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Slideshow: 2014 doctoral hooding ceremony

Advanced degree candidates receive their doctoral hoods in advance of Commencement.
Members of the MIT faculty (foreground) and graduates' friends and families (background) turned out in large numbers for the hooding ceremony.
Members of the MIT faculty (foreground) and graduates' friends and families (background) turned out in large numbers for the hooding ceremony.
Photo: Dominick Reuter
Photo: Dominick Reuter
Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart was on hand to salute the advanced degree candidates.
Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart was on hand to salute the advanced degree candidates.
Photo: Dominick Reuter
This year's doctoral hooding ceremony was held in the Johnson Athletics Center.
This year's doctoral hooding ceremony was held in the Johnson Athletics Center.
Photo: Dominick Reuter
Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart (left) watches as Mitchel Resnick of the MIT Media Lab prepares to hood a degree candidate.
Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart (left) watches as Mitchel Resnick of the MIT Media Lab prepares to hood a degree candidate.
Photo: Dominick Reuter
Three-month-old Colin Fucetola is held by Dottie Fucetola, who made her grandson's regalia. The two were guests of Colin's father, Corey Fucetola, a PhD candidate in electrical engineering.
Three-month-old Colin Fucetola is held by Dottie Fucetola, who made her grandson's regalia. The two were guests of Colin's father, Corey Fucetola, a PhD candidate in electrical engineering.
Photo: Dominick Reuter
This academic year, MIT has awarded 594 doctoral degrees, including those conferred earlier in the year, in September and February.
This academic year, MIT has awarded 594 doctoral degrees, including those conferred earlier in the year, in September and February.
Photo: Dominick Reuter
Photo: Dominick Reuter
Today's weather required umbrellas and ponchos to protect academic regalia.
Today's weather required umbrellas and ponchos to protect academic regalia.
Photo: Dominick Reuter
Photo: Dominick Reuter
Members of the MIT faculty (right) rose to salute the Institute's newest recipients of advanced academic degrees.
Members of the MIT faculty (right) rose to salute the Institute's newest recipients of advanced academic degrees.
Photo: Dominick Reuter
Hundreds of degree candidates and their friends and families attended today's doctoral hooding ceremony in the Johnson Athletics Center.
Hundreds of degree candidates and their friends and families attended today's doctoral hooding ceremony in the Johnson Athletics Center.
Photo: Dominick Reuter
Photo: Dominick Reuter
This academic year, MIT has awarded 594 doctoral degrees, including those conferred earlier in the year, in September and February.
This academic year, MIT has awarded 594 doctoral degrees, including those conferred earlier in the year, in September and February.
Photo: Dominick Reuter

At MIT, advanced degree candidates receive their doctoral hoods in a separate ceremony held the day before Commencement. This academic year, MIT has awarded 594 doctoral degrees, including those conferred earlier in the year, in September and February.

This year’s ceremony for the newly minted PhDs and ScDs took place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today, June 5, in the Johnson Athletics Center, where Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart greeted the new graduates.

Faculty representatives from departments across campus assisted in awarding students their hoods.

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