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President Barack Obama formally nominated Subra Suresh ScD ’81, Dean of MIT’s School of Engineering, to be the next director of the National Science Foundation last Wednesday. If confirmed by the Senate, Dean Suresh w...

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...

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

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,...

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 ...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.