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MIT students swarm an “entire room giveaway” in E60, posted to the reuse mailing list. Steven G. Banzaert emailed the list giving away the contents of a room that housed several robotics teams, between the hours of 3–...

Kayakers paddle through the Charles River against the smoke-obscured Boston skyline on May 31. Smoke from forest fires in Quebec drifted through Boston, making breathing uncomfortable outdoors.

Nathan M. Robert ’13 stabs Eric A. Del Castillo ’13 in the chest with their toy set, the Legend of the Sword, during the Toy Playsentations in 10-250 on May 11. The Legend of the Sword contains two Nerf swords and two...

The sixth annual MIT Toy Product Design Playsentation was held in 10-250 on May 11. Instructor Barry M. Kudrowitz, a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering, taught 2.00b for the sixth and final time this past seme...

Peter L. Cooper, Manager of Sustainability Engineering and Utility Planning at MIT Facilities, speaks at the MIT Efficiency Forward event in Building 14 on May 26. The Efficiency Forward program will aim to cut electr...

MIT President Emeritus Paul E. Gray ’54 speaks Friday at the inauguration of the Lobby 7 Design Contest. The competition, jointly organized by the MIT Class of ’54 and the School of Architecture and Planning, asks MI...

Phyo Nyi Nyi Kyaw ’10 (left) directs Leadership Training Institute co-founder Semmie Kim ’10 through a maze of balloons and cups at the Stata Center on Sunday during a game organized by high school participants in the...

Princess Len Carlos ’13 flies a kite during the Bangladeshi Students Association’s annual kite-flying festival to celebrate the coming of spring at the Kresge barbecue pits on Sunday. Sunday afternoon was windy with s...

A visitor at the “Through the Lens: Time” exhibition inspects “Organic” by Biyeun Buczyk ’10 at the Media Lab on Wednesday. The show, an initiative of instructor Andrea Frank of the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Te...

Shigehisa Kuriyama, professor of cultural history at the Harvard Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, speaks on the “Divergence of Greek Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine through the lens of m...

Junior Randall M. Briggs’s robot keels over in a fierce game of tug-of-war to win yesterday’s 2.007 competition in Johnson Athletic Center. The design and manufacturing class culminated in the annual two-day robotics ...

(left to right) Reid C. Van Lehn G, Mason Tang ’10, and Armand E. Mignot ’10 show off their moves in the show’s opening hip-hop dance.

Dance Troupe freezes at the end of a house-style number choreographed by Kristopher B. Dos Santos ’10.

WeiYang Sun ’11, Adrianna L. Tam ’11, and Jia X. Wu ’10 peform a mashup of 2PM songs “Tic Toc” and “Heartbeat” at the Syncopasian spring concert on Sunday in 6-120.

The southwestern window of 54-100 blew out on Thursday around 8:30 p.m. because of high winds. The Cecil and Ida Green Building was designed in 1962 by architect I. M. Pei ’40, the same architect who designed the John...

New solar-powered, compacting single stream recycle bins were placed outside of the Student Center this week. The new bins aim to reduce the amount of waste going to a landfill, and they do not have to be emptied as o...