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Inauguration of MIT’s 15th President, Dr. Charles M. Vest (1991)

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On May 10, 1991, Dr. Charles M. Vest was inaugurated as the 15th president of MIT during a ceremony in Killian Court. President Vest served the Institute with distinction over the next 14 years, leading MIT through a ...

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...

Recollections of Churchill’s Visit to MIT for the Mid-Century Convocation of 1949 (1999)

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For its 1949 Mid-Century Convocation MIT invited Winston Churchill to give the keynote address in front of a crowd of thousands—an historic event for MIT and for the international community. This short video produced ...

Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics: Dr. Paul Chesler

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9th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium May 14, 2010 Applied String Theory: From Gravitational Collapse to Heavy Ion Collisions Dr. Paul Chesler, 2009-12 Fellow (Nuclear & Particle Theory) A remar...

MIT OpenCourseWare Press Conference (April 4, 2001)

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On April 4, 2001, MIT President Charles Vest leads a press conference to announce the establishment of MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW), the web-based program to provide free access to MIT course content, including lecture ...

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...

Sir Salman Rushdie named Honorary Visiting Professor of the Humanities (1993)

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In November 1993, author Salman Rushdie made an unannounced visit to MIT to accept an award as Honorary Visiting Professor of the Humanities. Rushdie had been living in hiding ever since a death sentence was issued by...