Margaret MacVicar
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Margaret MacVicar (1944-1991) was an American physicist and educator. MacVicar had a profound impact on education at MIT because of her advocacy for programs like Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) as well reshaping the undergraduate program as MIT's Dean for Undergraduate Education in the 1980s.
MacVicar was a "MIT lifer," in that the enrolled as an undergraduate (BS VIII '64), completed her graduate degree (Sc.D III '67), and became a member of the faculty all at MIT. She was among the first women to live at the newly opened McCormick Hall women's dormitory.