Category: From the Vault
“Camp Technology” (1936)
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This vintage film from 1936 shows the daily routines of work (and play) at MIT's surveying camp for civil engineering students. It was known affectionately as "Camp Technology" and for years was held at a site on the ...
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 50th Anniversary Celebration (2000)
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The fiftieth anniversary celebration for arts and humanities programs at MIT features several symposia and a medal ceremony held on Oct. 6 and 7, 2000. The newly renamed School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences...
“Hypothetical Risk: Cambridge City Council’s Hearings on Recombinant DNA Research” (1976)
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The film "Hypothetical Risk. The Cambridge City Council's hearings on DNA Experimentation in Cambridge" was recorded in June 1976 at City Hall in Cambridge, MA. Mayor Alfred Vellucci and city councillors Saundra Graha...
Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics: Dr. Paola Rebusco
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9th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium May 14, 2010 Astronomers-to-be at MIT Dr. Paola Rebusco, 2007-10 Fellow (Theoretical Astrophysics) During my time at MIT, I had the good luck to mentor three ta...
Technology Day 1997 — “Technology At Play: The World of Sports, Games and Toys”
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MIT's 1997 Technology Day takes place on June 7, 1997 on the theme "Technology At Play: The World of Sports, Games and Toys." Speakers include Stephen C. Jacobsen ME '73, "On the Design and Manufacture of Some Interes...
Playing with FIRE- The Edge of the Universe as seen from Magellan, Dr. Robert Simcoe
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Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics 10th Anniversary Celebration: October 8, 2010 Dr. Robert Simcoe 2003-2006 Pappalardo Fellow
Special meeting of the MIT community to welcome Dr. Susan Hockfield (2004)
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On the morning of August 26, 2004, MIT announced that Susan Hockfield, a distinguished neuroscientist and then Provost at Yale University, had been selected as MIT's 16th president. Later that afternoon, the MIT comm...
MIT Family Weekend (1989): “Footprints in the Rock” and “The 2.70 Introduction to Design Contest”
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MIT Family Weekend (Oct. 21, 1989), featuring speakers Phillip Morrison, Phyllis Morrison, Paul E. Gray and Harry West. In the first presentation, titled "Footprints in the Rock", Philip and Phyllis Morrison demonstra...
17th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration (1991)
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The Seventeenth Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration takes place January 18, 1991, and features Dr. Benjamin Hooks as keynote speaker. Four students also present a youth perspective on the significance of t...
Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics: Dr. Yusuke Nishida
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9th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium May 14, 2010 Universal Physics with Ultracold Atoms Dr. Yusuke Nishida, 2008-11 Fellow (Nuclear & Particle Theory) Physics is said to be universal when resu...
