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MIT Libraries unveil new exhibit space

A once-blank wall outside the Institute Archives, in Building 14's first-floor corridor, has been transformed into a literal window into MIT's remarkable special collections. April 16, 2008

Book, exhibit showcase MIT faculty

When Andrea Frank came to MIT in 2003, she found world-class minds conducting cutting-edge research, eager to discuss their work. Today Frank, a lecturer at MIT, has woven together those voices and faces in the book "Visions: MIT Interviews." March 18, 2008

Newton's apple tree bears fruit at MIT

Ed Vetter (S.B. 1942) gave MIT an apple tree that is a direct descendant of the tree under which Isaac Newton sat when he is said to have conceived the theory of gravity. October 4, 2006

MIT Museum gets physics-al

Deborah Douglas, science and technology curator at the MIT Museum, demonstrates the use of an organ pipe, one of MIT's oldest physics instruments. April 26, 2006

Panel explores LGBT experience at MIT

Although it has not been an entirely easy road, MIT has always been one step ahead in terms of accepting differences, said a panel of gay, lesbian and transgender alumni. April 26, 2006

Endicott House families feted

MIT Endicott House began the celebration of its 50th year in the MIT family with the publication of a book about the original families who lived on the estate and the unveiling of a plan to restore parts of the estate's landscaping. January 23, 2006

2005: The year in pictures

A photo gallery of major events in 2005. December 21, 2005

Get an '80s view of MIT in 'Labs'

Few people take an anthropological look at science, which makes Scott Globus' 3,000 photographs of MIT laboratories taken over the course of two years in the early 1980s a sizeable contribution to the field. October 19, 2005

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