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XVI No.
5 April / May 2004 |
This issue features a Faculty Policy Committee white paper on the representation of minorities on the faculty and in the graduate student body, a report on research at the Haystack Observatory (pictured below), and an article on security on campus by the director of security.
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| Leadership, Management, and Education at MIT Tom Eagar reflects on what makes MIT the leader it is, and how to keep it that way. |
| MIT's Not-So-Green Buildings Leon Glicksman and Les Norford comment on the environmental efficacy of two of our new buildings. |
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From the Faculty Chair
In the last Faculty Newsletter, I discussed issues related to faculty governance. In that article I wrote: "The Faculty Policy Committee, the over-arching committee in the . . . |
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The world looks to MIT for leadership. And this leadership is not limited to science and technology, as was demonstrated forcefully several years ago . . . |
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Since the last report from the Schools in 2001, there has been a small change in the number of women at Sloan. |
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In 2001, the Committee on Women Faculty in the School of Architecture and Planning completed its report on the status of women faculty. That same year, the provost . . . |
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Research at MIT How many people at the Institute know that MIT, together with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, has what has been defined as "the top graduate . . . |
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Research at MIT Neuroscience today is on the cusp of a great adventure. The tools of the field have advanced rapidy in the past few years, and the big research questions have been . . . |
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There have been recent articles about the Stata building in The New York Times and Technology Review, describing it as one of the new green buildings in Cambridge. |
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MIT Poetry
– Roy Horn, trainer and illusionist, attacked by his own white tiger at the Las Vegas Mirage hotel. |
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MIT Poetry
In the end, somebody always has to look. / No matter the risk, the worrying fear, someone has to stand at the door, seeing for herself what's there. |
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Research at MIT
Haystack Observatory is a multidisciplinary research center engaged in radio astronomy, geodesy, and upper atmospheric physics. |
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The Faculty Committee on the Library System has been monitoring changes in the pricing and distribution business practices of scholarly journals . . . |
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Since the terrorist attacks, there has been an important shift in people's attitudes toward security measures, because the need for them is much clearer now. |
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OpenCourseWare Update When MIT first announced OpenCourseWare in April 2001, it was just an idea – an informed leap of faith that it would be the right thing to do and that it would advance . . . |
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Back in November I had the pleasure of hosting sculptor/mathematician/computer scientist George W. Hart through the MIT Office of the Arts' Artist-in-Residence . . . |
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