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Course 2 ­— Building 3 — Pappalardo Lab. The Pappalardo Lab is the Course 2 undergraduate teaching laboratory and is home to MIT’s primary machine shop. Many mechanical engineering classes, including 2.004 (Dynamics a...

Course 4 — Building 7 — Architecture Studio. Students take classes, work on projects, and sometimes sleep in the architecture studio.

Course 16 — Building 37 — Man Vehicle Lab. The MVL studies the cognitive and physiological limitations imposed by spaceflight. Dava J. Newman’s PhD ’92’s BioSuit spacesuit concept would give astronauts an unprecedente...

Course 3 — Building 8 — Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory. Students use the teaching laboratories to study biomaterials, chemical synthesis, and physical and electronic properties in 3.014 and 3.042.

Course 7 — Whitehead Institute — Weinberg Lab. The Weinberg lab investigates cancer stem cells and mechanisms of metastasis. Ras, the first human oncogene, was discovered by the Weinberg lab in 1979.

Course 20 — Building 16 — Niles Lab. The Niles lab uses biochemical methods to engineer tools for studying infectious diseases and model organisms. Niles’s current work focuses on malaria parasite biology and controll...

Hackers illuminated both domes with purple lights and placed a purple ribbon above the entrance to 77 Mass. Ave on Wednesday. The lights honor Paint the Campus Purple week and the Relay for Life to fight cancer. Relay...

Using props and sketches, the winning team of the FarmHack Event presents design solutions for water usage and associated energy consumption for small-scale farms. Farmhack@MIT, which is part of the MIT Global Challen...

Jeremy M. Hahn ’12 (Protoss) takes on Yue Jack Chu G (Terran) in the first round of the Starcraft II tournament finals on Sunday, March 6. Hahn went on to the final round, but lost to Max M. Nelson ’12 (Terran).

Robert A. Weber ’13 throws the frisbee under pressure from a Northeastern defender. The Engineers and the Northeastern Huskies played an exhibition game at TD Garden on Sunday, March 6.

Patrick J. Vatterott ’13 prepares to spike the ball after a set by Timothy R. Lee ’11 in the Men’s Volleyball game held at Rockwell Cage this Saturday. The Engineers beat Mount Ida College in a decisive victory with a...

An event was held on Tuesday at noon in Lobby 7 to greet the new Chancellor on his first day on the job. Lobby 7 was decorated with a string of lights for the event, which was well-attended by students, staff, and adm...

Mounds of toilet paper litter the floor of the popular lecture hall 26-100 at the conclusion of Bad Taste.

Burton Third Bombers cheered when they were honored in a brief skit during the Chorallaries’ Nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste in 26-100 on Saturday.

Varsha J. Raghavan ’14 and Gustavo N. Goretkin ’13 perform a skit about friendly interactions between local college students.

Current and former members of the Chorallaries perform “The Engineers’ Drinking Song” during their Bad Taste concert on Saturday.