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A duck seeks a willow shaded shore in the setting autumn sun at Spy Pond in Somerville.

The MIT Lecture Series Committee presented Pitch Perfect, with performances by The Chorallaries (pictured here), The Muses, and Syncopasian in Room 26-100 on Wednesday, Sept. 26.

Four-tenths of a second after launch, this two-liter bottle rocket ascends above Briggs Field during a Gordon Engineering Leadership Program activity.

President L. Rafael Reif talked with students during dinner at Simmons Hall last Thursday evening. The visit coincided with Simmons’ 10th anniversary, celebrated over the weekend and with the unveiling of a 144”, twel...

MIT hosted the Midweek Tech Invitational last Wednesday, the first midweek regatta of the sailing season. The sailors raced on Rondar Fireflies, the sailing boats used in the 1948 Olympics. MIT placed 9th, 11th, 13th,...

Joseph M. Paggi ’16 (left) and Priyanka M. Chatterjee ’15 represent the A division sailing team in the Smith Cup, held this past Saturday. The team placed second in its event, losing to Tufts University.

Elizabeth A. Dethy ’15 dribbles the ball in the Women’s Field Hockey game against Endicott College last Thursday. MIT won 5–3.

An energetic crowd gathered on Kresge Lawn for MIT’s largest Zumba class on Thursday afternoon.

Lindsey M. Wang ’16, serves in the women’s volleyball game against US Coast Guard Academy on Tuesday night. MIT won 3 sets to 1.

MIT’s 14th president Paul E. Gray ’54 spoke at the ceremony. In fact, the past three presidents prior to Reif were in attendance: Gray, Charles M. Vest, and Susan J. Hockfield.

The MIT Ceremonial Brass performs.

John S. Reed ’61, chairman of the MIT Corporation, hands over the Charter of MIT to President L. Rafael Reif, making Reif’s presidency official.

The student percussion ensemble Rambax performs at the ceremony.

Runners take off from the starting line at the sound of the signal at the 2012 fall Beaver Dash on Saturday morning. The 5K run was part of the inauguration festivities for President L. Rafael Reif and benefits Habita...

The MIT Chorallaries sung a crowd-pleasing “The Engineer’s Drinking Song.”

Aaron H. Swartz, accused of mass downloading over two million documents from the JSTOR online journal archive with the intent to distribute them, exits federal court in Boston yesterday morning. Swartz appeared for an...