MIT HEALS brings together researchers to find new solutions to challenges in health care. It aims to help improve patient care and strengthen connections within the Institute and with Boston-area hospitals and biotech companies. 

In the latest episode of Curiosity Unbounded, President Sally Kornbluth spoke with Stefanie Mueller. The two discussed the future of customizable 3D printing, what it could mean to manufacturing and sustainability, and how to make it accessible.

Via @mitathletics on Instagram: “The MIT swim and dive team sent their seniors off in style as both teams earned wins over Amherst. The No. 3 women’s team earned a 209.5-86.5 win while the No. 5 men grabbed a 164-121 win over the Mammoths.”

MIT civil and environmental engineering students turn ideas into prototypes: In 1.101 Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design, students tackle real-world challenges through creative problem solving, hands-on design, and collaboration.

For MIT’s athletes, skill in sports and studies go hand in hand. “Our student-athletes exemplify the fact that high performance and success in athletics and high performance and success in academics are not mutually exclusive,” G. Anthony Grant says.

A new book by David Mindell draws from the Enlightenment to show how today’s inventors can produce useful technologies and good jobs. “How you improve the making, fixing, rebuilding, or upgrading of systems” is just as important as inventing new products, he says.