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This collection contains student records kept by the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1958-1980. The materials consist of applications to MIT, reports on academic standing, including copies of grades, and correspondence with faculty and administrators.

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection documents the activities of the Department of Psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Spanning from 1976 to 1990, materials in this collection were the administrative records of Richard Held. Held joined the Department of Psychology in 1962 and he was promoted to department head in 1977. Records in the collection include correspondence, memoranda, reports, and minutes. Included is documentation of Held’s involvement with the Center for Cognitive Science, the...

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection contains records relating to courses taught by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Urban Studies and Planning (designated at MIT as Course 11). There is information about planning proposed courses in design studios and also planning in socialist countries, 1981. There are also course notes for course 11.11, Components of the Urban Environment, 1971-1972, and 11.330, Theory of City Form, 1978. SPURS (Special Program for Urban and Regional Stuides)...

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The collection contains faculty and staff records kept by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1973-1990. Records include promotion and tenure files of the department.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains correspondence, reports, and memoranda about department programs, curriculum, internships, conferences, and research opportunities especially for the Master in City Planning program; promotion and tenure files; budgets; grant proposals; financial planning and assistance to students; annual and affirmative action reports; files related to department personnel matters. Also included are records prepared for department visiting committees.There are six hand...

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This collection consists of both undergraduate and graduate student records kept by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1967-2003.

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The collection consists of computation books, notes, memoranda, and other laboratory records about the development of vacuum tubes and related devices for use in the Whirlwind I computer, and various engineering notes, reports, and memorandums for other DCL projects.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains the administrative files of Benson R. Snyder, who gathered or created the records of three successive organizations: the Science Teaching Center (STC), the Education Research Center (ERC), and the Division for Study and Research in Education (DSRE). Files include correspondence and reports on the changes in the MIT curriculum; funding for research projects; development of educational uses for computer software, especially LOGO computer programming language; and the...

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The collection consists of reports of research and surveys conducted by the Division of Industrial and Municipal Research. The geographical areas surveyed are: Baton Rouge, La.; Bangor and Brewer, Me.; Boston, Norwood, and Somerville, Mass.; New Hampshire; and El Paso, Tex. Many of the reports were later published.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains Division of Sponsored Research records assembled by F. Leroy Foster for his unpublished history, “Sponsored Research at MIT, 1900-1968" (MIT Libraries) including reports created by the Division for MIT’s visiting committee reviews. There are also various published and unpublished reports relating to the finances and organization of government research projects at MIT during World War II ...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The records of the Dynamics Analysis and Control Laboratory, 1946-1961, describe the general organization and administrative functions of the laboratory, and several research and development projects in the field of dynamic control. These files were kept by William W. Seifert. A member of the staff since 1945, Seifert also served as assistant director from 1952, and associate director from 1956. The collection has been arranged in two series: 1) Administrative Records and 2) Research...

Scope and Contents Series 6. Project Intrex Files and MemorandaProject INTREX (Information Transfer Experiments) was conceived and directed by Professor Carl F. J. Overhage of the School of Engineering. The goal of the program was to increase the effectiveness of the library as a digital environment for information indexing, searching, and retrieval. The Barker Engineering Library became the functional environment for the ensuing experiments. Under the leadership of...

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Employees' Mutual Benefit Association records includes a record book of meeting minutes and correspondence from 1913 to 1931. Also included are several ballot forms and an accompanying letter for the election of officers for the 1932-1933 term and a small booklet titled Revised Constitution and By-Laws, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Employees’ Mutual Benefit Association.

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The collection comprises records created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Environmental Medical Service (EMS) Office of the Director from 1947 to 1997.

Materials include: correspondence, budgets, publicity information, reports.

Abstract A record of the MIT faculty begins with the minutes of the September 25, 1865, meeting and continues to the present day. Among the topics discussed at faculty meetings are proposed degree programs, disciplinary actions, admission and graduation requirements, enrollment and diversity, and issues concerning student life. This collection includes biographical material in Killian Award and Edgerton Award announcements and resolutions on the death of individual faculty members written by faculty...

Abstract The Faculty Policy Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has responsibility for maintaining a broad overview of academic programs; interprets, implements, and helps formulate policies on a broad range of issues of concern to the faculty. The committee identifies issues of concern to the faculty and facilitates interchange between members of the faculty and administrators of the Institute. The collection contains agendas, enclosures including supplemental materials and...

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The collection consists of letters accepting and declining invitations to attend a memorial service for MIT President Francis Amasa Walker held in October 1897. Also included is a record book “report” created by the committee to document the planning of the memorial service.

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The collection contains excerpts of letters, dated 1950 to 1964, from students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology written to members of the Fulbright Committee about their experiences abroad.

Scope and Contents The collection of records of the Gas Turbine Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology contains proposals, notes, and reports which describe laboratory research on heat transfer in turbines and transonic turbine blades. Also included are conference papers authored by MIT faculty affiliated with the Gas Turbine Laboratory and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, which have been arranged with other materials pertaining to the conference. The majority of the material...

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The collection contains information about courses offered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between 1868 and 1927 in general studies, humanities, and social science subject areas. The material is primarily syllabi and course notes. Also included are summer reading lists issued by the faculty of the Institute.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection includes correspondence, reports, budgets, and schedules pertaining to graduate student orientations, parties, dances, outings, and other social events; also includes correspondence regarding the Muddy Charles Pub (operated by GSC), recognition and funding of graduate student clubs and activities, and nominations to and contributions of graduate students on Institute committees, including advocacy of improved housing and academic policies. The only digital files...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection includes notes, menus, correspondence, guest and invitation lists, and guest books for events at Gray House, the President's house at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The majority of the records relate to the term of President Charles M. Vest, including a small number of files of official correspondence between Rebecca Vest and Institute staff and photographs taken in June 1990. In addition to files from the tenure of President Paul Gray (1980-1990), President Vest...

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The Gymnasium Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) oversaw the gymnasium and drill hall built in Boston for MIT students in 1874. The collection consists of minutes of the committee and also includes a handwritten subscription lists of pledges to a fundraising effort in 1874 for the building. The list is signed by former MIT president William B. Rogers and his successor, MIT president John D. Runkle, among others.

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This collection comprises the official personel records of faculty and academic staff as maintained by the Human Resource Office of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The files contain biographical information about faculty members and academic staff including resumes, publication lists, correspondence regarding appointments, salary information, news releases, photographs, newspaper clippings, and obituaries.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists of records of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) president inaugural committees since 1900. The records are primarily documents with some photographs and memorabilia. The inaugurations of Henry Pritchett, Richard Maclaurin, Ernest F. Nichols, and Samuel Wesley Stratton are documented in notebooks which contain minutes of committee and subcommittee meetings and copies of inaugural addresses. The inaugurations of James R. Killian, Julius A. Stratton,...

Scope and Contents of the Collection Records received in 1983, boxes 1-3, 1978-1983, contain files which reflect the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Industrial Liaison Program's (ILP) domestic and international activities. Records include correspondence; minutes of staff meetings; and materials on ILP sponsored Senior Executive Symposia. Also includes correspondence pertaining to James D. Bruce's involvement in MIT committees including the Ad Hoc Committee on the Secondary Technical Project.Records received in...