John A. Hawkinson

Outgoing Dean for Undergraduate Education Daniel E. Hastings PhD ’80 and current Dean for Graduate Education Christine Ortiz at the picnic held in Dean Hastings’ honor on Monday afternoon.

Commonwealth Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki speaks to the Cambridge City Council on Monday evening, in favor of MIT’s petition to rezone its part of Kendall Square.

MIT President L. Rafael Reif spoke last night before the Cambridge City Council in favor of MIT’s zoning petition for Kendall Square. It was the first time Reif had spoken before the council. He was accompanied by fac...

At the MIT-Harvard snowball fight held outside the Cambridge Public Library on Sunday, Harvard students prepare to launch an attack.

MIT hasn’t published a printed annual report since 2005. The Institute Archives and Special Collections in 14N-118 have printed copies of prior annual reports.

The Cambridge Fire Department responded to MIT five times on Sunday night to vandalism by a Boston University student. Within a few minutes of each other, fire pull stations in the Student Center (W20) and Kresge Audi...

MIT’s little dome is no longer a part of the Cambridge skyline when viewed across the Harvard Bridge from Boston. The Pfizer building, under construction at 610 Main Street, rises up behind it, almost eclipsing it. MI...

William C. Cutter conducts the MIT Concert Choir on Wednesday evening in Lobby 7 during their Community Sing.

A crane lifted a piece of the skylight onto the Great Dome on Monday. The skylight is expected to be installed by January.

Cambridge elections workers start to receive results on Tuesday evening at the Cambridge Senior Center, 780 Massachusetts Avenue. The City’s 33 precincts deliver their counts electronically, as well as the physical ba...

Hundreds gathered for the 3rd annual East Cambridge Ribfest last Sunday on Fulkerson Street. $2 ribs from some of Cambridge’s best, including the East Side Bar, Midwest Grill, and Redbones.

Aaron H. Swartz, accused of mass downloading over two million documents from the JSTOR online journal archive with the intent to distribute them, exits federal court in Boston yesterday morning. Swartz appeared for an...

Susan Yanow, of the Area 4 Neighborhood Coaliton, protests the further development of Central Square on Monday in front of City Hall. Other protesters held signs with “Don’t Kendalize Central” and “No Permit 4 Forest ...

Fake eyes appeared perched atop Lobby 7 on May 17.

Local government and MIT administration officials, among many other faculty, students, and staff, gathered in 10-250 Wednesday afternoon to welcome President-elect L. Rafael Reif. Second row, from left: Cambridge City...

A procession of past, present, and future MIT presidents enter 10-250 on Wednesday afternoon. From back, President-elect L. Rafael Reif, MIT’s 16th President Susan J. Hockfield, 15th President Charles M. Vest, and 14t...

This photo is left-right reversed: Workers from Community Builders Cooperative started to renovate Toscanini’s Ice Cream in Central Square yesterday. The renovations will be done and the store reopened on Wednesday ev...

Workers install an image on the side of N52, the MIT Museum, for an exhibit in the Kurtz Gallery — Berenice Abbott, Photography and Science: An Essential Unity, which runs May 3, 2012 through Dec. 31, 2012.

Architects Toshiko Mori and Maya Lin, center, break ground for Novartis’ new building at 181 Massachusetts Ave. The new building, on the former Analog Devices lot, should start to rise up in early 2013. To the right o...

Mystery Hunt participants gather in Lobby 7 last Friday at noon to receive instructions before they begin solving puzzles. They learned that the theme of this year’s hunt is making bad Broadway musicals, based on the ...

Members of the hosting team “Borbonicus and Bodley” on one of the Lobby 7 plinths during the opening ceremony on Friday.

Architect Toshiko Mori presents her design for 22 Windsor Street to the Cambridge Planning Board. It is the second new building within Novartis’ new campus on the east side of Massachusetts Avenue.

Hackers deployed a banner on Tuesday morning over Building 7 marking the end of the so-called “November rule.” The November rule discourages upperclassmen from becoming involved with freshmen beyond friendship or intr...

Dumbing down MIT? Smart Street, amidst the new Novartis campus off of Mass. Ave., is closed indefinitely for future construction. Construction is expected to begin in earnest next year.

Yet another camera (left) was recently added to those monitoring campus from atop the Green Building. The new camera, ensconsced in its dome on the south-east corner of the rooftop, appears to be remotely controllable...

UA President Vrajesh Y. Modi ’11 is serenaded by the MIT Muses prior to the Valentine’s Day UA Senate meeting. The Logarhythms and the Muses both sell Valentine’s Day serenades each year.

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.

The Security and Emergency Management Office conducted a drill Thursday on the 4th floor of W20 with members of MIT’s Campus Community Emergency Response Team. In the simulated drill, an explosion took place in the Ed...

About 50 potential bidders attended a Q&A meeting Monday about the City’s urban planning study on the future of Kendall and Central squares. The city has budgeted about $200,000 for the study.

H. Theodore Cohen, one of seven members of the Cambridge Planning Board, speaks at the Dec. 21, 2010 meeting.

A camera atop Building 54 looks toward the Harvard Bridge. According to Thomas W. Komola, manager of the Security and Emergency Management Office, the camera (and its counterpart, pointed towards the river in front o...

Anna L. Tang appeared at a hearing in Middlesex Superior Court on December 30. Tang was recently found not guilty (by reason of mental illness) of stabbing Wolfe B. Styke ‘10 in October 2007.

Anna L. Tang was found not guilty by reason of insanity by Middlesex Superior Court judge Bruce R. Henry. The judge ordered her to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Riggers installed the new Jaume Plensa sculpture between the Student Center (W20) and Massachusetts Avenue yesterday.

Promoters of the most recent campus dining petition late Wednesday night plastered the door of Chris Colombo, Dean for Student Life, with signs saying “sayNO.mit.edu,” the website of the petition.

Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz ’49 introduced his documentary Nuclear Tipping Point in E51 last Friday.

Gregory Gaultier of France retrieves a tough return hit by Amr Shamana of Egypt during the Showdown@Symphony squash tournament on Wednesday. Each of the four professional squash players invited to play in the tourname...

A camera mount was installed on the south-west corner of the Green Building yesterday. It is pointed directly at Maseeh Hall (W1).

Defendant Anna L. Tang and her attorney Robert A. George at her status conference Friday, August 27.

Assistant District Attorney Suzanne M. Kontz argues against Tang’s request to attend a mobile app development class at Boston University. Tang has been under house arrest since late 2007.

Cameras were installed at the Tech Shuttle stop outside the Student Center on July 29. The cameras were installed to discourage dumping of trash in the nearby dumpster reserved for single-stream recycling.

Wolfe B. Styke ’10 testifies on the opening day of the Commonwealth v. Anna Tang on Friday. Tang, a former Wellesley student, stabbed Styke while he was sleeping in his dormitory room at Next House in October 2007. Th...

Jed W. Wartman thanks students and says goodbye during the 2010 Student Leader Awards Ceremony on May 14 in Morss Hall. Jed and his wife, Brynn Hale Wartman, are relocating to Colby College in central Maine.

MIT students swarm an “entire room giveaway” in E60, posted to the reuse mailing list. Steven G. Banzaert emailed the list giving away the contents of a room that housed several robotics teams, between the hours of 3–...

Anna Tang’s trial date is postponed at a hearing in Middlesex Superior Court on May 24. The agreement was reached between Assistant District Attorney Susanne Kontz, Tang’s attorney Robert A. George, and Justice Bruce ...

Workers from Cadwell Sign Co. lift a plaque into place in Lobby 7 on Tuesday. A gift of the Class of 2003, the plaque is mounted on the east wall, just right of the Infinite Corridor entrance.

MIT Police examine the area on the first floor of Building 2, where the incident took place.

MIT Police question Jason Reed in connection with a sexual assault shortly after 3:45 a.m. on Tuesday morning. Reed was charged with rape and trespassing.

MIT Police question Jason Reed in connection with a sexual assault shortly after 3:45 a.m. this morning. Reed was arrested on two counts of rape and one count of trespassing.

Bike locks left behind after bicycles were removed from under Bldg. 9 in preparation for Obama’s visit.