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To celebrate the publication of the new hacks book, "Nightwork" (MIT Press), the MIT Museum once again brings out portions of its renowned hacks collection for "The Hacks Are Back!" at the Compton Gallery through Friday, Sept. 5.

Arts News

August 27, 2003

Edwin L. Thomas (above), professor of materials science and director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology, interspersed a little personal with the academic and professional in his talk, and won over the audience of incoming freshmen (below) in the process.

Freshmen urged to 'blur the boundary'

August 27, 2003

International students gathered to get to know each other and share how some of their expectations of the United States matched up with the reality they've experienced since arriving. Freshmen were gathered around tables with upperclassmen mentors interspersed, expressing their thoughts while one of the group took notes and got up to share with the entire group. Many laughs ensued, especially when...

Foreign students ponder fast food, flashy dress

August 27, 2003

The members of the winning team are (left to right): junior Arthur Mak, sophomore Dheera Venkatraman, senior Maxwell Planck, sophomore Lauri Kauppila and sophomore Akhil Shashidhar.

Cinderella team is Terminator in robot contest

August 27, 2003

News Office Director Arthur Jones (left) exchanges pleasantries with Vice President Kathryn A. Willmore and President Charles M. Vest at the freshman convocation Monday.

Jones is new director of News Office

August 27, 2003

News You Can Use

August 27, 2003

Professor Pawan Sinha, seated at left, works in a village with a girl who gained sight after being blind until age seven.

Project Prakash sheds light on formerly blind children

August 27, 2003

MIT police officer sketches rape suspect for Westborough cops

August 27, 2003

Magazine ranks MIT fourth among U.S. universities

August 27, 2003

Technology, practices thwarted Mass. voters in 2000

August 27, 2003

Hometown Heroes

Snippets from news stories about members of the Class of 2007

August 22, 2003

Magazine ranks MIT fourth among national universities

August 22, 2003

International students gathered to get to know each other, and to share how some of their expectations of the United States matched up with their own experiences. As freshmen mingled with upperclassmen mentors, many laughs ensued, but never so many as when Anton Katz, a freshman from Israel, presented his experiences in the form of a stand-up comedy routine. Next to him is mentor Saba Gul of Pakis...

New foreign students ponder fast food, flashy dress and high tech

August 21, 2003

Alf Bjercke (MIT 1943), right, presents his thesis to MIT President Charles M. Vest, which he plans to defend this winter to three professors at the University of Oslo.

Busy 82-year-old alumnus in home stretch for his Ph.D.

August 19, 2003

Hometown Heroes

Snippets from news stories about members of the Class of 2007

August 18, 2003

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Magazine ranks MIT fourth among U.S. universities

Technology, practices thwarted Mass. voters in 2000

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New foreign students ponder fast food, flashy dress and high tech

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