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Kori Rae, the Pixar producer of Monsters University.

Santa Maria della Salute (1904) from Sargent’s travels in Venice. On loan from the Brooklyn Museum, the painting hangs next to his watercolor of the same church from the MFA’s collection.

Bedouins (1905-1906) from Sargent’s travels in the Middle East and North Africa.

Carrara: A Quarry (1911), one of many watercolors from Sargent’s travels to the quarry in Italy; it shows his fascination with light on stone.

Tom Hanks being taken hostage in Captain Phillips.

Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) in Gravity, a drama set in space.

Dina Katabi, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellows Program fellowship. The program “awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individu...