Jacqueline Hewitt to step down as director of the MIT Kavli Institute
Jacqueline Hewitt, the Julius A. Stratton Professor in Electrical Engineering and Physics, will step down as director of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, effective Jan. 16, 2019. “In her more than 15 years in charge of Kavli, Jackie has demonstrated superlative leadership, offered sage advice, and provided tireless service to the institute, the school, MIT, and the entire astrophysics community,” Dean of the School of Science Michael Sipser says. “On behalf of us all, I thank her for her service and for her stellar career as director of Kavli.” With Hewitt at the helm, the MIT Kavli Institute saw its first major private foundation investment. Working with Robert Silbey, former dean of the School of Science, and Marc Kastner, former head of the Department of Physics, Hewitt developed a successful proposal to the Kavli Foundation that brought resources and an intellectual focus to the astrophysics faculty and research staff...