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Gary Cunha of facilities, right, gets some help from John Grenier of Atlantic Plant Maintenance on Friday, June 2, to haul up the sail that will shade the stage during Commencement on Friday, June 9.

MIT gears up for 140th Commencement

June 7, 2006

Technology Day will address 'global challenges'

June 7, 2006

MIT marine biologists Ed DeLong and Penny Chisholm check out an ocean water sample. Researchers in Chisholm's lab have shown that gene-swapping takes place among ocean plankton and resembles the flow of genes known to occur among disease-causing bacteria.

Researchers: Oceans are a major gene swap-meet for plankton

March 23, 2006

Warbling whales speak a language all their own

March 22, 2006

Thousands of different types of microbes inhabit every cubic centimeter of seawater. Most of the organisms in this picture are about 1/2 of a micrometer, or thousandth of a meter, wide.

Microbe DNA helps scientists understand ocean

February 22, 2006

Sheri Simmons uses a pipette to place water samples onto a microscope slide to look at the swimming behavior of magnetotactic bacteria. Her advisor and co-author, Katrina Edwards, is at left.

Bacterium found to have strange magnetic personality

February 17, 2006

Artist-in-residence Cindy Snodgrass shows off some painted fish that are part of her temporary installation about water in the Stata Center. The exhibit is called 'S.O.S.-Fish.'

Pretty fish carry water quality message to Stata

February 3, 2006

This image shows a sample of the data collected by the SeaBed autonomous underwater vehicle as it swam over the Chios shipwreck in July 2005. The 3-D color mesh represents a topographic map of the sea floor, created using data collected by multibeam sonar. The brown strip shows the area captured in digital images, which were used to create the photomosaic of the wreck. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow(...

Deep-sea robot photographs ancient Greek shipwreck

February 2, 2006

Jelly Talks spread a little learning

August 31, 2005

Garry and Karlene Maskaly, who met as MIT undergraduates and went through grad school together, picked up their Ph.D. hoods together on Thursday, June 2. The couple, married in 2000, both got degrees in materials science.

Grads share joy at hooding ceremony

June 6, 2005

Rob Lyons, left, and Kathy Coletti, gardeners in MIT's Department of Facilities, plant flowers in preparation for MIT's Commencement exercises on June 3.

MIT readies for 139th Commencement

June 1, 2005

Ranier Lohmann, a former postdoctoral associate at MIT's Parsons Lab, takes samples in Boston Harbor to assess levels of toxic organic compounds.

Plastic packaging helps monitor ocean pollutants

January 12, 2005

Marine biologists Ed DeLong and Penny Chisholm, newly named Moore Foundation Investigators in Marine Science, check out an ocean water sample.

Marine microbes focus of major gift to MIT

September 21, 2004

Rhododendrons in bloom are dressing up the campus for Friday's Commencement exercises.

Students set to get degrees at 138th Commencement

May 28, 2004

New center to study impact of ocean pathogens on health

May 5, 2004