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A young girl experiments with a new elevation mapping display at the MIT Museum. The museum had a grand re-opening on Saturday and Sunday after an extensive renovation added the Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery on the ...

Jacob M. Muhleman ’08 and Desiree D. Amadeo ’11 (obscured) lead the way in the George Warren Smith Trophy this past weekend on the Charles River. The Engineers finished ahead of 27 other competitors.

Ekavali Mishra ’10 sprints past Gordon College during last Tuesday’s field hockey game. Unfortunately, the Engineers fell to the Fighting Scots 2-1.

One of the factors in engine speed is temperature, and here Michael A. Carvajal '09 holds his hands to keep the heat in close to three running engines — all getting a boost from an extra burner in the center.

After lighting the flames under their engines, the 2.670 class watches as their creations warm up and purr to life.

Daniel E. Klenk '09 (right) examines his heavily modified engine as the engine RPMs are measured by Daniel T. Schultz '07. It clocked in at the fastest speed in the room, 980 RPM.

2.670 professor Douglas P. Hart adjusts Alison S. Greenlee's '09 Stirling engine just before the final spin-off on Friday, Feb. 2.

Fencing Head Coach Jaroslav Koniusz has a spirited talk with foilist Spencer R. Sugimoto '08 during a time out. The MIT men's and women's fencing teams hosted 11 teams this past Sunday, Feb. 4 for the MIT Invitational...

Trevor T. Chang '07 attacks a Yeshiva University opponent during his first bout of the men's épée team's second round of competition. The MIT men's and women's fencing teams hosted 11 teams this past Sunday, Feb. 4 fo...

Nancy Hua '07, a foilist, scores a touch against her first Tufts University opponent. The MIT men's and women's fencing teams hosted 11 teams this past Sunday, Feb. 4 for the MIT Invitational, a fencing tournament hel...

"If it doesn't explode, it'll go really fast." Assistant Matthew "Smalltime" S. Humbert '08 adjusts the quad-cylinder franken-Stirling engine with double-speed flywheel. It was not working by the time of the spin-off.

Rodney A. Brooks gets dessert at an ice cream social held in his honor on Friday, June 29. Brooks stepped down as the director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, after serving as director for CSA...

Final touch-ups are made to the new MIT Federal Credit Union branch on the first floor of the Student Center. For more information, see the news brief on page 8.

An explosion in a Building 18 chemistry lab on the evening of July 23 drew a large response from the Cambridge Fire Department. According to bystanders, the explosion was caused by acids improperly stored behind a fum...

Gerald J. Sussman ’68, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, gives the closing keynote presentation on July 11 for the first Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems conference...

MIT hackers placed a model of the Sputnik satellite in Lobby 10 on Thursday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the satellite’s launch. The model emitted a beeping sound all day, similar to the signal transmitted b...