Professor Kenneth Goodson, chair of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford, is doused by Damena Agonafer, a postdoctoral researcher in his lab. As Stanford colleagues cheered, Goodson responded to a dare issued by Professor Gang Chen, his counterpart at MIT. Both department heads took the plunge on the Friday before Labor Day 2014.
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