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A construction crew demolishes the building at 219 Vassar St. on Monday morning. The TCC Vassar childcare facility will be constructed in its place.

Sam Heilbroner performs with the Festival Jazz Ensemble in the Annual Family Concert, a joint concert held with the MIT Wind Ensemble in celebration of Family Weekend, last Friday.

Posters of missing Boston Architectural College graduate student Jonathan Dailey were put up in the Infinite Corridor. Dailey was found dead in the Charles River on Tuesday.

Students in 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) launched “snowballs” at polar bears and target flags last Friday in Killian Court as part of the class’s engineering process challenge. A variety of launching devices,...

MIT Professor Emeritus Walter Lewin, famous for his astrophysics research as well as for his undergraduate physics lectures, retuned to the lecture hall on Thursday to deliver a public talk on the history of X-ray ast...

Students in 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) launched “snowballs” at polar bears and target flags last Friday in Killian Court as part of the class’s engineering process challenge. A variety of launching devices,...

Students in 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) launched “snowballs” at polar bears and target flags last Friday in Killian Court as part of the class’s engineering process challenge. A variety of launching devices,...

Students in 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) launched “snowballs” at polar bears and target flags last Friday in Killian Court as part of the class’s engineering process challenge. A variety of launching devices,...

Students in 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) launched “snowballs” at polar bears and target flags last Friday in Killian Court as part of the class’s engineering process challenge. A variety of launching devices,...

Students in 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) launched “snowballs” at polar bears and target flags last Friday in Killian Court as part of the class’s engineering process challenge. A variety of launching devices,...

A large portion of the Kendall Square rooftop garden was fenced off as of Thursday. Part of the garden will be replaced by a two-story connector building occupied by Google. The approval process for the connector has ...

A duck seeks a willow shaded shore in the setting autumn sun at Spy Pond in Somerville.

The MIT Lecture Series Committee presented Pitch Perfect, with performances by The Chorallaries (pictured here), The Muses, and Syncopasian in Room 26-100 on Wednesday, Sept. 26.

Four-tenths of a second after launch, this two-liter bottle rocket ascends above Briggs Field during a Gordon Engineering Leadership Program activity.

President L. Rafael Reif talked with students during dinner at Simmons Hall last Thursday evening. The visit coincided with Simmons’ 10th anniversary, celebrated over the weekend and with the unveiling of a 144”, twel...

MIT hosted the Midweek Tech Invitational last Wednesday, the first midweek regatta of the sailing season. The sailors raced on Rondar Fireflies, the sailing boats used in the 1948 Olympics. MIT placed 9th, 11th, 13th,...