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Drop Day: After months of planning and safety checks, a donated, irreparable piano is prepared for dropping off of the MIT Baker House roof.

Just drop it: Baker House Piano Drop

In a tradition that started nearly 50 years ago, Baker House residents drop a donated, nonworking, and irreparable piano off the roof to mark “Drop Day.”

May 24, 2018

Letter regarding the Campus Sustainability Task Force final report

April 6, 2018

After 16 years as heads of house, Anne and Bill McCants to step down from Burton Conner

Search will start soon for new live-in faculty to help lead undergraduate community.

January 26, 2018

A new residence hall on Vassar Street will add 450 undergraduate beds to MIT’s inventory and will serve the Institute at large with a new community gathering space at its western end, new benches and lighting along Vassar Street, and a welcoming new dining facility.

Construction begins on a new student residence on Vassar Street

A next-generation home for MIT undergraduates is underway.

January 23, 2018

Kendall Square will soon be the home of the new Roche Brothers grocery store.

MIT’s One Broadway Building to be the future home of Brothers Marketplace

Announcement delivers on a key commitment by the Institute to the Cambridge community.

December 14, 2017

MIT is on the path to achieve at least a 32 percent reduction in campus emissions of greenhouse gases by the year 2030.

Institute on track to meet campus climate action goals

Plans are in place to meet or exceed greenhouse gas reduction targets.

November 21, 2017

For the MIT production of the 2017 play “Everybody,” the medieval banquet scene from Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s 1911 play “Jedermann” was performed as a prelude — to show the historical roots of the themes in “Everybody.” Both plays are based on the 15th century English morality play “Everyman."

New chapter for theater at MIT opens with “Everybody,” a morality play for our time

Starting with inaugural performance in new facility, students immerse themselves in all aspects of making theater.

November 20, 2017

The new Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel will be situated in the same location as its predecessor. Building 17, which is located to the right of the tunnel and contains its controls, will have a new structure added to the rear for an elevator and access bridge to AeroAstro’s Neumann Hangar.

MIT to construct new, cutting-edge Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel

Largest, most advanced U.S. academic tunnel will replace 79-year-old facility; Boeing is project’s lead donor with philanthropic commitment.

November 13, 2017

Touring the MIT.nano site are (l-r) Jesús del Alamo, director of the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories; Vladimir Bulović, associate dean for innovation and director of MIT.nano; José Antonio Fernández Carbajal, chariman of Monterrey Tec; and Marco Munoz, senior director of MIT’s Office of Philanthropic Partnerships.

Tech and Tec: Nanoscale international engagement

Monterrey Tec Chairman José Antonio Fernández Carbajal tours MIT.nano during his first meeting as the newest member of the MIT Corporation.

November 2, 2017

A rendering of the open space as imagined in a site plan example, from the corner of Third Street and Broadway. Key features include public gathering spaces, retail kiosks, and water representing the continuation of Broad Canal.

Cambridge City Council approves MIT’s Volpe zoning petition

The 14-acre underutilized parcel in Kendall Square is set to be reimagined as a vibrant community.

October 23, 2017

Ceremonial groundbreaking, left to right: City Councillor David Maher, MIT Director of Construction Richard Amster, MIT Graduate Student Council officer Krithika Ramchander, MIT Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart, MIT Real Estate Managing Director Steve Marsh, City Councillor Tim Toomey, Mayor E. Denise Simmons, City Councillor Craig Kelley, CAC student Brandy Altidor, City Councilor Marc McGovern, CAC E...

Art and dirt: Bringing the Cambridge and MIT communities together

MIT’s graduate student housing groundbreaking and a Community Art Center mural installation are cause for celebration.

October 23, 2017

MIT representatives attend a groundbreaking ceremony for a major new graduate student residence hall along Main Street in Kendall Square. Left to right: Peter Cummings, executive director for administration in the Division of Student Life; David Friedrich, senior director of housing operations and renewal in the Division of Student Life; Krithika Ramchander, treasurer of the Graduate Student Counc...

3Q: Ian Waitz on graduate housing, other priorities

Vice chancellor reflects upon his first few months on the job, progress to date, and future plans.

October 18, 2017

Letter regarding Campus Sustainability Task Force report

September 28, 2017

“The new museum will be an experimental place," says John Durant, director of the MIT Museum and a faculty member of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. "We are committed to the idea that the MIT Museum can operate along the same principles as the Institute as a whole. We want to try new ideas, test them, and report our findings.”

John Durant plans a new era for the MIT Museum

A new purpose-built museum will be an experimental place for wider conversations.

September 27, 2017

Associate professors Julie Shah, Sertac Karaman, and Amos Winter, in front of the newly renovated Building 31.

Building 31 powers back up

Members of AeroAstro and MechE are returning to a dramatically renovated building, with robots, drones, and even a Corvette in tow.

September 24, 2017

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