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Articles from Wednesday, August 9, 2000 Vol. 45, No. 2 Campus News New residence hall planned for grads MediaLabEurope opens its doors Limited number of pet cats will be allowed in four dormitories New professorships announced Entrepreneur endows chair: Rivest is holder Alumnus creates chair and neurosciences fund RAND study finds US doesn't reimburse universities for percentage of research costs Professor John Hrones of MechE dies at 87 28-year-old graduate student killed in truck accident Other obituaries NASA chooses two alumni to be astronauts Awards & Honors Here & There Arts News MIT's staff artists emerge from behind their desks to perform Science and Technology Scientists identify gene responsible for tumor metastisis in cancer Spanish telescope observes death of comet named for Lincoln Lab Doubts on pulsars' ages throw other theories into doubt Notes from the Lab News in Pictures   Plasma Science and Fusion Center conducts novel experiment High School Seniors participate in robot contest at MIT First Piece of Stata Center now in place Official agreement with Cambridge University is signed Teen Science Bowl winners visit campus Alumni Association celebrates past year

Professor Richard O. Hynes, director of the Center for Cancer Research, holds a glass slide containing thousands of bits of DNA that have been exposed to genetic material from tumor cells. He and former postdoctoral fellow Edwin A. Clark (left), now at Millennium Predictive Medicine in Cambridge, collaborated with other scientists to identify the gene responsible for cancer metastasis. Story. Photo by Donna Coveney Current Listings: • Classified Ads • MIT Calendar • Positions Available Other services: • Tech Talk archives • Production schedule • How to subscribe to the print version of Tech Talk • News on MIT's alcohol policy