Arts – MIT Spectrum

David Kazdan ’81 (right, with a classmate) at opening night of the Jacqueline Casey poster exhibit at the Burton House Gallery.

The Burton House Gallery: In the ’80s, MIT Students Brought Art into Their Dorm

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If Da Vinci Had an Electron Microscope…

MIT Dome at night

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2016

Data in a Major Key

Michael Scott Cuthbert advances musical analysis with his new music21 software.

A 3-cm drop of ferrofluid on a glass slide. A slip of yellow paper sits below the slide and a set of seven small circular magnets under the paper affects the form of the drop. Image: Wikipedia/Frankel/CC-By-3.0

A Photographer Gives Scientists a New Visual Vocabulary

Image: Courtesy Sunnyside Records

The Reviews Are In: Five Stars for MIT Jazz

Debra Wise, Robert Najarian, and Steven Barkhimer in the 2007 CC@MIT production of Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams. Photo: Elizabeth Stewart/Libberding Photography

Physicist and Novelist Alan Lightman Looks Back on a Decade of Science on Stage

Seth Mnookin is an associate professor of science writing at MIT and author of the 2011 book The Panic Virus. Image: Seth Mnookin/MIT News

Data Needed to Dispel Vaccine Fears—But Not the Kind You Think

Annual Origami Convention Brings Aspiring Paper Artists into the Fold

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A Lesson in Color, Inspired by a Physics Professor