Jessica Liu

James Williamson leaves a message on the wall dedicated to “Remembrances of Aaron and Notes for the Swartz Family” at the memorial for Aaron Swartz held in the Media Lab Tuesday evening. See news coverage on page 6.

Alexander C. Klein ’15 serves for MIT against Harvard.

Robert M. Randolph was appointed MIT’s first Chaplain to the Institute in September 2007. Randolph also serves as Bexley’s housemaster.

Professor of Computer Science Leslie Pack Kaelbling

William Tashman ’13 scores in the Men’s Basketball NEWMAC semifinal game against Babson College on Saturday. The Engineers maintained an early lead to defeat Babson 65-42.

Alexander C. Klein ’15 serves for MIT in Saturday’s game against Harvard.

Alexander C. Klein ’15 spikes the ball during Saturday’s men’s volleyball game against Harvard. The Engineers won the first set 15-25, but lost 3-1 to Harvard overall in the Rockwell Cage.

The Men’s Volleyball team prepares to play a point in Saturday’s game against Harvard. Despite starting strong, the Engineers lost to the Crimson last week by 3-1.

The MIT Men’s Freshman 8+ Crew races Northeastern University during the Alumni Cup on Apr. 2. The Engineers lost to Northeastern’s Freshman A boat, but defeated its Freshman B boat to finish second, after Columbia wit...

Boats gather on the Charles River to watch the fireworks display.

Alumni and friends dance to music by Boston City Rhythm during the Toast to Tech event on Saturday.

Fireworks light up the sky in front of the Prudential Center, MIT’s 750 feet high (134.32 Smoot) “birthday card.”

Danielle A. Hinton G, PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is hooded by Chancellor W. Eric L. Grimson PhD ’80 and interim department head Srini Devadas in Rockwell Cage midda...

“Dis(Course)4” was recently installed in the Building 3 stairwell by Craig A. Boney G, James R. Coleman G, and Andrew J. Manto G for the MIT150 Festival of Art, Science and Technology (FAST). The installation is compo...

The steps and sidewalks in front of the Stratton Student Center are being repaired with fresh concrete, expected to continue until late April.

Course 6 — Stata Center — Guttag Lab. The Guttag lab uses computer science to solve medical problems and design medical technology. Guttag’s work includes the development of both software-based medical instrumentation...

Course 7 — Whitehead Institute — Weinberg Lab. The Weinberg lab investigates cancer stem cells and mechanisms of metastasis. Ras, the first human oncogene, was discovered by the Weinberg lab in 1979.

Course 3 — Building 8 — Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory. Students use the teaching laboratories to study biomaterials, chemical synthesis, and physical and electronic properties in 3.014 and 3.042.

Course 4 — Building 7 — Architecture Studio. Students take classes, work on projects, and sometimes sleep in the architecture studio.

Course 8 — Building 4 — Physics Junior Lab. In Junior Lab, students reproduce defining experiments from modern physics. J-Lab students verify the value of the elementary charge, determine the structure of the Milky Wa...

Course 5 — Building 18 — Lippard Lab. Research at the Lippard lab focuses on bioinorganic chemistry. In particular, Lippard studies platinum anticancer drugs, metalloenzyme models, bacterial multicomponent monooxygena...

Course 10 — Building 66 — Gleason Lab. The Gleason Lab uses chemical vapor deposition of thin-film polymers to create sensors. The lab has been creating a solar cell from these polymers, which can be deposited on virt...

Course 16 — Building 37 — Man Vehicle Lab. The MVL studies the cognitive and physiological limitations imposed by spaceflight. Dava J. Newman’s PhD ’92’s BioSuit spacesuit concept would give astronauts an unprecedente...

Course 2 ­— Building 3 — Pappalardo Lab. The Pappalardo Lab is the Course 2 undergraduate teaching laboratory and is home to MIT’s primary machine shop. Many mechanical engineering classes, including 2.004 (Dynamics a...

Course 20 — Building 16 — Niles Lab. The Niles lab uses biochemical methods to engineer tools for studying infectious diseases and model organisms. Niles’s current work focuses on malaria parasite biology and controll...

The corridor between Buildings 56 and 66 is closed until Feb. 21 in order to install a structure for the MIT 150 FAST Arts Festival. The festival, which celebrates the integration of art, science, and technology at MI...

Ravi Chandran ’14 speaks to a member of the MIT Corporation about the sayno petition. The protesters were giving copies of the petition to members of the Corporation as they arrived for their quarterly meeting. The sa...

Harry Potter (Benjamin N. Bell ’14) explores MIT with the help of the Marauder’s Map.

Harry visits one of the underground tunnels near building 66. Chairs are almost as good as brooms!

32-4: This outdoor tunnel doesn’t lead to the Shrieking Shack... just an exit facing Building 16.

Harry stares out at the Boston skyline from a mysterious balcony. Where is he? Hint: this is a dormitory.

E14-6: Harry contemplates anti-Voldemort tactics in the penthouse conference room of the New Media Lab.

The Campaign for Sanitizer: On Monday, the Senate passed a bill requiring that personal hygiene supplies be placed in reading rooms from the last day of classes to the last day of finals. Senators also discussed campu...

Kresge Oval remains an expanse of bare dirt, devoid of grass for nearly four weeks. Norman H. Magnuson, Jr., manager of grounds for Facilities, said last week that the grass will be back and the field usable before Th...

Chancellor Phillip L. Clay PhD ’75, Dean for Student Life Chris Colombo, and Dean for Undergraduate Education Daniel E. Hastings PhD ’80 answer questions about dining, housing, and the budget during a UA Senate meetin...

Patrick J. Vatterott ’13 spikes the ball in the men’s volleyball match against Endicott College in Rockwell Cage on Tuesday. The Engineers fell to Endicott in the last set.

The MIT Logarhythms practice for their Valentine’s Day serenades in 4-152 on Tuesday. Both the Logs and the Muses will be singing a mix of classic and modern love songs all around campus today.

OCW’s budget saw a $500,000 decrease in the 2009 fiscal year. Plans for increased revenue include a “Course Champions” pilot campaign and continued use of referral links.

Students simulate a Wall Street trading pit during the Intercollegiate Trading Competition hosted by Traders@MIT in the Stata Center on Saturday. Ninety students from nine schools, including MIT, participated in the c...

Andrea Y. Park ’13 jumps in an attempt to assure a goal scored by Alisha D. Lussiez ’12 during the Engineers’ soccer game versus Clark University. The goal secured the win for MIT, which won 2-0.

President Obama shakes hands with members of the audience following his speech about clean energy at Kresge on Friday. MIT was given 200 tickets to allocate; Kresge’s maximum capacity is 1,000 people.

President Barack Obama speaks about clean energy at Kresge on Friday. Obama’s speech followed a tour of several MIT labs that do energy-related research.

President Barack Obama speaks about his administration’s energy policy and MIT’s Energy Initiative at Kresge Auditorium on Friday. The President started his speech jovially mentioning that MIT hackers had placed his m...

MIT Capriccio members Serdar Karatekin ’10, Xavier R. Gonzalez ’10, and Manuel L. Rivera ’10 perform during the 4th annual Cena a las Seis in Morss Hall on Saturday. Other events included performances by MIT Casino Ru...

Cecily L. Joujon-Roche ’12 spikes the ball during the women’s volleyball game against St. Lawrence University in Rockwell Cage on Saturday. MIT defeated St. Lawrence to place second in the MIT Quad Tournament. Eastern...