Ferguson, MIT

This summer rushed by for me like a video put on fast-forward until the nation pushed the pause button following the tragic August 9 killing of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. What followed was not quite an instant replay of previous deaths of African Americans, but the similarities with past
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Elite Male Faculty Employ Fewer Women

My title has removed the words "in the Life Sciences" from the title of a paper published June 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  While I do not have statistics to demonstrate the universality of this conclusion, I do have some relevant experience and connections to the work to
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July 1, 2014 is the one-year anniversary of my start as MIT’s first Institute Community and Equity Officer, a new position created to advance equity and inclusion across the entire MIT campus community. It has been a wonderful year of learning, and I have been fortunate to be granted the time to deepen
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