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Institute professor is the highest title that can be awarded to a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

A research university located in Cambridge

United States.It is analogous to the titles of distinguished 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.Usually no more than twelve professors hold this distinction at any one time.

Massachusetts Hall is the oldest surviving building at Harvard College

The first institution of higher learning in the British colonies in America

And second oldest academic building in the United States after the Wren Building at the College of William & Mary.As such

It possesses great significance not only in the history of American education but also in the story of the developing English Colonies of the 18th century.Massachusetts Hall was designed by Harvard Presidents John Leverett and his successor Benjamin Wadsworth.It was erected between 1718 and 1720 in Harvard Yard.It was originally a dormitory containing 32 chambers and 64 small private studies for the 64 students it was designed to house.During the siege of Boston

640 American soldiers took quarters in the hall.Much of the interior woodwork and hardware

1. Including :
2. Brass doorknobs

Disappeared at this time.

The MIT School of Science is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1. Located in Cambridge
2. Massachusetts

United States.The School is composed of 6 academic departments who grant SB

And PhD or ScD degrees; as well as a number of affiliated laboratories and centers.As of 2020

The Dean of Science is Professor Nergis Mavalvala.With approximately 275 faculty members

1. 1100 graduate students
2. 700 undergraduate majors
3. 500 postdocs
4. And 400 research staff

The School is the second largest at MIT.As of 2019

12 faculty members and 14 alumni of the School have won Nobel Prizes.