Perhaps MIT's administration has wisely decided not to expand the number of nutcases permanently entrenched on the faculty.
Maybe they've said to themselves, "Sherely isn't our kind of nut."
MIT plays supporting role in Oscar-winning 'Beautiful Mind'
In real life, Nash was appointed a C.L.E. Moore instructor in 1951. While at MIT, he solved a classical unsolved problem relating to differential geometry. He taught classes, and met and married MIT physics major Alicia Larde (S.B. 1955). And it was during his tenure at MIT that he began to be consumed by the disease that he would later almost miraculously overcome.