MIT community members honored with 2024 Franklin Institute AwardsNews · Vice Provost Paula Hammond and four others recognized for “dreaming up solutions to global challenges — advancing health, sustainability, and human connection.”
3 Questions: The Climate Project at MITNews · Vice Provost Richard Lester describes an emerging new initiative that will back climate efforts at the Institute and find outside partnerships to drive actionable innovation.
MIT launches website to help with captioning media contentNews · Earlier this year, Provost Martin Schmidt announced the settlement of a lawsuit against MIT brought by the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) over the accessibility of MIT online audio and video content to persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
Update on research administrationNews · Vice Provost Anne White provides an update on the ongoing transformation of MIT's research and sponsored activity enterprise.
Campus safety and policies around protests, postering and free expressionLetters · The provost shares a letter highlighting important policies around postering, protests and free expression.
3 Questions: Defining the Institute’s valuesNews · MIT’s https://valuescommittee.mit.edu/has been charged by Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart and Provost Martin Schmidt with engaging the MIT community in the foundational work of developing a statement of shared values, one that is grounded in universal ideals but also speaks to MIT’s distinctive character and culture.
Agustín Rayo named interim dean of SHASSNews · MIT Provost Martin A. Schmidt has named professor of philosophy Agustín Rayo PhD ’01 as interim dean of MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), effective Aug. 18.
MIT announces 2022 Bose grants for ambitious ideasNews · MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart has announced three Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants to support bold research projects across diverse areas of study including biology, engineering, and the humanities.
Exciting move for Krystyn Van VlietLetters · We write today to announce that Associate Provost and Associate Vice President for Research Krystyn Van Vliet will step down effective October 10, 2022, to serve as the vice president for research and innovation at Cornell University.
Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellows ProgramFunding opportunities · A program that recognizes faculty who have made exemplary and sustained contributions to the teaching and education of undergraduates at MIT.
Women in STEM — A celebration of excellence and curiosityNews · Vice Provost Paula Hammond shared her career journey at a MindHandHeart event.