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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.

This engraving, a Chinese idiom, is located on the side of the Leshan Giant Buddha — the tallest stone Buddha statue in the world.

MIT’s newest building, 6C, is integrated with the rest of the Main Group buildings through an atrium full of footbridges.

Benjamin M. Judge ’11 listens to a 3.091 lecture in 26-100 via live video from 10-250. The 570 students in Professor Donald R. Sadoway’s popular introductory solid state chemistry class exceed 10-250’s 450-person capa...

Grant D. Tomassi ’11 scores a goal late in the fourth period as the Engineers beat the University of California Santa Cruz, the defending NCAA Division III national champions, 13-9 Friday evening at the Zesiger Center...

David M. Nole ’09 fights for control of the ball with Rhode Island College’s Kyle Genereux during the MIT men’s soccer match on Saturday.

MIT Police Chief John DiFava spoke with The Tech about how he became part of the MIT community and his plans for the future.

The Tech spoke with Susanna “Zan” Barry, a health educator for MIT Medical, about her role at MIT and how students can stay healthy.

Donald R. Sadoway, popular professor of Introduction to Solid State Chemistry (3.091), talked with The Tech about his background and how MIT has changed since he has arrived.

Jeffrey I. Schiller ’79, network manager for Information Services & Technology, is responsible for helping create and maintain MIT’s computing network.

Hundreds of people crowd "What Stage" at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. The festival is held every June in Manchester, Tenn.

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Steven R. Lerman was appointed as Dean of Graduate Students this past Monday, June 11. His appointment takes effect July 1.

Andrew G. “Zoz” Brooks ’07 wears a robot on his mortarboard as a reflection of his doctoral thesis on human-robot communication.

Graduates turn to give thanks to family and friends.