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The MIT-EMS ambulance parked outside Building 9.

Daniel D. Jimenez ’10 learns how to perform CPR on a dummy in La Sala de Puerto Rico on April 3, 2008 in an event sponsored by MIT-EMS.

A factory worker studies proofs inside a retaken factory in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Chilavert.

All of the universities that I visited had some version of a giant Chairman Mao statue. This one is at Fudan University in Shanghai.

The gas main which feeds NW30 was broken at 2:30 p.m. yesterday by employees of Bond Brothers working on the NW35 project. As a precaution, buildings NW21 and NW30 were evacuated by the Cambridge Fire Department. The ...

Amy S. Ludlum ’08 dribbles in space in the women’s soccer game against the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Tuesday. The Engineers triumphed over the Corsairs 6-1, despite the heavy rain.

Undergraduate Association President Martin F. Holmes ’08 speaks with The Tech about his goals for the year and gives advice to freshmen about how to get more involved.

Benjamin M. Huan ’11 lands a kick to the backside of SUNY Albany’s Owen Smith during the A-team (advanced) sparring competition at the MIT Sport Taekwondo Tournament held in the Johnson Athletics Center on Saturday, O...

(foreground, from left) Undergraduate Association Senate Speaker Jason C. Forte ’09, Vice President for Institute Affairs and Secretary of the MIT Corporation Kirk D. Kolenbrander, President Susan J. Hockfield, and UA...

John A. Ochsendorf, seen in his office at MIT, is a 2008 MacArthur Fellow for his work in preserving historic structures and recovering ancient technology. Ochsendorf uses his knowledge as a structural engineer to stu...

The Media Lab extension construction site is seen on Thursday afternoon from the intersection of Ames Street and Amherst Street.

Grad Ring Committee chair Shahriar R. Khushrushahi G describes elements of the new Grad Rat to an audience of graduate students. The design was unveiled Wednesday evening in Walker Memorial.

Marc Abrahams, the master of ceremonies of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, is hit with paper airplanes as he announces the next Ig Nobel winner.

Ig Nobel Prize Laureate Dan Meyer swallows a sword for the audience. He won the Medicine Prize last year for investigating the side-effects of swallowing swords.

Team “Just Ducky” members (left to right) Sarah C. Wilder ’10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper ’10, and Elizabeth A. Hass ’10 race against team “Tipsy” members Rahul Kar G and Santolina Savannet G in the Head of the Zesiger c...

MIT running back Robert C. Utz ’09 rushes out of the defensive line in the football game against Western New England College.