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Large classes will have to find other venues next semester, as 10-250 will be undergoing renovations beginning during the Independent Activities Period and extending into the spring semester.

The Hotel@MIT (pictured), located on Sidney St. in Cambridge, is being sold by MIT and real estate company Forest City. The sale is expected to close in early December.

New England College’s junior forward Emily Tanguay tries to put the puck in the back of the net while MIT’s forward Lauren A. Kazmierski ’11 (right) and goalie Rachel A. Bowens-Rubin ’11 (left) defend. The women’s ice...

Christina M. Ottomeyer ’08 cross-checks senior Jenna Stanley of the University of Southern Maine in Saturday’s women’s ice hockey match. The Engineers were shut out in a 9-0 loss.

Tish Scolnik ’10 takes her work outside at Mobility Care in Arusha, Tanzania to catch some rays with her local co-workers.

Mario A. Bollini ’09 takes a break to sit and chat with some of the community members that are testing his new module for a hand-powered tricycle in Nairobi, Kenya.

Building W1 will undergo a complete renovation before it reopens as an undergraduate dormitory in the fall of 2010.

Robert M. Randolph, formerly senior associate dean for students, is now MIT’s first Institute Chaplain.

In the Musical Theatre Guild’s production of “Pippin,” Mia A. Shandell ’10 watches over Pippin (Benjamin Moncivaiz ’11) as he is crowned king after he killed his father for being an unjust ruler.

Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, will be the 2008 Commencement speaker.

Chapati, a type of Indian bread enjoyed in South Asia and East Africa, is served with a hardboiled egg — Kenyan style.

Tea time at the hand-powered tricycle workshop at the main Nairobi branch of the Association for the Physically Disabled of Kenya is always full of laughter and delicious milk tea.

A cook chops goat meat with a machete in an outdoor booth in Nairobi, Kenya.

A limb from the Class of 1950 Willow Tree in front of Baker House injured Wei-Hsuan “Jessie” Ho ’08 on Saturday. Since then, the tree has been removed.

The majority of locals in Nairobi, Kenya use a clay pot for cooking instead of a stove. The bottom part of the pot is for firewood and the upper part is for coal where a grail or pot can be placed for cooking.

Outside Nairobi, a local worker makes the body of a hand-powered tricycle at the workshop of the Association for the Physically Disabled of Kenya.