Dear Octet,
The 2022-23 academic year is off to a brisk start with in-person events, talks, and working sessions for the Octet team and its community partners! On Friday, Oct. 14th, we held our first Intellectual Hospitality event with Christy Vines (CEO and President, Ideos Institute) on race, identity politics, and tribalism. Her talk shed light on the impact the Gospel can make in these times of division and discord for any community. Her words were a reminder that every interaction across differences is an opportunity to bring hope. May the content of this issue inspire your awareness of Kingdom possibilities wherever you may be.
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Mia Chung-Yee
Executive Director
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See highlights from Diálogos, Octet's inaugural event, on race and reconciliation with Christy Vines, President and CEO of the Ideos Institute.
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Enjoy brief conversations featuring Sue Kim and Anne McCants.
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Meet Scott Francisco in the Octet Collaborative's new podcast series, Infinite Corridor: Stories of Faith at MIT.
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You Are Not an Algorithm
Octet Collaborative Senior Theologian offers a theological meditation on the significance of the incarnation for understanding the limits of artificial intelligence.
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Recap of Diálogos: Love Your Neighbor
Octet hosted its inaugural in-person event for dozens of faculty, staff and alumni from a range of backgrounds to hear from Christy Vines, President and CEO of the Ideos Institute. Vines presented a neuro-theological perspective on tribalism and how this illuminates Scripture in a new way. Attendees enjoyed dinner, a musical performance, and discussed the topic in a roundtable format.
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Diálogos
On Dec. 15, Octet welcomes faculty, staff, and alumni for its second event in the Intellectual Hospitality series, Diálogos: The Overturning of Roe vs. Wade, with David Skeel, S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania, Carey Law School.
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Save the Date!
In January, the Octet Collaborative will host two classes for IAP with in-person and remote options. More soon!
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Sue Kim
Head of Global Partnerships and Philanthropy at Solve, an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in conversation with Executive Director Mia Chung-Yee
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Anne McCants
Professor of History & Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, in the first of a three-part conversation with Senior Theologian Nathan Barczi about her leadership of Concourse, integrating the humanities into the first-year science core
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Scholarly News
In Paradox and Virtue: Talks to My Students, written by Vincent Mannoia, '71, a university president speaks to his students using everyday events from campus and his personal life, urging them to pursue the deep moral virtues that comprise a person's character.
Nancy Rose will deliver the 2022 Goldman Lectures in Economics at Wellesley College titled, Antitrust Policy: Separating Rhetoric from Reality.
Anne Carpenter has been working on building the world's largest public cell painting database, as reported by Phys.org in the article, "Scaling Up Cell Imaging."
Ian Hutchinson, Octet Collaborative Faculty Advisor, contributed to an article from the Breakpoint Colson Center on scientist Michael Faraday and how Faraday's Christian faith allowed him to correctly position his research.
Jack Wisdom is the lead author of a new study on Saturn that hypothesizes the planet at one time had an additional moon.
NASA is funding a new project titled, "Adaptive Space Governance and Decision-Support using Source-Sink Evolutionary Environmental Models," submitted by Danielle Wood and Richard Linares of MIT and Moriba Jah of the University of Texas-Austin.
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Scott Francisco, '05, joins Nathan Barczi for the first episode in Octet's new podcast series, Infinite Corridor: Stories of Faith at MIT. Francisco is the founder of Pilot Projects Design Collective, co-founder of the Cities4Forests global network and co-founder of the Wood at Work community of practice. In the podcast, Barczi and Francisco discuss the Brooklyn Bridge, sustainable forestry, and how the creation mandate connects humans to the natural world. | |
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Ministry News & Events
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Join Gold Mass for Scientists on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 9:30 am in the MIT Chapel for a special mass promoting spiritual fellowship among Catholic scientists, science educators and science students.
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Attend a reception and lecture by Karin Öberg, Professor of Astronomy at Harvard, on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 10:30 am in W11 Main Dining Room on a topic at the intersection of faith and science.
- Join the Baptist Student Fellowship for International Early Thanksgiving Dinner on Nov. 13 at 6 pm.
- Join MIT Cru for large group at 8 pm every Tuesday night in the Mezzanine Lounge.
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MIT RUF hosts its large group meeting Oct. 31 at 8 pm in W20-201.
- Join MIT InterVarsity for its large group meeting every Friday night at 7 pm in the McCormick Green Living Room.
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The Octet Collaborative seeks to serve the MIT community and will gratefully consider featuring your event, news, and work. If you'd like to feature something within the A View from the Dome, please reach out to the appropriate contact below.
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