MIT International Advisory Committee Chair Fotini Christia answers three questions about the committee’s work, the value of what MIT can learn from international partners, and the challenges of academic collaboration in a shifting geopolitical environment.
MIT's African and African Diaspora Studies program invites students to explore the riches of culture, innovation, thought leadership, and beauty that originate in the continent of Africa and its many diasporas.
Peter H. Fisher has announced he will step down as head of the MIT Department of Physics. The MIT professor led the department for eight years, playing pivotal leadership roles at the Institute and in physics research and community-building. He will begin a new role as the head of the Office of Research Computing and Data.
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. The Committee is co-chaired by two MIT alumni: Daniel Hastings SM ’78, PhD ’80, head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Cecil and Ida Green Education Professor, and Tracy Gabridge ’88, deputy director of the MIT Libraries. They spoke with MIT News about ideas and themes that are emerging in the committee’s conversations, and the process of creating a statement that reflects the voices and values of the MIT community.