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Ásbjörg Kristinsdóttir, PhD candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, receives her doctoral hood from Chancellor Eric Grimson PhD ’80 and department head Andrew Whittle ScD ’87 in Rockwell Ca...

Work has been going on in Killian Court for the past several days in preparation for President Reif’s inauguration ceremony. There are special events this entire week culminating in the presidential inauguration on Fr...

Concerns about the Koch Institute’s frontage on Main Street, above, have been repeatedly brought up by Cambridge Planning Board. See sidebar article, p. 7. Some board members felt there is too much dead space in Main ...

Sections of Boston were engulfed in smoke on Tuesday evening, resulting from an electrical fire. A transformer burst into flames at 40 Dalton Street, across from a parking garage at the Back Bay Hilton. About 21,000 c...

Housemasters Merritt Roe Smith and Bronywn Melquist at their apartment in Burton-Conner. This will be their last year as housemasters.

An impromptu memorial for Steve Jobs has sprung up on his granite tile in Kendall Square’s Entrepreneur Walk of Fame.

An HDR capture of W59 as seen at sunset. The building is newly adorned with scaffolding, and exterior work is being done. W59 currently houses the ROTC, Campus Dining, Housing, and Residential Life offices.

As part of Bad Ideas weekend, students in East Campus baked 10,000 cookies.

Qiaodan Jin Stone ’13 reads the tab to the table she is waiting on at Deli Haus. The wait-staff at Deli Haus are usually dressed in a punk style.

Professor and associate head of the physics department Krishna Rajagopal loves teaching, but also has an appreciation for photography.

Norvin W. Richards, professor of linguistics and philosophy, has deep insights into both linguistics and teaching.

Professor Krishna Rajagopal, Professor Norvin W. Richards PhD ’97, Professor Rajeev J. Ram, and Associate Professor Anette E. “Peko” Hosoi, were named MacVicar Fellows on Tuesday.

Anette E. “Peko” Hosoi, who is currently on sabbatical at Harvard, shows some of the things she’s been working on while away from MIT. Hosoi was recently chosen as a MacVicar fellow.

MIT Natya members perform Sakti: Women of Power in Little Kresge on Feb. 15.

Forward Liz Theurer 10 successfully bounces a kick away from two Wheaton pursuers during a home game on Tuesday. The Engineers ultimately fell to the Lyons 2-0 during the shutout.

Rebecca J. Heywood ’12 presents her team’s design for a build-it-yourself night light on Wednesday, March 4 as part of 2.00B (Toy Product Design). Each team got a chance to present four ideas that centered around this...

MacVicar winner Daniel Jackson, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was nominated by students and faculty for his contributions to teaching. Jackson studies software engineering in CSAIL’s Softwa...

MIT Natya members perform Sakti: Women of Power in Little Kresge on Sunday.

Mathura J. Sridharan ’11 (left) and Renuka Ramanathan ’10 portray Kannagi and Kovalan in MIT Natya’s show Shakti: Women of Power in Little Kresge on Sunday.

In 2007, the One Laptop Per Child foundation began production of the XO laptop (pictured). The laptop faced challenges in the market from for-profit competition, including Intel’s Classmate PC. The XO, well-known as t...

Lagos Analysis Corp. filed a lawsuit in Nigeria against the One Laptop Per Child Foundation saying the project copied its multilingual keyboard technology. The company is based in Natick, Mass.

Spring Break at MIT.

Undergraduate Association President-elect Martin F. Holmes '08 and Vice President-elect Ali S. Wyne '08 talk with Wendi Zhang '08 on Thursday.