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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.

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...

A crowd mostly composed of college students gathered at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common late Sunday evening to celebrate the death of terrorist Osama bin Laden. Two days ago, President Barack Obama announced th...

A convention attendee dressed as Toph Bei Fong from Avatar: The Last Airbender poses at the Hynes Convention Center.

Paula O. Jacobs ’13, dressed as Umbreon.

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.

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...

Team Maa-Bara members Ogheneruno E. Okiomah G (right) and Elisha R. Goodman G (left) explain their project to the IDEAS Competition judges during the IDEAS poster section on Monday, April 25. Okiomah and Goodman’s pro...

mitBEEF consumes every part of the cow. Counterclockwise from front center: fried penis, book tripe, beef tendon, beef feet, liver pate, beef marrow on bread, scrambled eggs and brains, sweet breads, heart, testicles,...

An mitBEEF member tries kidney. It was kind of not-tasty.

Cow tongue, cooked with garlic. The original tongue was very large — almost the length of a forearm.

Professor Steven B. Leeb ’87 holds up the three-foot screw awarded to him for winning this year’s Big Screw contest, an annual fundraiser sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega. Leeb is a professor in the Department of Electric...