Ethan A. Solomon

Boylston St. remained blocked off two days after the Marathon bombings. Blue and yellow flowers, representing the colors of the Boston Marathon, were tucked into the barricade near a makeshift memorial.

Boylston St. remained blocked off Wednesday evening after Monday’s bombings. Blue and yellow flowers, representing the colors of the Boston Marathon, were tucked into the barricade near a makeshift memorial.

Four protesters gathered by the MIT General Counsel’s office in Building 7 on Sunday and shared their views on the Aaron Swartz case with reporters. MIT, they said, should publicly stand up for its institutional princ...

A hazardous materials decontamination tent was set up in the Westgate parking lot on June 7 in response to a New House bomb scare. Cambridge and MIT police eventually determined that there was never any threat to camp...

Pi Beta Phi will be moving in to the MIT-owned property at 405 Memorial Dr. next year. The house was formerly occupied by the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, and has since undergone big renovations.

Kevin L. Brown ’88 (left) sits in MIT’s Forbes Family Café in Building 32, and demonstrates the new wormhole by talking to Neal Soderquist (right), who is sitting in Stanford University’s Forbes Family Café.

Speakers placed in a plastic dome above the table of the wormhole direct audio to students at MIT from those at Stanford.

Incoming freshmen take advantage of fun opportunities to use high tech, expensive equipment such as laser printers in the Discover Materials Science and Engineering Pre-Orientation program.

A hazardous materials decontamination tent was set up in the Westgate parking lot early Tuesday morning in response to a New House bomb scare. Cambridge and MIT police eventually determined that there was never any th...

MIT and Cambridge police and firefighters coordinated the response to potential pipe bombs in New House early Tuesday morning. There was never any threat to campus safety, but the Cambridge bomb squad carried out a se...

A decrepit upright piano sails off the roof of Baker House during the traditional Spring drop date celebration on Memorial Drive. The drop was held over a week after the April 21 drop date to coincide with MIT’s Under...

Nearly 1,200 prefrosh descended upon MIT last weekend for Campus Preview Weekend. The weekend was packed with events like the Academic Expo, Activities Midway, sumo-wrestling, and liquid nitrogen ice cream.

The MIT Golf team makes use of the Paul Rudovsky Indoor Training Room for practice.

The MIT Men’s Hockey team prepares for a game against Merrimack on Tuesday evening.