that Deliberately Violate MIT’s Content-Neutral Policies
The resulting course of action that the ASA Board must take is clear: investigation and, if (presumably) appropriate, de-recognition of the CAA.
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Growing concerns about the safety of the MIT community
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DEI Bureaucracy Fails the Stress Test
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The ASA Should De-Recognize Groups that Deliberately Violate MIT’s Content-Neutral Policies
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Speaking out Against Genocide in Palestine and Repression of Free Speech on MIT’s Campus
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Calls for ‘Intifada’ Are Traumatizing MIT’s Jewish Community
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Smartphones and Cigarettes Go Hand in Hand
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Clarity from Christians at MIT
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Fussy, delightful prose, and convincing folklore: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
In this romantic historical fantasy, Fawcett sharpens whimsy to a swordpoint with an endearing stuffy faerie lore researcher, a capricious dandy love interest, and sentences that make you laugh out loud.
20 Days in Mariupol is a harrowing account of Ukrainian suffering at the hands of Russia
ears after the documentary was filmed, the war rages on, having killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians (including civilians) and displaced 10 million more. Yet American politicians still debate the validity of Russia's invasion or the need for international aid to Ukraine, making 20 Days in Mariupol a critical, grounding...
A beautifully rendered masterpiece: Ólafsson performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations
A classical concert may not be everyone’s top choice for a weekend diversion. However, it should be.
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Fussy, delightful prose, and convincing folklore: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
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20 Days in Mariupol is a harrowing account of Ukrainian suffering at the hands of Russia
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A beautifully rendered masterpiece: Ólafsson performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations
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Musical Theatre Guild brings to life Chicago’s razzle and dazzle
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Corpses, bad name-based puns, and 100 pages too many: The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen
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Mu Lan Taiwanese Restaurant: a great Cambridge dining staple
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A little heavy on the Kool-Aid: The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey
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Uncovering secrets at the bottom of Earth’s oceans
From sharks that can live for up to 400 years to microbes that could be the evolutionary ancestors of all complex life on Earth: if we’ve learned anything about Earth’s oceans in the past decade, it’s how little we really know. When each year brings a new and unexpected find,...
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Lessons Learned from Moungi Bawendi’s Nobel Lecture
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Celina Zhao ’24 shares her journey in science journalism
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Uncovering secrets at the bottom of Earth’s oceans
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Can scientists mimic the benefits of CBD without using cannabis?
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Being pre-med at MIT: Chloe McCreery ’23 and Joanna Lin ’23
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Silicon Souls: Priming beliefs about AI in chatbot conversations
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MIT Free Speech Alliance assembles a panel to debate whether STEM is systemically racist
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