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Beauty and Brains. Physics major and Miss Boston contestant Dianna L. Cowern ’11.

Beauty and Brains. Physics major and Miss Boston contestant Dianna L. Cowern ’11.

Beauty and Brains. Physics major and Miss Boston contestant Dianna L. Cowern ’11.

Stephen T. Frost ’13 and Caitlin R. Pomeroy ’13 unveil the bezel of the 2013 Brass Rat on Friday night. The bezel features the beaver, who clutches a branch with four leaves, and a framing square in the shape of a sev...

Professor W. Eric L. Grimson PhD ’80, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was named as the next chancellor of MIT on Thursday afternoon. He will assume his new role on March 1.

Changes might be coming to the Number 1 Bus route. The MBTA has proposed that some stops along Massachusetts Ave. be eliminated, and buses could be given traffic signaling priority.

Anna L. Tang listens as defense attorney Robert A. George argues that she should not be committed to a mental institution. The prosecution presented no testimony or evidence in favor of such commitment, he said.

Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass) observes a demonstration by Materials Science and Engineering and Biology Engineering Professor Angela M. Belcher during a tour of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT.

The MIT Golf team makes use of the Paul Rudovsky Indoor Training Room for practice.

The MIT Men’s Hockey team prepares for a game against Merrimack on Tuesday evening.

Trader Joe’s 2010 Vintage Ale

Aeronautics and Astronautics Professor Ian A. Waitz will become MIT’s sixteenth Dean of the School of Engineering on February 7. He succeeds Subra Suresh, whom President Obama nominated to head the National Science Fo...

Christie S. Chiu ’13 and Nicholas J. Torgerson ’13 shoot during sport pistol team practice on Wednesday.

Kristin D. Watkins ’11 practices on the balance beam on Wednesday.

Jacob T. Shapiro ’11 stretches during gymnastics club practice. Seven of the eight teams stripped of varsity status were reinstated as club sports.