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On Thursday, the FBI released images of two suspects involved in the Boston Marathon bombings that occurred on Monday. Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring ...

Four athletes from the MIT triathlon team competed last weekend at the Collegiate National Championship in Tempe, Arizona. From left to right, the teammates are Mitchell David Hsing G, Sarah A. Weir ‘14 (a Tech sports...

The sculpture rested in the second floor lobby of the Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Department.

Matthew S. Humbert G (left) and Michael J. Tarkanian (right) stand by the sculpture in a material science lab.

In the Hayden Library.

History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture students pose with the sculpture in their department offices.

List Visual Arts Center preparatory John Buck installs the sculpture looking over the Media Lab atrium.

Attendees of the 2013 American Nuclear Society Student Conference.

Jack (Tom Cruise) cautiously approaches a drone in Oblivion.

Students tied well-wished messages to flowers set up by the organizers of the commemoration event held on Kresge lawn Wednesday afternoon.

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.

The Green Building at MIT was lit with the pattern of the American Flag on the night of April 15, 2013.

Ryan J. Madson ’13 tries to lock up a cradle and score a takedown. Madson won this match with a score of 14-1.

“Playing the bagpipes helps me get over bad times,” John Graham ‘16 said after he played “Amazing Grace” on the banks of the Charles River, in tribute to the victims of the Boston Marathon attacks earlier that same da...

Vice President-elect Alex Guo is a third-year PhD student in EECS, and received her B.S. from UC Berkeley. “I think it’s a responsibility for us to have built a brand and engage more students so they know what we do a...

Ryan J. Madson ‘13 finished fourth in his final national competition.

Treasurer-elect Parth Trivedi is a first-year S.M. candidate in Aero/Astro and received a B.S. from Purdue. “I think serving the community is a fundamental responsibility and I have always tried to maintain that where...

Photo taken at the scene of the fatal shooting of the MIT police officer late yesterday night near 32 Vassar Street.

A steady stream of visitors paid tribute to MIT police officer Sean A. Collier in front of Building 32 on Friday, Apr. 19. Collier was slain near this location on Apr. 18 in his police cruiser.

MIT police officer Kevin O’Connor paid tribute to fellow officer Sean A. Collier in front of Building 32 on Friday, Apr. 19. Collier was slain near this location the prior evening.

Police officers return to the Cambridge Police Headquarters in East Cambridge after the manhunt on Friday, Apr. 19.

A steady stream of visitors paid tribute to MIT police officer Sean A. Collier in front of Building 32 on Friday, Apr. 19. Collier was slain near this location on Apr. 18.

A steady stream of visitors paid tribute to MIT police officer Sean A. Collier in front of Building 32 on Friday, Apr. 19. Collier was slain near this location on Apr. 18.

A makeshift memorial to MIT police officer Sean A. Collier was erected by a steady stream of visitors in front of Building 32 on Friday, Apr. 19.

The Green Building at MIT was lit in tribute to slain MIT police officer Sean A. Collier on the night of Apr. 19.

Messages and gifts of thanks and in remembrance of slain MIT police officer Sean A. Collier were displayed at the lobby of MIT Police headquarters.

Messages and gifts of thanks and in remembrance of slain MIT police officer Sean A. Collier were displayed at the lobby of MIT Police headquarters.

Messages and gifts of thanks and in remembrance of slain MIT police officer Sean A. Collier were displayed at the lobby of MIT Police headquarters.

The Green Building was lit up in purple on Friday, Apr. 19.

MIT Police Officer Sean A. Collier was fatally shot and killed Thursday night. Collier was shot on Vassar St. in his vehicle near the Stata Center (Bldg. 32) and Koch Institute for Cancer Research (Bldg. 76). He was 2...

Secretary-elect Chris Smith is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and received his SB from MIT. ”What leads me to be involved is just a basic impulse to serve.”

President-elect Caleb Waugh is a fifth-year MsC student in Nuclear Science and Engineering.“The institute is so responsive to our input and needs. The GSC can make enormous impact, and it can be used for a lot of good...

Following a “reflection” held on Kresge Lawn Wednesday afternoon, members of the MIT community sign cards for hospitals and first responders to the Boston Marathon tragedy. The reflection, hosted by Students at MIT Al...