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MIT freshman Stephen A. McCrory (front left) passes clubs with professional jugglers Peter Panic, Dan Foley, and Joel Harris while all four balance atop 5–7 foot tall unicycles. This performance rounded out a night of...

B-girl Colleen M. Gallagher ’11 holds a freeze at Imobilare practice last Monday night.

Bryna Oi — sister of Curran Y. Oi ’13— performs at the MIT Figure Skating Exhibition on Saturday. The event drew skaters and spectators from the MIT community and the Boston area.

Works of origami art submitted to the 10th Annual OrigaMIT Student Origami Competition are now on display in the Weisner Student Art Gallery in W20. Shown here is Tim the Beaver, designed and folded by Michelle Fung ’...

Course 6 — Stata Center — Guttag Lab. The Guttag lab uses computer science to solve medical problems and design medical technology. Guttag’s work includes the development of both software-based medical instrumentation...

Course 10 — Building 66 — Gleason Lab. The Gleason Lab uses chemical vapor deposition of thin-film polymers to create sensors. The lab has been creating a solar cell from these polymers, which can be deposited on virt...

Course 5 — Building 18 — Lippard Lab. Research at the Lippard lab focuses on bioinorganic chemistry. In particular, Lippard studies platinum anticancer drugs, metalloenzyme models, bacterial multicomponent monooxygena...

Course 8 — Building 4 — Physics Junior Lab. In Junior Lab, students reproduce defining experiments from modern physics. J-Lab students verify the value of the elementary charge, determine the structure of the Milky Wa...

Course 2 ­— Building 3 — Pappalardo Lab. The Pappalardo Lab is the Course 2 undergraduate teaching laboratory and is home to MIT’s primary machine shop. Many mechanical engineering classes, including 2.004 (Dynamics a...

Course 4 — Building 7 — Architecture Studio. Students take classes, work on projects, and sometimes sleep in the architecture studio.

Course 16 — Building 37 — Man Vehicle Lab. The MVL studies the cognitive and physiological limitations imposed by spaceflight. Dava J. Newman’s PhD ’92’s BioSuit spacesuit concept would give astronauts an unprecedente...

Course 3 — Building 8 — Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory. Students use the teaching laboratories to study biomaterials, chemical synthesis, and physical and electronic properties in 3.014 and 3.042.

Course 7 — Whitehead Institute — Weinberg Lab. The Weinberg lab investigates cancer stem cells and mechanisms of metastasis. Ras, the first human oncogene, was discovered by the Weinberg lab in 1979.

Course 20 — Building 16 — Niles Lab. The Niles lab uses biochemical methods to engineer tools for studying infectious diseases and model organisms. Niles’s current work focuses on malaria parasite biology and controll...

Hackers illuminated both domes with purple lights and placed a purple ribbon above the entrance to 77 Mass. Ave on Wednesday. The lights honor Paint the Campus Purple week and the Relay for Life to fight cancer. Relay...

Using props and sketches, the winning team of the FarmHack Event presents design solutions for water usage and associated energy consumption for small-scale farms. Farmhack@MIT, which is part of the MIT Global Challen...