Between 1967 and 1969, she worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Royal Society Mond section of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
[1] As dean for undergraduate education, she worked to recruit more women, minorities, and students of varied interests, implemented changes in the humanities and social science requirements, and publicly criticized a Department of Defense policy barring homosexuals from ROTC programs.
[7] MIT is deeply committed to the premise that undergraduates should inhabit a very special world-that of a moral and intellectual universe with certain fixed stars, but also with wide spaces in between where students can find room to wander and to make their own paths.MacVicar established the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program in 1969 based upon a suggestion from Edwin H.
[9][10] The program allows undergraduates to gain hands-on research experience with faculty members around the university and provides the laboratories with the funds to employ the students.
The fellows are announced on "MacVicar Day" in early March with roundtable discussions and symposia centered on various facets of undergraduate education such as curriculum requirements, mentoring, classrooms, international exposure.