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Making use of the iconic telephone booth found on the first floor of the Student Center, Yu-Pu records shots for the opening and closing scenes of his YouTube video “Telephone.” As of noon last Wednesday, the video ha...

MIT chemistry graduate student Yu-Pu Wang dances in front of a bright yellow sports car parked alongside a street in Cambridge to recreate the “Shagging Wagon” dance scene appearing in Lady Gaga’s music video for “Tel...

Yu-Pu tries on wigs at Cambridge’s Garment District to complete his Lady Gaga costume for his latest music video.

The night before filming the music video for his a capella remake of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone,” Yu-Pu prepares detailed notes describing the beat-by-beat choreography needed for each scene. Here he uses various poses of...

Without his wig, Yu-Pu also plays the role of Beyonce in his YouTube video. Here he poses on the bench flanking the portrait of Katherine McCormick in McCormick Hall.

Senior Reactor Operator Agata E. Wisniowska ’11 performs a startup in the reactor’s control room. The reactor, opened in 1956 and rebuilt in 1974, is operated in part by undergraduate students.

Nicholas D. Sisler ’11 poses with his “little brother,” 11-year-old Evan Wilcox. Nick has mentored Evan Wilcox for three years, and was recently selected as a finalist for the Massachusetts Bay Big Brother Big Sister ...

Jed W. Wartman thanks students and says goodbye during the 2010 Student Leader Awards Ceremony on May 14 in Morss Hall. Jed and his wife, Brynn Hale Wartman, are relocating to Colby College in central Maine.

Dean Jed W. Wartman of the Student Activities Office will be leaving MIT at the end of the month. He is headed to Colby College in Maine, where he will be Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Director of Campus Life.

President Susan J. Hockfield congratulates the doctoral candidates at the doctoral hooding ceremony on June 3 in Rockwell Cage.

Lori Berenson stands in a courtroom at Santa Monica Prison in Lima, Peru, on May 25. Berenson, serving a 20-year sentence in Peru for aiding leftist guerrillas, was granted house arrest by the judge after some 15 year...

Erika Lee ’12 brings an axe kick down on Princeton University’s Rae Drach en route to a silver medal in the women’s black belt welterweight division. MIT’s Sport Taekwondo team captured its third consecutive national ...

Jónsi captivates the crowd with his hypnotic falsetto at the House of Blues in Boston last Wednesday. The lead singer of Icelandic band Sigur Rós, he is currently on tour promoting his first solo album, Go.

Finalists in the $100K Business Plan Contest networked at Bob Metcalfe’s ’68 home last Friday evening. The winners will be announced at the finale in Kresge on Wednesday.

Physics Professor Peter H. Fisher and Associate Professor Christoph M. E. Paus, emcees for the Physics Rock Concert in 54-100 on Sunday, attempt to wipe the audience’s memory at the end of the night. The Physics Rock ...

The White Rabbits launch into the percussion-heavy “Rudie Fails” from their latest album It’s Frightening at the Paradise Rock Club last Saturday.