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Fans dressed as characters from Harry Potter swarm Harvard Square the night of the release of the seventh and final book of the series. The woman on the left is dressed as the Fat Lady, a talking painting that guards ...

Harry and the Potters perform on stage at Harvard University July 20. A crowd estimated between 10,000 and 15,000 people gathered at Tercentenary Theatre just before the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Harry and the Potters perform on stage at Harvard University July 20. A crowd estimated between 10,000 and 15,000 people gathered at Tercentenary Theatre just before the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Hackers installed a broomstick parking spot, complete with brooms, in the Stata Center’s Student Street July 20, the day before the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Hackers put a Dark Mark on top of the Student Center on the morning of the July 21, the release date for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book of the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowl...

Steven D. Eppinger ’83 has been appointed as the interim dean for MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Karen M. Davie ’08 fights for the ball during the Engineer’s game versus Clark University on Tuesday, Oct. 2. MIT won 1-0.

President Susan Hockfield speaks at the State of the Institute forum in Kresge Auditorium on the morning of Oct. 2, 2007.

Ig Nobel and Nobel Prize winners take the stage together at the close of the Seventeenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony in Harvard’s Sanders Theatre on Thursday night.

Tourists visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.

A giraffe grazes at Lake Manyara in Tanzania.

This engraving, a Chinese idiom, is located on the side of the Leshan Giant Buddha — the tallest stone Buddha statue in the world.

MIT’s newest building, 6C, is integrated with the rest of the Main Group buildings through an atrium full of footbridges.

Benjamin M. Judge ’11 listens to a 3.091 lecture in 26-100 via live video from 10-250. The 570 students in Professor Donald R. Sadoway’s popular introductory solid state chemistry class exceed 10-250’s 450-person capa...

Grant D. Tomassi ’11 scores a goal late in the fourth period as the Engineers beat the University of California Santa Cruz, the defending NCAA Division III national champions, 13-9 Friday evening at the Zesiger Center...

David M. Nole ’09 fights for control of the ball with Rhode Island College’s Kyle Genereux during the MIT men’s soccer match on Saturday.