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The MIT iGEM team opens the floor for questions after their presentation on Sunday.iGEM, or the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, is a five-month-long research challenge, which culminated with ...

The new David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research is seen on Thursday. Construction on the building is nearly finished, and labs will begin moving in soon.

Douglas Witte shows some children the art of playing the organ at the MIT Chapel after the organ recital on Veteran’s Day. Helen Ward Mannix and Witte both performed, playing pieces such as “Four Versets and a Canzona...

Senior co-captain Michael G. Zomnir ’11 retrieves a ball from the corner during Saturday’s squash match. The Engineers defeated Boston College 7-2.

An apple octopus lounges on a table before the start of judging at Apple Bake, held on Sunday in the Burton-Conner Porter Room. The annual competition attracted nearly 200 entries in categories ranging from apple art ...

Voters leave Kresge Auditorium on Tuesday evening after casting their votes in the midterm elections. Kresge was a Cambridge polling place for Precincts 2 and 3 in Ward 2.

Hackers invaded the Hyatt hotel on west campus this week for part of the Linux Plumbers Conference, an annual gathering of Linux kernel and infrastructure developers. Linus Torvalds, the creator of the open-source Lin...

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the open source Linux operating system, dives into the shark tank at the New England Aquarium on Wednesday night. Torvalds was given a choice between giving a keynote presentation at the...

At the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear”, many people dressed in costumes and held satirical signs. Over 200,000 people attended the event hosted by Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert.

Nightmarket visitors gather to watch Chinese Yo-yo performances on Saturday night in Lobdell. Nightmarket is an annual festival held by Asian culture clubs on campus.

SaveTFP’s annual Spooky Skate is all about dressing up and having fun on ice. The event took place on Saturday night at Johnson Ice Rink.

HallowMIT, the annual Halloween festival for MIT’s families, took place on Saturday, October 30 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Stata Center. Activities included pumpkin carving, face painting, balloon twisting, caricatures,...

Adam Boyles conducts the opening concert of this year’s season of the MIT Symphony Orchestra in Kresge on Friday. The concert featured pieces by Chadwick, Haydn and Kalinnikov and a dedication to Tyler Clementi, a Rut...

Dr. John Holdren ’65, adviser to President Barack Obama for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, delivers the 2010 David J. Rose Lecture in Nuclear Technology...

Cordelia (Allison M. Schneider ’13) attempts to convince her father, King Lear, that she really does love him, all the while refusing to flatter him. The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble is currently performing King Lear, wit...