Via @NCAADIII on Twitter: “Congratulations to the MIT Engineers, your 2022 #NCAAD3 Men's Cross Country NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!”

A new technique that accurately measures how atom-thin materials expand when heated could help develop faster, more powerful electronic devices. Such two-dimensional materials can be packed together more densely than conventional electronics.

Guided by Associate Professor Sana Aiyar and others, student researchers have discovered stories of South Asians at MIT woven into the larger histories of the Institute, the U.S., and South Asia. The launch of a related exhibit “was like an entire community coming together,” says senior Amulya Aluru.

MIT’s student coders have won the globe’s oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest: the International Collegiate Programming Contest. The 45th world finals drew a live audience of over 1,600 viewers in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

On a mission to change people’s perception of rum, Marc-Kwesi Farrell ’03 has launched a startup, Ten To One, that aims to better reflect the spirit’s “dynamism, vitality, and uniqueness that comes with the fabric of Caribbean culture.”

Proper ventilation is key to reducing spread of Covid-19, but a new study finds that indoor humidity levels may also influence transmission of the virus: Relative humidity of 40 to 60 percent is associated with lower rates of infection and death.