MIT students stretch minds and bodies
Exercise is Medicine class integrates physical activity and academics.
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Athletics
Women’s track and field wins first NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championship
MIT sweeps the 2024-25 NCAA Division III women’s cross country, indoor track and field, and outdoor track and field titles — becoming the first women’s program to win all three in the same year.
Women’s swimming and diving wins first NCAA Division III National Championship
MIT entered the event ranked as the top team in the country and came away with three individual national titles and four relay titles.
Women’s indoor track and field wins first NCAA Division III National Championship
With 49 points, MIT bests 61 other teams; senior Alexis Boykin wins shot put and weight throw national titles.
Women’s cross country runs to first NCAA Division III National Championship
The MIT women's cross country team claimed its title at the LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course.
Faces of MIT: Nick Jewell
The associate director of club sports, intramural sports, and sport camps shares the important role that athletics plays in finding community.
The many-body dynamics of cold atoms and cross-country running
Senior Olivia Rosenstein balances cross-country competitions with research in quantum gasses and early-universe radio wave signals.
Remembering Ken Johnson Jr., MIT DAPER director of communications, promotions, and marketing
His love of sports and working with students shone throughout his career.
MedLinks volunteers aid students in residence halls with minor medical issues
Some 150 MIT students participate in the 30-year-old program.
Arina Khotimsky ’23 awarded 2023 Michel David-Weill Scholarship
The award will support a master’s degree in international relations, the next step in Khotimsky’s planned career in international energy negotiations or policy.
MIT Wellness Wizard Certificate promotes health and well-being
New program supports the Institute’s vision of educating the whole student.
Bringing movement into the classroom and academics into the gym
An experimental new course rethinks the relationship between brains and bodies in schools.
Q&A: Cultivating the mind-body connection
Professor Emma Teng teamed up with Lead Wellness Instructor Sarah Johnson to create an entirely new type of class at MIT.
MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards third annual seed grants
The NCSOFT-sponsored program will advance cutting-edge technologies for gaming and data visualization.
MIT wrestler Sarah Sams crowned national women’s champion
Sams, Pannell, and Skaggs take all-America honors; team finishes in top 10 at nationals and regionals; McNeil named Northeast Conference Women’s Coach of the Year.