Manohar Srikanth

On Monday 2.12 (Introduction to Robotics) held a gymnastic robot competition. This is one of the robots that made up the competition: a high-bar robot.

The MIT Logarhythms perform at the 7th annual Katwalk last Friday. Katwalk, put on by Kappa Alpha Theta, is a philanthropy fashion show whose profits go to the Boston chapter of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA...

Workers take down portions of the covering over the scaffolding on the Great Dome Monday morning in preparation for Hurricane Sandy’s high winds.

Brad A. Golden runs in a patriotic suit. Other runners also had humorous outfits, such as tutu dresses.

David M. Rosen G participates in the marathon.

Sharon Cherop (right) won the women’s race with a time of 2:31:50 while Jemima Jelagat Sumgong (left) came in second with a time of 2:31:52.

Mayumi Fujita finished seventh in the women’s race with a time of 2:39:11.

In addition to runners, there were 39 wheelchair racers and 21 handcycle racers who entered the marathon.

In addition to the electrical fire on Tuesday, an unrelated brush fire also erupted on Sunday afternoon. This fire was along the sides of the Muddy River near Fenway and was promptly put out by firefighters. Smoke cov...

Children learn the inner workings of a joystick-controlled robotic manipulator at a technology demonstration in the Stata Center during MIT’s Under The Dome Open House celebration. Approximately 20,000 attendees visit...

Liquid Archive by Head of the Department of Architecture Nader Tehrani and Professor of Visual Arts Gediminas Urbonas extends Killian Court into the Charles River. During FAST Light last weekend, an hour-long program ...

Justin C. Helbert ’14 runs to the base during a baseball game against Easter Nazarene College on Mar. 15. The Engineers won 9-0 against the Easter Nazarene Lions to improve their record to 2-1.

The sun rises between the Hancock Tower and the Prudential Center.

A miniature version of Simmons made to resemble Lego blocks was taken using a tilt-shift lens.

Former Chancellor Phillip L. Clay PhD ’75 speaks at the MIT Next Century Convocation.

At noon on April 30, an organized “flash mob” convened in Lobby 7, singing and dancing to a selection of pop and dance music. The flash mob required advance sign-up and rehearsal attendance.

MIT seen from Boston (left to right): LightBridge, SKY Event, Liquid Archive, and Light Drift were installed along the Charles River for the MIT150 FAST Light festival last spring.

MIT President Susan J. Hockfield uses a sword to cut the MIT-shaped cake at the Toast to Tech event in June.

FAST LIGHT lit up the Charles River last May in the culmination of a semester of art installations around campus, as seen in this file photo. Idea Bank commenters have asked for the spirit of FAST installations to con...

MacGregor residents were evacuated yesterday for an hour and a half after a steam pipe exploded nearby on Amherst Alley.

MIT150 Idea Bank posters have suggested that MIT should hold open houses more often. In this April file photo, a team from the Research Laboratory of Electronics help open houses guests build a simple DC motor in the ...

A bird takes refuge on the dock of Pierce Boat House during Tropical Storm Irene this Sunday.

Many branches in Killian Court were downed after Tropical Storm Irene tore through Boston and Cambridge late Saturday night and Sunday morning. Five basements on campus were flooded, but MIT made it through mostly uns...

On Sunday, Tropical Storm Irene’s high winds tore a tree branch on the median of Memorial Drive outside of McCormick Hall. Boston recorded gusts as high as 63 mph as Irene made her way across New England.

Thousands lined the Charles River to watch the fireworks display.

MIT President Susan J. Hockfield uses a sword to cut the MIT-shaped cake.

Tim the Beaver made an appearance to admire the cake.

Ice sculptures of objects with significance to MIT’s history and the Toast to Tech event adorned tables around Killian.

Balloons representing the class years of alumni present for their class reunions were scattered throughout Killian.

Seven thousand people arrived at Killian Court to celebrate MIT’s 150th birthday.

Liquid Archive by Head of the Department of Architecture Nader Tehrani and Professor of Visual Arts Gediminas Urbonas was installed for the FAST Arts Festival. During FAST Light in early May, an hour-long program of e...

Inflatable stars soared above Killian Court during FAST Light on May 7. The sculptures were designed by Otto Piene, director emeritus of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies.

Lewin emotionally announces that this lecture is his last.

The 75-year-old Professor Lewin takes 10 full swings on a pendulum to demonstrate that adding mass will not change its frequency.

Lewin demonstrates Rayleigh scattering by showing that cigarette smoke scatters blue light.

Lewin lights the third of four cigarettes he needs to generate enough small particles to demonstrate Rayleigh scattering.

Night of Numbers, a set of lighted numbers with special significance to MIT, was installed on buildings across campus by Praveen Subramani G and Anna A. Kotova ’10 for the MIT150 FAST Arts Festival. It used LCD projec...

Children learn the inner workings of a joystick-controlled robotic manipulator at a technology demonstration in the Stata Center during MIT’s Under The Dome Open House celebration. Approximately 20,000 attendees visit...

At noon on April 30 an organized “flash mob” convened in Lobby 7, singing and dancing to a selection of pop and dance music. The flash mob required advance sign-up and rehearsal attendance.

An Army UH 60 Black Hawk helicopter visited Briggs Field for an inspection by MIT’s Army ROTC.

Wind Screen, installed by Associate Professor of Architecture J. Meejin Yoon in April for the MIT150 FAST Arts Festival, is on display in the archway below the Green Building. Each subunit is a wind turbine that gener...

Liquid Archive by Head of the Department of Architecture Nader Tehrani and Professor of Visual Arts Gediminas Urbonas extends Killian Court into the Charles River. During FAST Light last weekend, an hour-long program ...

MIT seen from Boston (left to right): LightBridge, SKY Event, Liquid Archive, and Light Drift were installed along the Charles River for the MIT150 FAST Light festival last weekend. For more photos, see p. 12.

Kaustuv K. De Biswas G and Daniel Rosenberg G, the developers of Maxwell’s Dream: Painting with Light, stand in front of their creation. Over 600 exhibit visitors played with a magnetic field to create light on May 8.

Wind Screen, installed by Professor of Architecture J. Meejin Yoon for the MIT150 FAST Arts Festival, is on display in the archway below the Green Building. Each subunit is a wind turbine and generates all the energy ...

String Tunnel, located next to the Building 18 bridge, was installed by Yuna Kim G, Kelly E. Shaw G, and Travis A. Williams G for the MIT150 FAST Arts Festival. String Tunnel directs visitors to the Infinite Corridor.

Inflatable stars soar above Killian Court during FAST Light on May 7. The sculptures were designed by Otto Piene, Director Emeritus of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies.

An artist directed the painting of a mural on the sidewalk near the corner of Ames Street and Main Street outside the newly-opened Koch Institute on Friday afternoon.

A team from the Research Laboratory of Electronics helped open house guests build a simple DC motor using insulated copper wire and ferromagnets in the Stata Center Saturday afternoon.

At noon on Saturday, an organized “flash mob” convened in Lobby 7, singing and dancing to a selection of pop and dance music. The flash mob required advance sign-up and rehearsal attendance.

Children curiously watch a soccer-playing robot demonstration at the Stata Center on Saturday afternoon.

An Army UH 60 Black Hawk helicopter visited Briggs Field Saturday afternoon for an inspection by MIT’s Army ROTC.

Children learn the inner workings of a joystick-controlled robotic manipulator during a technology demonstration at the Stata Center during MIT’s Under The Dome open house celebration on Saturday afternoon. Approximat...

Wind Screen, installed by Associate Professor of Architecture J. Meejin Yoon for the MIT150 FAST Arts Festival, is on display in the archway below the Green Building. Each subunit is a wind turbine and generates all t...

Night of Numbers, a set of lighted numbers with special significance to MIT, was installed on buildings across campus by Praveen Subramani G and Anna A. Kotova ’10 for the MIT150 FAST Arts Festival. It uses LCD projec...

String Tunnel, located next to the Building 18 bridge, was installed by Yuna Kim G, Kelly E. Shaw G, and Travis A. Williams G for the MIT150 FAST Arts Festival. String Tunnel directs visitors to the Infinite Corridor.

A plate of lentil köfte, a traditional Turkish dish, was served during iFair on Friday, April 22. MIT’s international student groups shared their culinary uniqueness at this annual cultural showcase, held on Kresge Oval.

The MIT Women’s Sailing team competed at the Reed Trophy on Saturday, April 23. The team finished 12th out of 14, missing out on nationals.

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lisa P. Jackson delivered the 11th annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture. The Kendall Memorial Lecture Series aims to expose the MIT community to issues in globa...

Mood Meter, a creation of MIT Media Lab, measures facial expressions from a public video feed. The developers of Mood Meter (from left: M. Ehsan Hoque G, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Rosalind W. Picard ScD ’91...

President Susan J. Hockfield holds an Apple iPad, used for its touch interface to sign a renewal of MIT’s charter, flanked (from left) by Chairman of the MIT Corporation John S. Reed ’61 and former Presidents Paul E. ...

Former Chancellor Phillip L. Clay PhD ’75 speaks at the MIT Next Century Convocation.

Physics Professor Nergis Mavalvala PhD ’97, speaks about “Exploring the Warped Side of the Universe” at the MIT150 Symposium “Leaders in Science and Engineering: The Women of MIT” in Kresge on Tuesday. A series of sym...

Bryna Oi — sister of Curran Y. Oi ’13— performs at the MIT Figure Skating Exhibition on Saturday. The event drew skaters and spectators from the MIT community and the Boston area.

Hackers illuminated both domes with purple lights and placed a purple ribbon above the entrance to 77 Mass. Ave on Wednesday. The lights honor Paint the Campus Purple week and the Relay for Life to fight cancer. Relay...

The Koch Institute as viewed from Main Street. The MIT community and prominent figures including Cambridge Mayor David P. Maher, Senator Scott P. Brown, and David H. Koch ’62 celebrated the dedication of the David H. ...