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3 weeks ago |
thetech.com | Alex Tang
Khoury has served in various leadership capacitiesIn an email to the MIT community on May 6, Provost Cynthia Barnhart SM ’86, Ph.D. ’88 announced that Professor Philip Khoury will step down as Vice Provost of the Arts on Aug. 31.
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1 month ago |
thetech.com | Vivian Hir |Sabine Chu |Alex Tang
Kornbluth: “I really believe that science and technology — the R&D investments that have been made in universities in partnership with the government — are the key drivers of American success”On April 30, The Tech interviewed President Sally Kornbluth with a focus on federal funding cuts affecting the Institute’s finances and research efforts in fields such as the life sciences and climate science.
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1 month ago |
thetech.com | Alex Tang
Current lawsuit parallels earlier response to cuts to National Institutes of Health fundingOn April 14, MIT President Sally Kornbluth wrote in an email to the MIT community that the Institute had joined several peer schools and higher education associations in a lawsuit to stop indirect cost cuts to grants provided via the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
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1 month ago |
thetech.com | Alex Tang
Dr. G. Anthony Grant: “This is a devastating loss for our athletics department and for the MIT community”Karenna Groff ’22 MEng ’23 and James Santoro ’23 passed away in a private plane accident on April 12. Four others on board also passed, including Groff’s parents, Dr. Michael Groff and Dr. Joy Saini; her brother Jared and his partner, Alexia Couyutas Duarte. Groff majored in Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and earned her MEng from the same department.
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2 months ago |
thetech.com | Alex Tang
Grodzins was a pioneer in nuclear physics research and a science policy advocateLee Grodzins, Professor Emeritus in Physics, died on March 6 at the age of 98. Grodzins was a pioneer in nuclear physics research. A talented experimentalist, Grodzins determined the helicity of the neutrino, an electrically neutral particle that interacts only through gravity and a fundamental force known as the weak interaction. Grodzins came to MIT in 1959 and was a faculty member for 40 years.
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