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Captain Jennifer A. Chao ’09 swims the 200-yard butterfly for the Engineers during the meet on Sunday Jan. 18 versus NEWMAC rivals Coast Guard Academy and Springfield College. Chao took first place in both the 100-met...

A spaceship crew chronicles its daring escape from the planet Zyzzlvaria at the opening ceremony of the year’s annual puzzle competition, the MIT Mystery Hunt, on Friday, Jan. 16. During the 2009 Hunt, teams of proble...

Members of the Mystery Hunt team Manic Sages, affiliated with MIT’s Experimental Studies Group and with Mathcamp, concentrate on solving individual puzzles.

Amy J. Marshall ’09 leaps in front of a Babson basketball player on Saturday Jan. 17. The Engineers lost 73-38.

Freshman members of the team Pet Mangoes Marie Hu, Brian D. McCarthy, Brian Carvalho work on puzzles on Saturday Jan. 17 in the team headquarters in Simmons dining hall. Pet Mangoes, a team consisting of residents, al...

Anjali Tripathi ‘09 answers questions about the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team at the Energy, Environment, and Sustainability Student Group and Project Showcase on Thursday night Jan. 15 in Lobby 10. The showcase was...

Senior Amy J. Marshall attempts for a pass in front of two Clark College basketball players on Saturday in Rockwell Cage. The Engineers lost 69-51.

Senior James M. Bartolotta drives the basketball under pressure from a Coast Guard Academy player on Saturday in Rockwell Cage. The Engineers lost 63-67 in overtime.

Timothy J. Stumbaugh 12 swims the 200 yard backstroke during the MIT Invitational this past Saturday at the Zesiger Center pool. Stumbaugh won the event with a time of 1:56.21 and was also victorious in the 400 indiv...

On Thursday evening, the List Visual Arts Center held an opening reception for its new exhibitions: Melanie Smith’s “Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures” and Taylor Davis and Nicole Cherubini’s “In Contention. ” A...

MIT varsity basketball coach Larry Anderson, communicates with players during a timeout in the game against Coast Guard Academy on Saturday in Rockwell Cage. The Engineers lost 63-67 in overtime.

Lincoln-Sudbury High students collaborate on the team question at halftime during the Blue Lobster Bowl, a regional high school competition of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl, in 26-100 on Saturday.

(right to left) Chancellor Phillip L. Clay PhD ‘75 speaks to the Undergraduate Association Senate as UA President Noah S. Jessop ’09 and UA Vice President Michael A. Bennie ’10 look on Monday evening in W20-400.

Actress Renée Zellweger received Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 2009 Woman of the Year Award at Harvard University on Thursday. She was accompanied in the parade by members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals who were dresse...

Jacob T. Shapiro 11 performs on the pommel horse in the men’s gymnastics team’s meet against Vermont University and Springfield College on Saturday in the duPont Athletics Center.

The Senate (from left to right: Travis S. Newsad ’10, Bryan C. Hernandez ’09, Prannay
Budhraja ’10) kneels to Caesar (Steve Barkhimer).