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Michelle Fung ’13 shows students how to fold a pentagonal rose during OrigaMIT’s first origami conference on Saturday.

Team Instinct faces off against Team Believe the Hype in the finals of the Halo: Reach event at the Major League Gaming (MLG) competition in Providence, RI over the weekend. Instincts went on to become the MLG 2011 na...

Qimin Quan wins first place in the “Pitch to China” business plan competition for his biosensor technology for medical diagnostics, “Nano Health,” on Sunday. The competition was part of the MIT-China Innovation and En...

Salman A. Khan ’98, founder of Khan Academy, gives a lecture entitled “Rethinking Learning” to an overflowing lecture hall in 32-123 on Thursday. Khan, a former hedge fund analyst, has created 2,800 short video lectur...

While Occupy Harvard has raised many issues with university administration over the past several days, one of the more popular demands has been for fair contracts for Harvard custodial employees.

The Occupy Harvard movement, though unique to the university in a few aspects, clearly owes most of its inspiration to Occupy Wall Street.

A statue of John Harvard overlooks the Occupy Harvard movement on a wet Wednesday afternoon. The protest group has raised concerns over a wide set of issues at Harvard, from alleged questionable investment practices t...

Kresge was open for polling on Tuesday. Sloan graduate student Leland Cheung was re-elected to the Cambridge City Council with the greatest number of first-place votes.

John Solder, regional finalist at the Siemens Competition, explains his work on modifying neurons to be activated by light. The Siemens Regional competitions took place in Johnson on Friday and Saturday.

The women’s lightweight varsity 8 races in the Foot of the Charles Regatta on Saturday. The Engineers finished 32nd out of 43.

On Nov. 11, more than a hundred people gathered at the Building 8 end of the Infinite Corridor to catch a glimpse of MIThenge. MIThenge is a phenomenon that occurs twice a year when the setting sun aligns with the axi...

Marisa B. Fryer ’15 attempts to run through WPI’s defensive line during last Saturday’s New England Women’s Collegiate Rubgy Conference game against WPI. The Engineers entered the NEWCRC playoffs last week as the fift...

Jack D. Clark ’15 holds off a Harvard attacker during MIT Men’s Water Polo opener at the Collegiate Water Polo (CWPA) Northern Division championship. MIT lost a hard-fought battle with Harvard 11-10 in overtime to pla...

Hackers hung a banner on the inside of Lobby 7 commemorating the fifth of November. The Latin is five words beginning with the letter V, meaning, “By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe” —...

Hackers placed a Guy Fawkes mask, worn by the character V from V for Vendetta, over the blank face of the Alchemist statue early Saturday morning. The fifth of November is commemorated in Britain for the failure of th...

Hackers deployed a banner on Tuesday morning over Building 7 marking the end of the so-called “November rule.” The November rule discourages upperclassmen from becoming involved with freshmen beyond friendship or intr...