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The percentage of undergraduate alumni donors to the MIT Annual Fund has decreased slightly in recent years, while since 2010, the percentage of exclusively graduate alumni donors has remained relatively stable.

MIT followed the national trend in declining alumni giving from 2011 to 2012. Capped donations do not count contributions past $100,000. Uncapped donations for 2011 and 2012 are not yet reliably available, as those in...

Nate Silver signed copies of his New York Times bestselling book The Signal and the Noise for audience members following his talk. Many audience members brought their own copies, but the book was also offered for sale...

Audience members had a chance to ask Silver questions during the second half of the event. Question topics ranged from digital journalism to the future of Silver’s career. When asked about would happen when other medi...

The event was held in the Bartos Theater in the basement of E15 (the Weisner Building/old Media Lab). The auditorium’s near-200 person capacity was exceeded before the event began; some audience members were left stan...

Much of the talk focused on the development on FiveThirtyEight, its beginnings at the New York Times, and Silver’s thoughts on its future. In 2007, Silver felt that politics was still “stuck in the stone age and not...

Journalist, writer, and MIT CMS associate professor Seth Mnookin moderated the Nate Silver talk, hosted by the MIT Communications Forum. Mnookin spent the first half of the two hour talk interviewing Silver and the re...

Statistician and political blogger Nate Silver appeared last night before a packed auditorium to talk about the role of statistics in elections and politics, as well as his own career. Silver’s fame skyrocketed late l...

Atomic Bean Café is the perfect place to wind down. It’s great for its chill music, free Wi-Fi, and delicious Vietnamese coffee and specialty kale pastries.

Ten members of The Tech’s Arts Department attempted to predict the Academy Awards, à la Nate Silver. We weren’t quite on target.

MIT and Cambridge police responded to a report of a gunman with a long rifle and body armor at 77 Massachusetts Avenue at 7:30 a.m. Saturday. The tip said that the gunman was going after L. Rafael Reif in retaliation ...

Joi Ito, Director of the Media Lab, speaks about the creation of the Director’s Fellows program.

President L. Rafael Reif leads a conversation about the future of MIT and online education, among other things, at Sidney-Pacific on Tuesday evening. The discussion, as part of the Sidney-Pacific Distinguished Lecture...

Located on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge, Veggie Galaxy serves a wide variety of vegan foods like mushroom chickpea burgers and stuffed french toast.

Students participate in different Lunar New Year traditions: making dumplings, writing calligraphy, and papercutting.