MacVicar, Margaret.
Margaret MacVicar papers, 1962-1990.
The collection documents MacVicar's career as a student, teacher, and research physicist, and includes her notes from several physics and materials science courses, 1962-1967, and course notes from a number of physics classes she taught, 1969-1989. Technical reports, research notes, and some photographs of experimental results document MacVicar's research, which included superconductivity in niobium, its alloys and related ceramic materials, 1969-1980, and the application of superconductivity in corrosion detection using superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) after 1980. Also included are project proposals, reports, and correspondence with her research sponsors: the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Department of Energy's Research and Development Agency, and the Office of Naval Research.
Records of MacVicar's MIT activities include the Committee on Discipline, 1981-1983; Committee on Educational Policy, 1972-1975; Freshman Advisory Council Steering Committee to the Chancellor, 1975-1977; and presentations made on MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) before the MIT Corporation, alumni groups, faculty, and administrative groups. MacVicar's writings, speeches, and interviews describe her concern with undergraduate issues in general and scientific education. Also included are papers describing other professional activities, including lectures and presentations, correspondence as vice president of the Carnegie Institution, and her job searches and personal correspondence.
Margaret MacVicar, 1943-1991, S.B. in physics, 1964, Sc.D. in metallurgy and materials science, 1967, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a postdoctoral fellow in the Royal Society section of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University in England, 1967-1969. She returned to MIT in 1969 as an instructor in physics, and became an associate professor in 1979. In 1980 she was appointed to the Cecil and Ida Green Chair in Education. In 1969 she developed MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). She was dean for undergraduate education from 1985 to 1991. From 1983 to 1987 she was vice president of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. MacVicar's principal research interest was electronic materials, especially high temperature metal and ceramic superconductors.
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Committee on Discipline.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Committee on Educational Policy.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics -- Study and teaching -- 1962-1989.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty -- Personal and professional papers.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.
United States. Office of Naval Research
Superconductivity -- Research -- 1962-1990.
Women scientists.
Women in science
AIP-ICOS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections. M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA