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Graduates congregate at the Johnson Indoor Track prior to the beginning of the Commencement ceremony, which was held June 6 on Killian Court.

Hawaiian Sarah P. Kama ’08 is decorated by her family in flowers at the Commencement reception area on Kresge Oval. This year’s Commencement ceremony was held June 6.

Temporary flower beds flank the stage as Muhammad Yunus, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, delivers the Commencement address. This year’s Commencement ceremony was held June 6 on Killian Court.

Muhammad Yunus, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, delivers the Commencement address in front of thousands of graduates and their family members. This year’s Commencement ceremony was held on June 6 on Killian C...

Heavy rains during the night and in the early morning fill every seat with rain water. Much to everyone’s relief, the rain ended just before the faculty and graduates entered Killian Court for this year’s Commencement...

Members of the Class of 2008 celebrate their new-found freedom at the end of the Commencement ceremony by throwing their caps into the air at Killian Court. See pages 10–11 for more photographs from MIT’s 2008 Commenc...

Brain and Cognitive Sciences graduate Elizabeth R. Ricker ’08 displays a figure of a brain on her cap during this year’s Commencement ceremony, which was held June 6 on Killian Court.

A student’s cap with a figure reading “2008” sticks out from the crowd. This year’s Commencement ceremony was held June 6 on Killian Court.

Department of Chemistry graduate Ziliang “Carter” Lin ’08 wears a cap decorated with the chemical symbol for chlorine during this year’s Commencement ceremony, which was held June 6 on Killian Court. Several other stu...

Adrienne M. Bolger ’08 passes the baton to Leanne M. Veldhuis ’08 in the women’s 4x400-meter relay at the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Associations’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship, held last Thu...

Jacqueline M. Wentz ’10 runs out of the water pit during the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Associations’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship, held last Thursday through...

Susanna “Zan” Barry, a health educator at MIT Medical.

Margarita N. Trevino-Garrido ’11

Jesse Lopez ’08

Anjan Soumyanarayanan G

Kyle M. Knoblock ’11