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MIT chemistry graduate student Yu-Pu Wang dances in front of a bright yellow sports car parked alongside a street in Cambridge to recreate the “Shagging Wagon” dance scene appearing in Lady Gaga’s music video for “Tel...

Making use of the iconic telephone booth found on the first floor of the Student Center, Yu-Pu records shots for the opening and closing scenes of his YouTube video “Telephone.” As of noon last Wednesday, the video ha...

In preparation for filming the scene in which Lady Gaga prepares a sandwich, Yu-Pu intently studies his notes describing the choreography for the accompanying dance sequence.

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Lori Berenson stands in a courtroom at Santa Monica Prison in Lima, Peru, on May 25. Berenson, serving a 20-year sentence in Peru for aiding leftist guerillas, was granted parole by a judge after some 15 years in prison.

Anna Tang’s trial date is postponed at a hearing in Middlesex Superior Court on May 24. The agreement was reached between Assistant District Attorney Susanne Kontz, Tang’s attorney Robert A. George, and Justice Bruce ...

Dishes are prepared and ready to serve at Craigie on Main on May 11.

President Barack Obama announced on Thursday that he intends to nominate Subra Suresh ScD ’81, Dean of MIT’s School of Engineering, to be the next director of the National Science Foundation. If confirmed by the Senat...

Peter L. Cooper, Manager of Sustainability Engineering and Utility Planning at MIT Facilities, speaks at the MIT Efficiency Forward event in Building 14 on May 26. The Efficiency Forward program will aim to cut electr...

Nathan M. Robert ’13 stabs Eric A. Del Castillo ’13 in the chest with their toy set, the Legend of the Sword, during the Toy Playsentations in 10-250 on May 11. The Legend of the Sword contains two Nerf swords and two...

Kayakers paddle through the Charles River against the smoke-obscured Boston skyline on May 31. Smoke from forest fires in Quebec drifted through Boston, making breathing uncomfortable outdoors.

MIT students swarm an “entire room giveaway” in E60, posted to the reuse mailing list. Steven G. Banzaert emailed the list giving away the contents of a room that housed several robotics teams, between the hours of 3–...

President Susan J. Hockfield congratulates the doctoral candidates at the doctoral hooding ceremony on June 3 in Rockwell Cage.

Dean Jed W. Wartman of the Student Activities Office will be leaving MIT at the end of the month. He is headed to Colby College in Maine, where he will be Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Director of Campus Life.

Jed W. Wartman thanks students and says goodbye during the 2010 Student Leader Awards Ceremony on May 14 in Morss Hall. Jed and his wife, Brynn Hale Wartman, are relocating to Colby College in central Maine.

Senior Reactor Operator Agata E. Wisniowska ’11 performs a startup in the reactor’s control room. The reactor, opened in 1956 and rebuilt in 1974, is operated in part by undergraduate students.

Without his wig, Yu-Pu also plays the role of Beyonce in his YouTube video. Here he poses on the bench flanking the portrait of Katherine McCormick in McCormick Hall.

Yu-Pu tries on wigs at Cambridge’s Garment District to complete his Lady Gaga costume for his latest music video.

The sixth annual MIT Toy Product Design Playsentation was held in 10-250 on May 11. Instructor Barry M. Kudrowitz, a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering, taught 2.00b for the sixth and final time this past seme...

Micah R. Eckhardt G bursts forth in verses praising the Bobbly Bots for their many desirable features, such as cuddliness, interchangeable joints, and motorized bases during the Toy Playsentations in 10-250 on May 11....

Frubble (Anne G. Warren ’13) dances out of the grip of the Frubblebusters in the background to the theme song of Ghostbusters during the 2.00b Toy Playsentations in 10-250 on May 11. Students collaborated with Hasbro,...

Remus Corp. Operative Jeremy V. Rossmann ’13 debriefs the audience about the Flyby, a powerful new weapon currently in the hands of dangerous gangsters, during the 2.00b Toy Playsentation in 10-250 on May 11. The Flyb...

C-Crete, winners of the 100K MIT Entrepreneurship Competition, receives a check to help start their business in making nano-engineered concrete. The 100K competition accepts entries in five different “tracks”: energy,...

Nicholas D. Sisler ’11 poses with his “little brother,” 11-year-old Evan Wilcox. Nick has mentored Evan Wilcox for three years, and was recently selected as a finalist for the Massachusetts Bay Big Brother Big Sister ...

The night before filming the music video for his a capella remake of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone,” Yu-Pu prepares detailed notes describing the beat-by-beat choreography needed for each scene. Here he uses various poses of...