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Julie Shi ’08 and Sergio Haro ’08 celebrate as they win the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design competition.

Team 31’s Evan D. Gerard ’08 and Dan L. Lopuch ’08 bring the robots to organizer Julia M. Dennett’s ’08 (left) attention.

Gary M. Matthias ’08 inspects his team’s robot before a match. Team Supernova ended up taking second place.

The main doors to Lobby 7 are covered while Facilities installs a new automatic opening mechanism. Once complete, the doors will appear unchanged, but should operate faster.

Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final installment in the epic Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, was finally released to eager fans at 12:01 a.m. on July 21. Deathly Hallows has broken several reco...

Fans dressed as characters from Harry Potter swarm Harvard Square the night of the release of the seventh and final book of the series. The woman on the left is dressed as the Fat Lady, a talking painting that guards ...

Harry and the Potters perform on stage at Harvard University July 20. A crowd estimated between 10,000 and 15,000 people gathered at Tercentenary Theatre just before the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Harry and the Potters perform on stage at Harvard University July 20. A crowd estimated between 10,000 and 15,000 people gathered at Tercentenary Theatre just before the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Hackers installed a broomstick parking spot, complete with brooms, in the Stata Center’s Student Street July 20, the day before the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Hackers put a Dark Mark on top of the Student Center on the morning of the July 21, the release date for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book of the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowl...

Steven D. Eppinger ’83 has been appointed as the interim dean for MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Karen M. Davie ’08 fights for the ball during the Engineer’s game versus Clark University on Tuesday, Oct. 2. MIT won 1-0.

President Susan Hockfield speaks at the State of the Institute forum in Kresge Auditorium on the morning of Oct. 2, 2007.

Ig Nobel and Nobel Prize winners take the stage together at the close of the Seventeenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony in Harvard’s Sanders Theatre on Thursday night.

Tourists visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.

A giraffe grazes at Lake Manyara in Tanzania.