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The MIT First Generation/Low Income (FLI) Program, part of the Undergraduate Advising Center that provides support for undergraduates who are the first in their family to go to college and/or are low-income, is steadily expanding its programs and services.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology The classroom in fall 2020 looked very different than it did when WGS.160/STS.021 (Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power) ran for the first time in 2019. Zoom and virtual breakout rooms had replaced circles of chairs, but the shifts made the class no less immersive and urgent for its students. In fact, the pandemic context made the core questions of this new survey class all the more vivid: What roles have U.S. scientists and technologists played as activists in crucial social issues and movements following WWII? What are their motivations, responsibi...