http://tech.mit.edu/img/small-flag-inv.gif http://tech.mit.edu/ Recent photos and graphics from The Tech /V129/N48/graphics/obama-2.html Meng Heng Touch—The Tech Crowds gather in front of 77 Mass. Ave awaiting the arrival of President Barack Obama to Kresge Auditorium on Oct. 23 for his clean energy speech. /V129/N48/graphics/obama-0.html Luke Sharrett—The New York Times President Barack Obama shows off his newly acquired T-shirt after learning about the energy storage research conducted by Professor Alexander H. Slocum ’82. MIT President Susan Hockfield accompanied Obama during his tour through the labs at MIT on Friday. Slocum explained a system for harnessing excess wind energy. When the wind is not blowing, water flowing into the storage area through a turbine produces electricity. When the wind is blowing, excess power is used to pump water out of the storage area. /V129/N48/graphics/obama-5.html Jeff Guo—The Tech A supporter of Lyndon LaRouche holds up a painting of the 2008 presidential candidates as she awaited the arrival of Obama to the MIT campus on Friday. “Why is Obama blue?” a bystander asked. “You go in there and ask him!” she laughed, pointing toward Kresge. /V129/N48/graphics/obama-6.html Jeff Guo—The Tech On Oct. 23, students who could not get into Kresge gathered in the Stratton Lounge to watch Obama’s speech on their computers. /V129/N48/graphics/makeicecream.html Dhaval Adjodah—The Tech Kevin A. Rafferty, Toscanini’s new ice-cream chef, has invented 26 new flavors of ice cream since joining the staff three months ago. Among his new flavors are “Drunken Three Musketeers” and “B3.” /V129/N48/graphics/obama-13.html Jeff Guo—The Tech An excited MIT student awaits the arrival of President Obama in front of 77 Mass. Ave on Friday. /V129/N48/graphics/obama-7.html Jessica Liu—The Tech President Barack Obama speaks about clean energy at Kresge on Friday. Obama’s speech followed a tour of several MIT labs that do energy-related research. /V129/N48/graphics/obama-8.html David Da He—The Tech President Barack Obama’s limousine transported him from Building 13 to Kresge Auditorium via Memorial Drive for his address on Oct. 23. /V129/N48/graphics/obama-4.html Jeff Guo—The Tech Demonstrators stirred up heated arguments with bystanders on Oct. 23 as they awaited the arrival of President Obama to the MIT campus. This demonstrator had another hand-lettered sign that read “Arrest obama for war crimes.” /V129/N48/graphics/obama-fp.html Sam Range—The Tech President Barack Obama speaks about his administration’s energy policy and MIT’s Energy Initiative at Kresge Auditorium on Friday. The President started his speech jovially mentioning that MIT hackers had placed his motorcade on Building 10. See pages 8–9 for more images of the event. /V129/N48/graphics/obama-10.html Aaron Thom Demonstrators on the steps of 77 Mass. Ave. on Friday morning show their support for the Massachusetts Cape Wind project and other policies to combat global warming. Their gathering coincided with the President’s arrival at MIT for a speech concerning national energy research and policy. /V129/N48/graphics/obama-3.html Sam Range—The Tech Photographers and video crews pack up supplies after President Obama’s address on Friday in Kresge. /V129/N48/graphics/obama-9.html Benjamin Scandella Members of the MIT community assemble in the shape of <350 to signal their support for achieving 350ppm or less of CO2 in the atmosphere, a number commonly cited as a “safe” level by scientists and politicians. The event was sponsored by Sustainability@MIT and took place on the same day as President Obama’s campus visit to speak about energy. /V129/N48/graphics/obama-1.html Vibin Kundukulam—The Tech President Obama chats amicably with Massachusetts Senator John Kerry as they both step out of Air Force One. The President’s private aircraft touched down at Logan airport at about 11:30 a.m. on Friday. /V129/N48/graphics/obama-11.html Jessica Liu—The Tech President Obama shakes hands with members of the audience following his speech about clean energy at Kresge on Friday. MIT was given 200 tickets to allocate; Kresge’s maximum capacity is 1,000 people. /V129/N48/graphics/stealmycomic.html