Dear Physics Community,

An incredible week,  Pres. Reif’s announcement about the return to MIT in the Fall and the awful ICE Broadcast message.  Still, some good things: four colleagues (Ibrahim, Mark, Lindley and Yen-Jie) got tenure on July 1, MIT, and Harvard are suing ICE and the Climate Grand Challenge was announced.

Other Announcements

• Teaching and Learning Lab Newsletter
• MITs COVID-19 dashboard
• Future meeting at Caltech for junior or senior women interested in pursuing a Ph.D.

Of Importance to the Physics Community

• This article from Cambridge Day has a good summary of the MIT/Harvard case against ICE and what happens next
• Atlantic article and Nature article on COVID-19 and statistics
• New camera for Magellan to study the production of heavy elements
• Physics Community Lunch talk July 9 video

Now that we know who will be where for the Fall, the Department can start making concrete plans.  There are infinite questions to work through and much work to do to get ready for Fall.

Peter