Education | M. Scott Brauer - Seattle photographer

MIT Commencement 2016 - Killian Court - MIT - Friday, June 3, 2016. Cambridge, MA, USA.

Undergraduate student Tiandra Ray is a senior in MIT's Department of Architecture in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Her work uses patterns of light derived from nature that, when placed in a campus environment, help promote a mentally healthy space.

Students dance during a Jazz Performance class at the Holmes Athletic Center at Simmons College, one of the Colleges of the Fenway, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Mon., March 13, 2017. The students were preparing for their Spring Showcase performance in April.

Sara Seager is a Professor of Planetary Science and Physics at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She holds the Class of 1941 Professorship Chair and her research focuses on computer models of exoplanets, including their interiors and atmospheres. She is seen here in her office in MIT's Green Building, Building 54.

David Kaufman (colored hair) Andres Erbsen (blond hair) At the HackMIT hackathon in the Johnson Ice Rink at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. They were creating a device that would be a DIY RFID reader.

Graduating students celebrate as they leave Killian Court after the 2014 Commencement at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Guillermo Bernal is a graduate student and research assistant in the Fluid Interfaces Group led by Pattie Maes at MIT's Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, seen here on Tues., April 25, 2017. Bernal is working on circuit design here for analog sensing of physiological changes to the human body experienced when using a virtual reality apparatus. He has worked on a VR experience called EmotionalBeasts and a sensor system called PhysioHMD that works with a VR device to sense changes to skin resistance, body temperature, and other physiological factors.

MIT Vice President for Research Maria Zuber (in white) meets with Planetary Science graduate student Anton Ermakov (in blue) and Geophysics postdoc Min Ding (in purpole) to discuss their ongoing research.

Senior Adwoa Boakye works alongside other students on a lab for course 6.002 Circuits and Electronics in a student lab in Building 38 at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The project was the first group lab and focused on measuring output in metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) to see if observed results match theoretical predictions.

Graduating MIT students gather in the Johnson Athletics Center to line up for the 2014 Commencement ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Assistant Professor of Geology David Szymanski of Bentley University's Department of Natural and Applied Science leads students in a discussion about pollution and water supplies in a seminar of the NASE402 Science in Environmental Policy course in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. The class involves an optional extra section that includes a trip to Washington, D.C., to meet with policy makers and discuss the role of science in making government policy.

Mechanical Engineering junior Wei Xun He works on a prototype for a wearable device that captures a person's motion during a desk critique session in the first design studio class in the new D-Minor design minor at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Thurs., Nov. 3, 2016.

Members of the Traveling Research Environmental Experiences (TREX) program, under the leadership of Professor Jesse Kroll, assemble custom sensors to study the environmental effects of volcanic smog and collect and analyze soil samples from Mt. Kilauea in Hawaii.

Instructor Tricia Gibb (center, seated) helps Emily Stephens (center standing, 19, 1st year) with a sketch of a still life during the first class of the year in Foundations And Painting class in a painting studio at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA, on Mon., Oct. 2, 2018. The New Hampshire Institute of Art and New England College will consolidating into one school under the New England College name. The art school will be known as the Institute of Art at New England College once the merger is complete.

Runners recover after running the Beaver Dash, a 5k run held in celebration of the inauguration of MIT's 17th president L. Rafael Reif, at Steinbrenner Stadium on the campus of MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.