http://tech.mit.edu/img/small-flag-inv.gif http://tech.mit.edu/ Recent photos and graphics from The Tech /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident.html bruno b. F. faviero—The Tech Rafael Reif will be MIT’s 17th president. At a press conference on Wednesday morning, Reif said he would commit his presidency to advancing education, as he has already been doing though the MITx/edX initiative. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-8.html christopher a. maynor—The Tech Rafael Reif shakes hands with Paul M. Kominers ’12 at a student-sponsored reception for the president-elect. /V132/N26/graphics/cellphones-3.html Courtesy of MIT IS&T DC power to the antennas and amplifiers is supplied by these power converters. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-22.html tiffany ira huang—The Tech MIT celebrated their 16th president in Killian Court on Thursday. Hockfield makes a speech directed at the community, offering reflections of her time as president. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-4.html christopher a. maynor—The Tech President-elect Rafael Reif greets students at an evening event in the Stata Center on Wednesday. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-15.html john a. hawkinson—The Tech Local government and MIT administration officials, among many other faculty, students, and staff, gathered in 10-250 Wednesday afternoon to welcome President-elect L. Rafael Reif. Second row, from left: Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy, Cambridge Mayor Henrietta Davis, Chancellor Eric Grimson PhD ’80, Executive Vice President and Treasurer Israel Ruiz SM ’01, Vice President and Secretary of the MIT Corporation Kirk D. Kolenbrander, Dean for Graduate Education Christine Ortiz. First row, from left: Christine Reif, President-elect Rafael Reif, President Susan J. Hockfield, former President Charles M. Vest, and former President Paul E. Gray ’54. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-12.html christopher a. maynor—The Tech Rafael Reif delivered remarks to students Wednesday evening, recounting his lifelong journey starting in Venezuela and culminating in his election to the MIT presidency this morning. /V132/N26/graphics/kyaw-1.html Source: WHDH channel 7 Kyaw’s bike crushed beneath the tanker truck. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-17.html tiffany ira huang—The Tech Rafael Reif discusses his dedication to continue involvement with the MIT community. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-10.html christopher a. maynor—The Tech Student advisory group members gave Reif Brass Rat-style napkin rings as a welcoming gift. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-16.html Tiffany ira huang—The Tech A press conference was held on Wednesday on the sixth floor of the new Media Lab /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-14.html john a. hawkinson—The Tech A procession of past, present, and future MIT presidents enter 10-250 on Wednesday afternoon. From back, President-elect L. Rafael Reif, MIT’s 16th President Susan J. Hockfield, 15th President Charles M. Vest, and 14th President Paul E. Gray ’54 /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-18.html tiffany ira huang—The Tech The Tech has an exclusive interview with the new president after the Wednesday press conference. /V132/N26/graphics/kyaw-2.html Source: WHDH channel 7 A wide angle shot of Kyaw’s bike and the tanker truck at the scene of the accident. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-5.html christopher a. maynor—The Tech Students were invited by the UA and GSC to meet the president-elect. Dozens showed up to meet Reif, hear brief remarks, and enjoy light refreshments. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-2.html Bruno B. F. Faviero—The Tech Provost L. Rafael Reif and his wife Christine leave the Bush room in Building 10 shortly after his election as MIT’s 17th president. Reif will take over from President Susan J. Hockfield on July 2. /V132/N26/graphics/cellphones-4.html Source: MIT Information services and technology The Distributed Antenna System in place. /V132/N26/graphics/activism.html Connor Kirschbaum—The Tech /V132/N26/graphics/cellphones-1.html Source: MIT Information services and technology A schematic diagram of the equipment in the cell phone upgrade project. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-23.html TIFFANY IRA HUANG—The Tech Reif with pancakes! The president-elect serves pancakes to MIT students at the Flapjacks for Finals event at Lobdell on Sunday. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-21.html tiffany ira huang—The Tech Chancellor Grimson shakes hands with President Hockfield after commending her various accomplishments as president. /V132/N26/graphics/kyaw-3.html Source: Massachusetts State Police The State Police’s collision analysis and reconstruction drawing of the accident. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-20.html tiffany ira huang—The Tech President Hockfield, taken by surprise at the sudden appearance of the flash mob after her speech. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-3.html christopher a. maynor—The Tech Christine Reif, the president-elect’s wife, greets students in the Stata Center on Wednesday. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-9.html christopher A. maynor—The Tech Bryan Owens Bryson G and Amanda C. David ’13, both members of the student advisory group to the presidential search committee, welcomed Reif as president on Wednesday evening in the Stata Center. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-11.html christopher A. maynor—The Tech Reif also received a poster-sized hacker’s map, which shows MIT’s underground tunnel network. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-7.html christopher a. maynor—The Tech Student well-wishers left messages for the new president in a guestbook at a Stata Center meet-and-greet event. /V132/N26/graphics/avengers.html photo by Zade Rosenthal © 2011 MVLFFLLC. TM & © 2011 Marvel. Captain America (Chris Evans) and Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in The Avengers. /V132/N26/graphics/newpresident-19.html tiffany ira huang—The Tech A flash mob wielding various flags of the world appeared shortly after President Hockfield’s speech. The mob danced in the middle of Killian Court before high-fiving Susan Hockfield personally. /V132/N26/graphics/cellphones-2.html Source: MIT Information services and technology Support equipment for AT&T’s “4G LTE” is currently being installed. /V132/N26/graphics/cellphones.html Melissa Renée Schumaker—The Tech A “white cone” antenna, top center, will support enhanced cell phone reception inside MIT buildings. /V132/N26/graphics/baker.html Michael R. Glombicki Baker residents are forced to sleep in the fifth floor of the student center, among other places, on Sunday morning after a vandal discharged a fire extinguisher on the first, second, and third floors of the dormitory. The alarm went off at 2 a.m. and again at 4:30 a.m. that morning; residents were not allowed back in until 9:45 a.m. /V132/N26/graphics/dlab.html Melissa Renée Schumacher—The Tech Rebecca A. Vasquez ’12 demonstrates the Narrow Rickshaw project at the D-Lab showcase at the MIT Museum on Saturday. /V132/N26/graphics/upmovie.html Tami Forrester—The Tech MIT students gather on Kresge Lawn Sunday evening to watch the UA’s showing of Pixar’s Up. /V132/N26/graphics/stave.html /V132/N26/graphics/idt.html By Manohar Srikanth Staff Photographer The idea behind the shot was to get the wide angle perspective of the Simmons Hall, with trail of clouds in the background. The vertical facade, because of the camera position and perspective, gives the illusion of a horizontal surface. To get the type of cloud trails displayed here, the sky needs a variety of scattered moving clouds. The camera needs to be set for a long exposure, typically minutes, depending on the desired length of trails and current speed of clouds. For this photo, the camera was put on remote bulb mode to expose for 95 seconds. The aperture was set to f/9 so that the depth of field is wide and also to reduce the amount of light coming into the camera over the long exposure. The focus was set to hyper-focal length corresponding to f/9, to obtained reasonable overall sharpness. Because the facades are not uniformly illuminated, a hand held flash gun was fired to fill light in darker areas. A sturdy tripod was used to avoid blurring due to wind. The editing steps involved correcting for exposure by editing the curves. The saturation was boosted to bring out the details in the colored windows. The image was edited in Photoshop to remove branches of the trees on the top side of the image. Aperture: ƒ/9.0 Exposure Time: 95.0 sec. Sensitivity: ISO 200 Effective Focal Length: 21 mm /V132/N26/graphics/ohms.html Tami Forrester—The Tech Varun K. Ganesan ’14 and Aditya S. Kalluri ’13 open the Brohmance a capella concert, put on by the Ohms, on Saturday night.