Via @getfitmit on Instagram: “Thank you to the members of Team GETFIT MIT at the Cambridge Spring Classic 5K this past Sunday! Thanks to you, we won the trophy for the largest social team! What a wonderful day with so much positive energy!”

Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson argue that the development of artificial intelligence should be shifted “toward a focus on ‘machine usefulness,’ the idea that computers should primarily enhance human capabilities.”

Since his first encounter with a research telescope as an undergraduate, Michael McDonald hasn’t slowed in his quest to understand the behavior of galaxies. One of his key discoveries is the Phoenix cluster, the only known galaxy cluster that is cooling at a rapid rate.

Via @MITFootball on Twitter: “The Engineers stepped up to help @BeTheMatchNE get more members of our community registered as marrow/stem cell donors to fight against blood cancers like leukemia. Thanks to Be The Match and to everyone who registered!”

Marzyeh Ghassemi spoke with NPR about how artificial intelligence could impact medicine. “When you take state-of-the-art machine-learning methods and systems and then evaluate them on different patient groups, they do not perform equally,” she said.

The MIT Sailing Pavilion, the oldest collegiate organization of its kind, offers community members a chance to sail for free — or just enjoy the good vibes. “It’s a place where people can escape the stresses of academic life at MIT,” says Fran Charles.