“How do you use the diverse backgrounds of the students, faculty, administrators, so that MIT becomes a better place... from a research output perspective?”—Ulric Ferner

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Rodolfo Alarcon
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Rodolfo Alarcon

I wish people knew that at MIT we're not all nerds and geeks. We're pretty much normal people that really like science or engineering, like challenges. I mean, even the shyest person here, I think, has that fight in them....

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Legena Henry
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Legena Henry

I feel like there's a typical MIT student that you think about, that you would see in movies, or on the news, or whatever. And it was never a Trinidadian girl. So I just didn't think of myself as that person. I feel like when...

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Sally Haslanger
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Sally Haslanger

I think faculty gender equity at MIT has a ways to go. But it's not dissimilar from other top ranked schools. There's a whole institutional structure to support gender equity. So that's been a really tremendous asset in...

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Ulric Ferner
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Ulric Ferner

I was born and raised in New Zealand, literally on the other side of the world. MIT, I really feel, is an incredibly diverse place. Especially culturally, I think. The number of people I've met from so many different countries...

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