photos

Most common student concerns for the UA. Square area corresponds to student interest. Numbers refer to quantity of student references to the issue in the survey results

Silhouettes take the spotlight during the Ratatat concert at the House of Blues on October 5, 2010.

Walker Memorial, where many exams are held, could be the new home of the Music and Theater Arts department. According to Associate Provost Martin A. Schmidt, “the Music and Theater program has had a need for new space...

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...

Gavin Darcey ’11 takes a shot past a Brown defender during Friday’s water polo game. MIT went on to lose 5-4 in a close game.

Sharon S. Hao ’14 sets the ball as Emma S. Gargus ’14 prepares to spike in the game against Springfield College on Tuesday. Despite winning the first set, the Engineers lost the game.

A splash of color in an otherwise muted palette.

Princess x comfort in this ruffled hoodie.

“Sustainable Style,” a fashion show that took place at the Charlesmark Hotel on Wednesday, provokes contemplation on the role of social consciousness in fashion and how plausible it is to integrate into the everyday g...

Jean Berko Gleason, who gave the Welcome, Welcome and Goodbye, Goodbye speeches, demonstrates that swearing helps to relieve pain. Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston of Keele University, UK won the Ig ...

Gareth Jones accepts his Ig Nobel Prize in Biology during the Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony on Thursday. Each of the ten winners received a Petri dish and a stuffed bacteria plushie.

William Lipscomb was the prize in the Win-a-Date with a Nobel Laureate contest. Lipscomb won the Nobel Prize in 1976 for “chemical attraction.”

Gareth Jones of the University of Bristol uses hand puppets to explain how bats perform oral sex on each other, before being censored by the “V-chip” at the Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony on Thursday. Jones won the Ig Nobel...

Cynthia Barnhart PhD ’88 is acting as the dean of the School of Engineering while the United States Senate decides whether to confirm Subra Suresh ScD ’81, the current dean, as the next director of the National Scienc...

Students learn about companies at Career Fair 2010, sponsored by the MIT Class of 2011, the Graduate Student Council, and the Society of Women Engineers, on Thursday. Over 330 companies attended.

Students have been receiving many more packages this year, clogging mail rooms at dorms. Some blame Amazon Student, a new program that gives free two-day shipping for students with .edu mail accounts.