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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel delivered the keynote address for the Center for Advanced Urbanism’s Scaling Infrastructure conference at the Media Lab on Thursday, April 10.

Phunk Phenomenon, a professional dance crew in the Boston area, performed at Footwork, an annual dance showcase held by MIT’s Ridonkulous this past Friday in La Sala of the Student Center.

Dario Garcia-Dominguez ‘15 plays a movement from Beethoven’s Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109 as a part of the Emerson Fellowship Student Recital Series.

The EECS department unveiled its new teaching area, the Cypress Engineering Design Studio (EDS for short) on Tuesday, April 1. Located at 38-501, EDS is dedicated to building hardware and programming systems, and feat...

Dark clouds of smoke billowed from a two-alarm fire atop E90 in Kendall Square last Friday afternoon. Cambridge firefighters quickly extinguished the fire with no injuries reported.

Students came back from spring break to a freshly painted first floor of the Student Center, though there are still some sections that haven’t been treated with a coat of the brighter and more cheerful light-blue paint.

An attendee examines “Untitled Drawings” by Emily W. Tow G at the Graduate Arts Soiree on the evening of Friday, March 14. Guests were greeted on the sixth floor of the Media Lab with over 30 works of art as well as p...

Around 12:30 p.m. on Friday, a problem with the MIT cogeneration plant caused a campus-wide partial power outage. Shortly before the outage, a manhole cover flew out of its housing in front of sorority Kappa Alpha The...

A couple dances to the tunes of the Compaq Big Band, the main musical attraction at Friday’s Beaver Ball in Walker Memorial. The event was a celebration of MIT mascot Tim the Beaver’s 100-year anniversary.

Massport fire trucks spraying a celebratory water-arch welcome as the first Emirates non-stop flight from Dubai arrives to Boston Logan International Airport on March 10. Emirates is the first airline to provide direc...

Will Drevo G delivers comedic one liners over improvised piano at Friday’s Comedy Night, hosted by the students of the Stand-Up Comedy Club.

Participants at Colleges Against Cancer’s all-night Relay for Life event dance in the group Zumba exercise Saturday evening in Johnson Indoor Track. The goal of the fundraising event is to increase cancer awareness an...

Akhilesh Bakshi sings a solo with the MIT Ohms during Jhankaar, the Yale, Harvard and MIT South Asian a cappella showcase on Friday, March 7. Hosted by the Ohms in 32-123, Jhankaar also featured performances from Yale...

Hackers turned The Alchemist and other parts of campus purple, and decorated Lobby 7 with purple ribbons. Like similar displays in previous years, the hack precedes Relay for Life, a major fundraising event for the Am...

Newly-appointed Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart PhD ’88 meets with members of the MIT community at a welcome reception held on March 4th in Lobby 7. Provost Martin Schmidt PhD ’88 also attended the event to celebrate the ...

Riley E. Brandt G attempts to maneuver past an opponent on the Israel National Ice Hockey Team on Saturday, March 1. MIT lost by one goal after trailing 3-7 in the third period.