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Professor Alexander H. Slocum ’82 presents his research on energy storage to United States President Barack Obama. Slocum explains a system for harnessing excess wind energy. When the wind is not blowing, water flowin...

Carlo Guelfi plays Amonasro, and Violeta Urmana plays the title role in Verdi’s Aida.

The new Boston West Route will no longer travel over the BU Bridge on its return into Cambridge, and Boston East will not venture as far into residential areas because of noise complaints at night.

Recently released data from DSL provides the much-awaited breakdown of MIT’s student life fee. $1.1M goes to DAPER.

The figure lists the number of votes for each suggestion and plots the percentage of the votes in favor. The only suggestion on the website not included is “Freshman Programs” because there was a misstatement in the U...

Charlie Zien ’10 poses in front of one of the many jalopies that line the streets of downtown Havana on June 29.

Michael Moore stands outside of Goldman Sachs headquarters in Manhattan. Wall Street is among the targets of Moore’s new film, Capitalism: A Love Story.

Center, the market value of MIT’s endowment in real dollars (not inflation-adjusted); market value includes new gifts added each year.

Right, sources of research revenue on the MIT campus (excluding Lincoln Laboratory and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology). Health and Human Services revenue has been a significant component of inc...

Left, MIT’s endowment investment return versus the Standard & Poor’s 500 index from 2000 through 2009 (present).

Pearl Jam will tour Australia in November.