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Featured list: List of Institute Professors |
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| Institute Professor is the highest title that can be awarded to a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It is analogous to the titles of Distinguished Professor, University Professor, or Regents Professor used at other universities in recognition of a professor's extraordinary research achievements and dedication to the school. At MIT, Institute Professors are granted a unique level of freedom and flexibility to pursue their research and teaching interests without regular departmental or school responsibilities; they report only to the Provost.[1] Usually no more than twelve professors hold this title at any one time.[1] The position was created by President James R. Killian in 1951 and Professor John C. Slater was the first to hold the position.[2]
Institute Professors are initially nominated by leaders representing either a Department or School. The Chair of the Faculty then consults with the Academic Council and jointly appoints with the President an ad-hoc committee from various departments and non-MIT members to evaluate the qualifications and make a documented recommendation to the President. The final determination is made based upon recommendations from professionals in the nominee's field. The case is then reviewed again by the Academic Council and approved by the Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation.[1] List of Institute Professors
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- ^ "Slater Takes New Post as Roving Physics Professor" (PDF). The Tech. September 18, 1951. http://tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_071/TECH_V071_S0128_P002.pdf. Retrieved 2007-04-22.
- ^ Elizabeth A. Thomson (June 5, 2002). "Bizzi is named an Institute Professor". MIT News Office. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/bizzi-0605.html. Retrieved 2007-03-23.
- ^ "Chomsky Is Citation Champ". MIT News Office. April 15, 1992. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1992/citation-0415.html. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
- ^ "According to a recent survey by the Institute for Scientific Information, only Marx, Lenin, Shakespeare, Aristotle, the Bible, Plato, and Freud are cited more often in academic journals than Chomsky, who edges out Hegel and Cicero." Samuel Hughes, The Pennsylvania Gazette, July/August, 2001
- ^ "MIT Linguistics". MIT News Office. October 24, 2010. http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/chomsky/index.html. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
- ^ "John M. Deutch Biography". http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/deutch/biography.html. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
- ^ "Deutch named Institute professor". December 7, 1990. http://tech.mit.edu/V110/N56/deutch.56n.html. Retrieved 2007-04-04.
- ^ "Diamond, Magnanti and Molina are Institute Professors". MIT News Office. June 4, 1997. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1997/professors-0604.html. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
- ^ "MIT Physics Faculty". http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/millie_dresselhaus.html. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
- ^ "Ann Graybiel named institute professor". MIT News Office. November 2008. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/institute-prof-1103.html. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- ^ "MIT's Ann Graybiel awarded national medal of science". http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/graybiel.html. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- ^ "Baltimore, Harbison, Wang elevated to ranks of Institute Professors". MIT News Office. June 7, 1995. Archived from the original on 2007-02-12. http://web.archive.org/web/20070212231749/http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1995/40249/40276.html. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
- ^ Elizabeth A. Thomson (March 2, 2005). "Bob Langer named an Institute Professor". MIT News Office. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/langer-0302.html. Retrieved 2007-03-23.
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