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Gregory E. Chamitoff PhD ’92, who recently returned from a 179-day tour of duty aboard the International Space Station as the Flight Engineer and Science Officer for Expedition 17-18, which began June 2, 2008, stands ...

The Video Game Orchestra plays a Donkey Kong Country medley at The Berklee Performance Center on Thursday, March 5 in Boston. This was the first performance of its kind — an orchestra playing popular video game compos...

Los Angeles artist Eleni Mandell played new material from Artificial Fire at TT the Bear’s Place in Cambridge on Sunday.

The Oxygen Mini Digital Vaporizer from Vapir.

Dean for Undergraduate Education Daniel E. Hastings ’78 and Dean for Curriculum and Faculty Support Diana Henderson take student comments at the UA Senate meeting on Monday, Feb. 23. Topics included changes to the GIR...

Senior James M. Bartolotta celebrates with the crowd after the team’s win against Rhode Island College on Friday, Mar. 6.

MIT students are seen at Rhode Island College on Friday supporting their basketball team.

Senior Bradley H. Gampel carries the basketball down the court under pressure in the game against Rhode Island College on Friday, Mar. 6.

2009 Lemelson-MIT finalist Erez Lieberman G explains his invention, the iShoe, to a local middle school student, Mickaella Casseus. The iShoe can be placed in any shoe and wirelessly connects to a laptop to provide ph...

Literature Professor Diana Henderson was named a MacVicar Fellow this year for excellence in teaching. Henderson’s areas of research include gender studies, Shakespeare, modernism, and world drama.

MacVicar winner Daniel Jackson, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was nominated by students and faculty for his contributions to teaching. Jackson studies software engineering in CSAIL’s Softwa...

Associate Professor in Science, Technology and Society David Jones, shot in high dynamic range, was named MacVicar Faculty Fellow this year for his outstanding teaching. Jones, besides teaching, has led for the past f...

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Professor Vladimir Bulovic stands in his lab next to an integrated materials growth system, used in the development of nanostructure optical and electronic devices...

Tim the Beaver gets the crowd excited before the annual Latke-Hamentashen debate, held this year on Wednesday, March 4 in 26-100. The placard on his chest reads “MIT” in Hebrew.

The “On the Shoulders of Giants” display was vandalized during the week of Feb. 2; a cardboard cutout of President Abraham Lincoln (pictured here) was replaced with a cutout of “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin.

The “On the Shoulders of Giants” display was vandalized during the week of Feb. 2; a cardboard cutout of President Abraham Lincoln was replaced with a cutout of “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin (pictured here).