Musical tribute
"Chorus From Pindar," for unison choir and four brass players, was composed by Institute Professor John Harbison for the installation of Susan Hockfield as president of MIT. It was performed by the MIT...
View ArticleCommunity invited to partake in, contribute to Inauguration 2012
The MIT community is invited to participate in and contribute to the Inauguration 2012 activities taking place from September 19-22. In addition to the ceremony at 2:30 pm on Friday afternoon, there...
View ArticlePreview of an inauguration
To celebrate the inauguration of L. Rafael Reif as the Institute’s 17th president, MIT will host a series of events that will explore collaborations within MIT, as well as the Institute’s innovations...
View ArticleInaugural concert celebrates President Reif and Music at MIT
The inauguration of L. Rafael Reif as MIT’s 17th president presents the Institute with a splendid occasion to showcase its long-standing and highly creative engagement with music in its many forms. To...
View ArticleInauguration festivities off to a stimulating start
The four days of festivities celebrating the inauguration of President L. Rafael Reif got off to an information-intensive start this morning, with a symposium at Kresge Auditorium called “Infinite...
View ArticleMIT’s place in the world
MIT’s reach in research and education extends far beyond Cambridge — so global engagement was a natural topic for a Thursday symposium keyed to the inauguration of President L. Rafael Reif. Nearly two...
View ArticleSlideshow: Thursday's Inaugural Celebration Concert
The inauguration of L. Rafael Reif as MIT’s 17th president presented the Institute with a splendid occasion to showcase its long-standing and highly creative engagement with music in its many forms. A...
View ArticleInnovation in the classroom
For all the innovations that come out of MIT’s labs, a symposium held on the morning of President L. Rafael Reif’s inauguration underscored the many ways in which the Institute is pursuing innovations...
View Article‘We are all in this great enterprise together’
Before an enthusiastic crowd under a huge pavilion in MIT’s Killian Court, the Institute’s 17th president, L. Rafael Reif, used the occasion of his inauguration to embrace the coming changes that he...
View ArticleSlideshow: Community Inauguration Festival
On Saturday, Sept. 22, the MIT community gathered together for a day of festivities to celebrate the inauguration of MIT's 17th president, L. Rafael Reif. Reif, who delivered his inaugural address the...
View ArticleCelebration begins with a joyful 'Noise'
President Susan Hockfield and her family became the first at MIT to walk through the "White Noise/White Light" art installation, which opened May 2 before a crowd of more than 100 students, faculty...
View ArticleInauguration in photographs
A collection of photos from the inauguration of MIT President Susan Hockfield, who has served as the 16th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since December 2004.
View ArticleMIT pulls out stops for block party
Once President Susan Hockfield has been officially inaugurated, it will be time to party!Musicians, dancers, magicians and jugglers will entertain the crowds at an Uncommon Block Party, the culminating...
View ArticleAcademic procession steeped in tradition
The inaugural ceremony on May 6 celebrates not only the beginning of Susan Hockfield's term as MIT's 16th president, but also marks a new phase for the Institute itself.Hockfield will be welcomed by...
View ArticleCeremony centers on MIT charter
For all the pomp and circumstance surrounding inauguration week, the key event is surprisingly simple.President Susan Hockfield will formally become the 16th president of MIT when she accepts the...
View ArticleRobot contest puts design into action
MIT's 35th annual festival of anguish, elation and extreme engineering--the 2.007 Mech E Design Contest--takes place on May 12 and 13 at 6 p.m. in Johnson Athletic Center. The mother of all robot...
View ArticleUncommon music composed to honor president
The live music for Susan Hockfield's inauguration combines multicultural, ancient and modern elements thanks to four diverse works commissioned for the event Friday, May 6, in Killian Court."Sabar...
View ArticleConcerts showcase MIT's musical talents
Gustav Mahler's Sixth Symphony is not for the faint of heart. "Exhilarating," "cathartic" and "devastating" are some of the adjectives that listeners and critics have used to describe this famous and...
View ArticleProfessors discuss value of uncommon connections
From an engineer working with a gymnastics coach to a chemist's collaboration with surgeons, MIT researchers continue to conduct the interdisciplinary research that the Institute was founded on....
View ArticleRobot 'zoo' is a class act
Icarus and Mostly Harmless were among the machines on hand at a robotic "petting zoo" May 5 held in honor of the inauguration of President Susan Hockfield. As Hockfield and her family looked on,...
View ArticleInaugural address
Inaugural address by Susan Hockfield, 16th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered May 6, 2005:Thank you! To all of you gathered here in the great embrace of Killian Court--to...
View ArticleHockfield asks MIT to solve world's woes
At her formal inauguration as MIT's 16th president this afternoon, Susan Hockfield announced a new initiative on energy and the environment and said that the Institute should combine its "historic...
View ArticleArt, technology links explored
MIT faculty discussed political, personal and practical aspects of the relationship between art and technology in a symposium held Wednesday, May 4, in the Kirsch Auditorium to honor the inauguration...
View ArticleInvocation
The Rev. Amy McCreath, MIT's Episcopal chaplain, gave the following invocation at the inauguration of Susan Hockfield as the Institute's 16th president on Friday, May 6, in Killian...
View ArticleThousands party hearty at inaugural celebration
Driving rain and high winds did not stop more than 3,000 people from making the trek to Johnson Athletics Center to attend the Uncommon Block Party, the culminating event of a week of activities...
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