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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.
Annual Festival of Learning discusses applications of generative artificial intelligence inside and outside of the classroom
Dozens congregated to hear panelists discuss how they implement GenAI in their classrooms or research.
MIT releases 2024 Quality of Life Survey
In an email dated Feb. 15, President Sally Kornbluth encouraged the MIT community to complete the 2024 MIT Quality of Life Survey.
In Memoriam: Igor Paul
Professor Emeritus Igor Paul ’60, SM’61, PhD’64 passed away Dec. 17, 2023 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
In Memoriam: Ken Johnson, Jr.
Ken Johnson Jr., Director of DAPER Communications Promotions and Marketing, passed away on Feb. 12. Johnson was in his eighth season at MIT.
Windy Weekend Ahead, Great Opportunity to Tidy Up
As the spring semester gets underway, we’re warming up a bit but it’s still pretty cold out there. There looks to be rain on Friday and the weekend opens up to some wind, especially on Saturday. With the recent announcement of Health and Safety Inspections to start happening again soon, the wind and rain in the next couple days is a good excuse to stay in and make sure your living space is following all of the guidelines!
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 shut down within hours, all despite Israeli flags lining the windows of the Engineering Building along Massachusetts Avenue for weeks before they were removed.
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 voice for what this war actually looks like.
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.
GTL Italy Taught Me about Finding a Shared Humanity
The truth is that GTL Italy was one of the loneliest times in my life, but also one of the most meaningful experiences I had.
Lessons Learned from Moungi Bawendi’s Nobel Lecture
Even after winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Bawendi says that he still needs to “learn more.”
Celina Zhao ’24 shares her journey in science journalism
Explaining scientific concepts can be hard. But Celina Zhao '24 makes it look easy.
