Nicholas Chornay

Cathy J. Cao ’13 dances in Dancetroupe’s spring show, DTMF.

Kere U. Eke ’15 and Aaron M. Okello ’16 dance in Dancetroupe’s spring show, DTMF.

Denise N. Neibloom ’15 dances in Dancetroupe’s spring show, DTMF.

Nina Yang ’15 dances in Dancetroupe’s spring show, DTMF.

Mariana Duran ’13 dances in Dancetroupe’s spring show, DTMF.

Radames, captain of the Egyptian army (played by Zachary J. Casas ’13) mourns his fate during a dress rehearsal of Next Act’s production of the musical Aida. The annual show runs Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening...

MIT plans to construct commercial, academic, and residential buildings on what are currently parking lots. In this model from MITIMCo, the three near white buildings are possibilities for commercial buildings on the s...

Nate Silver signed copies of his New York Times bestselling book The Signal and the Noise for audience members following his talk. Many audience members brought their own copies, but the book was also offered for sale...

Much of the talk focused on the development on FiveThirtyEight, its beginnings at the New York Times, and Silver’s thoughts on its future. In 2007, Silver felt that politics was still “stuck in the stone age and not...

Statistician and political blogger Nate Silver appeared last night before a packed auditorium to talk about the role of statistics in elections and politics, as well as his own career. Silver’s fame skyrocketed late l...

Journalist, writer, and MIT CMS associate professor Seth Mnookin moderated the Nate Silver talk, hosted by the MIT Communications Forum. Mnookin spent the first half of the two hour talk interviewing Silver and the re...

The event was held in the Bartos Theater in the basement of E15 (the Weisner Building/old Media Lab). The auditorium’s near-200 person capacity was exceeded before the event began; some audience members were left stan...

Audience members had a chance to ask Silver questions during the second half of the event. Question topics ranged from digital journalism to the future of Silver’s career. When asked about would happen when other medi...

Institute Professor Robert Langer in his office, where The Tech spoke to him last week. The walls of Langer’s office are covered from floor to ceiling in awards given to him for his pioneering work in biological engin...

A fully-rigged Firefly sailboat is on display in Lobby 10 this week. The sailboat advertised the opening of the MIT Sailing Pavilion on Monday. The Sailing Pavilion offers classes and open sailing to the MIT community.

Kaba Modern, a hip-hop dance crew from Irvine, Calif., performs at the 13th Annual Grains of Rice, a celebration of Asian culture hosted by the MIT Asian American Association on Apr. 16 in Walker. The group placed thi...

Zuckerberg, a Harvard dropout, graciously accepts an MIT hoodie from Chancellor Grimson at the end of the discussion.

Zuckerberg (and occasionally Schroepfer) answered a variety of questions covering topics ranging from online privacy to Facebook’s addictiveness — the latter of which Zuckerberg attributed to a combination of human so...

Chandrakasan began his term as the department head of EECS on July 1. Along with continuing his research and being an undergraduate advisor, he is now also overseeing undergraduate and graduate education, supporting f...

Zachary A. Weiner, creator of the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, takes questions and signs books in a packed 6-120 on Monday.

Visitors explore the Unflat Pavilion/Feather-Weight House, a freestanding pavilion constructed from laminated plywood that appeared on campus in early May. The structure was created by Nick Gelpi, a lecturer in the De...

Visitors explore the Unflat Pavilion/Feather-Weight House, a freestanding pavilion constructed from laminated plywood. The inside of the structure is illuminated with flexible LED strips. It was created by Nick Gelpi,...

Visitors mingle around Light Drift by Professor of Architecture J. Meejin Yoon. The color-changing orbs encouraged people to interact with each other and with the river, as touching the orbs on land affected the color...

Shireen S. Rudina ’13 of the MIT Parliamentary Debate Team debates the ethics of eating meat with PETA Vice President of Policy Bruce Friedrich. The two presented their opposing arguments Monday night to a packed 10-2...

PETA Vice President of Policy Bruce Friedrich presents his view on the ethics of eating meat during a debate on Monday, April 25, in 10-250.

(left) Kaba Modern, a hip-hop dance crew from Irvine, Calif., performs at the 13th Annual Grains of Rice, a celebration of Asian culture hosted by the MIT Asian American Association last Saturday evening in Walker. Th...

(above) “BU’s Got Talent” winner Brian Shih (BU ’12) demonstrates mastery of the Chinese Yo-yo at the 13th annual Grains of Rice, a celebration of Asian culture hosted by the MIT Asian American Association last Satur...

Clara S. Bennett ’10 and the band Asymptotic Freedom rock out to Santana at the Physics Rock Concert held last Wednesday in 54-100. Band members included Prof. Martin W. Zwierlein PhD ’07 (piano), Prof. Enectalí Figue...

Railroad crossing on Mass. Ave. near Vassar Street, shot looking directly into the late afternoon sun. The Metropolitan Storage Warehouse is visible on the left; smokestacks from the Francis Bitter Magnet Lab stand on...

Philanthropist, Microsoft co-founder, and Harvard dropout Bill Gates speaks to students in Kresge Auditorium on April 21 about global health, poverty, and education. He encouraged students to apply their talents towar...

Olga B. Botvinnik rehearses Thursday in preparation for the upcoming show, DanceTroupe in 3D.

Stephen T. Goodman ‘12 rehearses Thursday in preparation for the upcoming show, DanceTroupe in 3D.

Jackie Chen ‘14 rehearses Thursday in preparation for the upcoming show, DanceTroupe in 3D.

Mason Tang G and Lauren T. Berry ‘13 rehearse Thursday in preparation for the upcoming show, DanceTroupe in 3D.

Members of the MIT Dance Troupe rehearse Thursday in preparation for the upcoming show, DanceTroupe in 3D.

Sara E. Chen ‘11 rehearses Thursday in preparation for the upcoming show, DanceTroupe in 3D.

Today is the second day of the annual holiday glass sale. Held in Lobby 10, the sale features work by students and instructors from MIT’s Glass Lab, which offers classes in the fall and spring as well as IAP. A portio...

Elizabeth M. Kimball ‘11 rehearses Thursday in preparation for the upcoming show, DanceTroupe in 3D.

An apple octopus lounges on a table before the start of judging at Apple Bake, held on Sunday in the Burton-Conner Porter Room. The annual competition attracted nearly 200 entries in categories ranging from apple art ...

Microsoft Chief Research Officer Craig Mundie visited MIT this Thursday to give a talk on human-computer interaction as part of the Dertouzos lecture series hosted by CSAIL. Mundie talked about the advantages and appl...

Students register for classes in Johnson Ice Rink on Tuesday. Despite movements toward towards digitization, MIT still uses paper registration forms.

Philanthropist, Microsoft co-founder, and Harvard dropout Bill Gates speaks to students in Kresge Auditorium on Wednesday about global health, poverty, and education. He encouraged students to apply their talents towa...

With a variety of props before them, members of the Musical Theatre Guild speak to prefrosh during the CPW Festival.

Prefrosh attempt to rebuild a giant foam Jenga tower, but to no avail.

A new printer was installed in the Student Center over spring break.

MIT Ballroom Dance Team members Ran Yi and Jing Wang ’10 compete in the championship standard at the Harvard Invitational Ballroom Competition this past weekend.

Hana I. Khalil ‘13 talks to a prospective member of the Class of 2014 on the phone during the admitted students telethon held on Thursday in the Bush Room.

MIT may stop running the Northwest Shuttle and ask students to use another free local bus instead.

Cameras were recently installed in Lobby 10 to watch the Martin Luther King, Jr. seminar exhibit, a frequent target of vandalism. It is unclear how long the cameras will remain or how long the recorded footage will be...