MIT News Q&A: MIT Chancellor Melissa Nobles is one of four guest editors of a special series of four issues of the journal Nature, examining racism in science.
What Margaret Burnham seeks to show is the “chronic, unpredictable violence” that shaped daily life in the South “how lethal, for women and for men, the most commonplace encounters under Jim Crow could be.”
Delhi-NCR [India], October 11 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Dr Ananya Mukherjee, Vice Chancellor of Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence today addressed an audience on universities as engines of social mobility at the Times Higher Education (THE) World Academic Summit 2022 in New York. On a panel on Leadership Reflections, she was joined by Melissa Nobles, Chancellor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Gary Young, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester. The discussion was moderated by Phil Baty, Chief Knowledge Officer, THE. Summit was organized by Times Higher Education in partnership with New York University. This year's summit focused on the role of higher education leaders and policymakers in meeting the rising expectations for progress among institutions, students as well as the wider higher education ecosystem. More than 75 university presidents (or rectors or vice chancellors) are among over 400 policymakers, business executives and academics who convened at this
<p>Margaret Burnham has been appointed by President Biden to a five-person Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board to increase public access to records of unsolved racially motivated crimes. </p>