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Via @mitcommencement on Twitter: “Graduating students: Celebrate with the virtual photo booth! The interface will walk you through taking a selfie, choosing a background and stickers. Be sure to share your photo on social!”

RESEARCH NEWS

Researchers have created the first fiber with digital capabilities, able to sense, store, analyze, and infer activity. Sewn into garments, such digital fibers could help in physical performance monitoring, medical inference, and disease detection.

FEATURED VIDEO

To commemorate the completion of an undergraduate MIT experience, MIT Admissions blogger Sabrina M. created a playful video tribute to Elton John’s “I’m Still Standing.” Congratulations to all students earning degrees this week!

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

Abigael Bamgboye set a course for success in engineering and business management through the MITx MicroMasters program in Data and Economic Development Policy. “There are so many ways that the MicroMasters has enhanced my life,” she says.

IN THE MEDIA

In Wired, Haystack Observatory’s Michael Hecht describes the MOXIE experiment’s success in extracting oxygen from the Martian atmosphere: “It’s stunning how much the results look identical to what we had run in the laboratory two years earlier.”

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

ChemE senior Awele Uwagwu became fascinated by the energy sector while growing up in a Nigerian city shaped by the oil and gas industry. Through his research and a new startup, he hopes to accelerate the adoption of solar energy in his home country.