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Health and Fitness Club makes a comebackTwo MIT Sloan students resurrect the club with fitness classes, martial arts lessons and other activities.

Sports Shorts for Feb. 11: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsTashman, Low earn NEWMAC Player of the Week honors; men's volleyball wins at Mount Ida

Slideshow: Snow daysMembers of the MIT community revel in a wintry wonderland.

IS&T recommends Firefox users upgrade to Firefox ESR 17The Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox is designed for institutions like MIT.

MIT engineers elected to national academyThree engineers are among this year’s 69 new National Academy of Engineering members.

Ready to respondRegular drills prepare MIT Medical staffers to deal with emergencies.

Find images to use while keeping on the right side of copyrightGuidelines and resources on the use of images.

CEE students build model Guastavino vault for exhibitThe students' vaulted ceiling replica is part of a touring exhibit now at the Boston Public Library.

Music and Theater Arts celebrates the 50th anniversary of Jazz at MITChick Corea composing a work for the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble.

IS&T addresses concerns about MIT’s networkInformation Services & Technology sheds light on recent service interruptions, as well as steps taken to mitigate risks to the MIT network.

Subra Suresh named next president of Carnegie Mellon UniversityFormer dean of the MIT School of Engineering to step down from NSF post.

Reducing wasted energy in commercial buildingsMuch energy is wasted heating and cooling indoor spaces when no one or almost no one is present. Now, MIT researchers have used their own campus to demonstrate a means of measuring that energy/occupancy mismatch.

Lawmakers focus on MIT fusion researchThree Congressmen visited the Plasma Science and Fusion Center last week.

SA+P faculty, alumni make their mark in TEDA collection of TEDTalks videos featuring researchers and innovators with ties to MIT's School of Architecture + Planning.

Renovation plans offer MIT opportunities to save energy, improve designWork aims to make the Institute more energy-efficient and to influence design standards in the construction industry.

Chisholm, Langer receive nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventorsPresident Obama presented the two MIT professors with the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation on Friday.