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Vol. XVI No. 3
December / January 2004

This issue includes an editorial on our new look, Faculty Chair Rafael Bras on the presidential selection process, observations on how to grade incomplete work, poems by two MIT professors, two contributions to our ongoing series on research at MIT, two articles about LGBT at the Institute, a piece on recent e-mail changes, our regular OpenCourseWare Update and our M.I.T. Numbers feature devoted to faculty hiring since 1985.

Spotlight

Stata Center - photo credit: Donna Coveney/MIT

Financing MIT
Bob Brown reviews background and details of the Institute budget and endowment.

The Search for a New President
Rafael Bras discusses the beginning of the search for Chuck Vest's replacement.


	Financing MIT Robert A. Brown I am writing this piece during the holiday break while reflecting on both the discussions and decisions over the past nine months that will set the stage for . . .
	Vest to the Faculty Charles M. Vest When I first spoke here in 10-250, it was July 1990, as I was being introduced to the MIT community as your new president. I knew that virtually not a soul in the room . . .
	Editorial Our New Look Welcome to the new Faculty Newsletter. We hope that you find our makeover attractive and elegant, that you will read this and future issues with renewed . . .
	From the Faculty Chair The Search for a New President Rafael L. Bras The search for a new president of MIT is about to begin. It is easy to underestimate how important this choice is. Like all great institutions, MIT is always in search . . .
	Teach Talk Assigning a Final Grade When Some of the Work Has Not Been Completed James Kirtley, Jeff Meldman and Mary Callahan The grades of I (Incomplete) and O (Absent) are sometimes used in a way that is inappropriate, which unduly and unnecessarily complicates the academic . . .
	MIT Poetry Identifying My Father John Hildebidle I'd hoped cremation would avoid this. "But we wouldn't want a mixup . . .
	MIT Poetry A Child's Chore Samuel Jay Keyser Each winter month the coal truck dumped behind our house . . .
	Research at MIT The Laboratory for Nuclear Science June L. Matthews The MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS) was established in 1946, and now, nearly 60 years later, it is still thriving, although its name has become somewhat . . .
	Research at MIT Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) Martha L. Gray and Joseph V. Bonventre Founded more than 30 years ago, the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) is one of the oldest and largest biomedical engineering . . .
	LBGT Issues Lorna Gibson "Can I be bisexual and a faculty member? I know of only 3 gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered faculty in the science and engineering departments . . .
	Trans at the Institute John Southard Just a few years ago I "came out" as a classic, lifelong cross dresser. I'll spare you the details of how that came to be, but I'm on a mission, and I want your attention . . .
	Making the Most of E-Mail: Popular Services, Recent Changes Theresa Regan E-mail is now such an integral part of daily life at the Institute that it may seem predictable and mundane. A lot goes on behind the scenes, however, to maintain . . .
	OpenCourseWare Update OCW as Knight Errant Douglas Morgenstern and Margarita Ribas Groeger OpenCourseWare in the language of Cervantes? Ostensibly a Quixotic enterprise, but with the help of Universia.net, this undertaking has been launched successfully.
	M.I.T. Numbers Individuals Appointed to the Faculty, 1985 to Present Charts of appointments by rank, appointments by gender, and appointments by school.

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