Biyeun M. Buczyk

Julia C. Hsu ’14 serves the ball during the final heated sets against the Skidmore Thoroughbreds on Apr. 17. The Engineers earned their eighth consecutive victory, defeating the Thoroughbreds 6-3.

A thick fog engulfs the Harvard Bridge on April 26, obscuring Boston from view.

Koichiro Mizoguchi and Junichi Murakami of Japan demonstrate one application of their research by spraying a plate of sushi with aerosolized wasabi at this year’s Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony in Harvard’s Sanders Theatre l...

Maria Ferrante serenades Nobel Laureate Peter Diamond PhD ’63 (Economics 2010) with the joys of caffeine and its importance in coffee during Chemist in a Coffee Shop, this year’s Ig Nobel mini-opera.

Marc Abrahams, the director and producer of the Ig Nobels, introduces Miss Sweetie Poo Liraz Brand. Miss Sweetie Poo is responsible for keeping the ceremonies running on time. If a guest’s speech goes over time, she w...

Dan Meyer, the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, returns to Thursday’s ceremonies to perform a sword swallowing encore.

Daniel Rosenberg performs a chemistry experiment during an Ig Nobel Moment of Science. The theme for this year’s Ig Nobel Ceremony was chemistry.

Daniel Rosenberg executes an experiment involving oscillating metronomes on top of soda cans during an Ig Nobel Moment of Science.

A human target stands on stage as people throw paper airplanes across Sanders Theatre, a long time tradition of the Ig Nobels.

Maria Ferrante serenades Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach (Chemistry 1986) with the joys of caffeine and its importance in coffee during Chemist in a Coffee Shop, this year’s Ig Nobel mini-opera.

Julia C. Hsu ’14 volleys the ball back to Tufts in the No. 2 doubles on Tuesday. The Engineers lost the match 7-2.

Elizabeth A. Dethy ’15 charges through Endicott College’s offense during the field hockey game on Tuesday. The Engineers won 2-1.

East Campus warriors blare their vuvuzelas during the annual East vs. West Water War on Kresge Oval yesterday evening. The water war is a time-honored Residence Exploration (REX) tradition.

Undergraduate Association President Vrajesh Y. Modi ’11 holds up the iPad used to sign a recommitment to MIT’s charter at the MIT Next Century Convocation on April 10.

Students throw colored powder in celebration of the spring season at MIT’s Holi celebration on Sunday. Holi is celebrated widely in South Asia. For more photos of the event, p. 10.

Julia C. Hsu ’14 serves the ball during the final heated sets against the Skidmore Thoroughbreds on Sunday afternoon. The Engineers earned their eighth consecutive victory, defeating the Thoroughbreds 6-3. MIT will pl...

Kelly Duncan ’11 weaves through Springfield College’s defense during the Women’s Lacrosse game this past Saturday. Springfield defeated MIT 15-9.

Alex W. Andrzejewski ’11 charges Babson College’s offense during the Men’s Lacrosse game this past Saturday. It was a close match, with Babson defeating MIT only by one point at 10-9. The final home game will take pla...

(Right to Left) Lauren H. Stephens ’14 at Bow, Lauren R. McGough ’12 at Two, and Juliann E. Lajoie ’13 at Three power the Susan Hockfield in Sunday morning’s race against Stanford. The Engineers lost to Stanford in bo...

Gareth Jones of the University of Bristol uses hand puppets to explain how bats perform oral sex on each other, before being censored by the “V-chip” at the Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony on Thursday. Jones won the Ig Nobel...

Jean Berko Gleason, who gave the Welcome, Welcome and Goodbye, Goodbye speeches, demonstrates that swearing helps to relieve pain. Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston of Keele University, UK won the Ig ...

William Lipscomb was the prize in the Win-a-Date with a Nobel Laureate contest. Lipscomb won the Nobel Prize in 1976 for “chemical attraction.”

Gareth Jones accepts his Ig Nobel Prize in Biology during the Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony on Thursday. Each of the ten winners received a Petri dish and a stuffed bacteria plushie.

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.

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.

Júlio de Matos discusses his photographic work on the nearly extinct culture of Bejing’s hutongs at the opening of “Fading Hutongs” in the Wolk Gallery. The exhibit opened on Sept. 16 and will be up until Dec. 19.