Sports Shorts for Jan. 11, 2016: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Overall and Conference Records (as of January 11, 2016)Men’s Basketball: 9-3 (1-1 NEWMAC)Women’s Basketball: 8-4 (4-1 NEWMAC)Men’s Fencing: 5-6 (3-2 NEFC)Women’s Fencing: 8-4 (5-1 NEFC)Rifle:...
View ArticleSports Shorts for Jan. 19, 2016: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Overall and Conference Records (as of January 18, 2016):Men’s Basketball: 11-3 (3-1 NEWMAC)Women’s Basketball: 11-4 (7-1 NEWMAC)Men’s Fencing: 5-6 (3-2 NEFC)Women’s Fencing: 8-4 (5-1 NEFC)Rifle:...
View ArticleSports Shorts for Jan. 25, 2016: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Overall and Conference Records (as of January 25, 2016):Men’s Basketball: 12-4 (4-2 NEWMAC)Women’s Basketball: 13-4 (7-2 NEWMAC)Men’s Fencing: 7-9 (5-5 NEFC)Women’s Fencing: 13-5 (10-2 NEFC)Rifle:...
View ArticleSports Shorts for Feb. 1, 2016: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Overall and Conference Records (as of February 1, 2016)Men’s Basketball: 14-4 (6-2 NEWMAC)Women’s Basketball: 13-6 (8-3 NEWMAC)Men’s Fencing: 10-11 (5-5 NEFC)Women’s Fencing: 17-6 (10-2 NEFC)Rifle:...
View ArticleMIT Recreation launches new website
Health and wellness at MIT just got a little bit easier with the launch of MIT Recreation’s redesigned website. The website includes a sleek, responsive design and key features that provide quick...
View ArticleSports Shorts for Feb. 8, 2016: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Overall and Conference Records (as of February 8, 2016)Men’s Basketball: 16-4 (8-2 NEWMAC)Women’s Basketball: 15-6 (10-3 NEWMAC)Men’s Fencing: 10-11 (5-5 NEFC)Women’s Fencing: 17-6 (10-2 NEFC)Rifle:...
View ArticleSports Shorts for Feb. 22, 2016: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Overall and Conference Records (As of February 22, 2016)Men’s Basketball: 19-6 (10-4 NEWMAC)Women’s Basketball: 17-8 (11-5 NEWMAC)Men’s Fencing: 10-14 (5-5 NEFC)Women’s Fencing: 17-9 (10-2 NEFC)Rifle:...
View ArticleSports Shorts for Feb. 29, 2016: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Overall and Conference Records (as of Feb. 29, 2016)Men’s Basketball: 20-7 (10-4 NEWMAC)Women’s Basketball: 17-9 (11-5 NEWMAC)Men’s Fencing: 10-14 (5-5 NEFC)Women’s Fencing: 17-9 (10-2 NEFC)Rifle:...
View ArticleSabrina Drammis named to CoSIDA Women's Basketball Academic All-America...
Senior Sabrina Drammis became the second player in the history of the MIT women’s basketball program to be a repeat Academic All-America selection with her placement on the second team as announced by...
View ArticleSports Shorts for March 7, 2016: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Overall and Conference Records (as of March 7, 2016)Men’s Basketball: 20-7 (10-4 NEWMAC)Women’s Basketball: 17-9 (11-5 NEWMAC)Men’s Fencing: 10-14 (5-5 NEFC)Women’s Fencing: 17-9 (10-2 NEFC)Men’s...
View ArticleVirdi wins third-straight indoor pole vault title at NCAA Indoor Championship
On the first of two days at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championship, senior Cimran Virdi won her third-consecutive pole vault title with a facility record height of 13 feet, 6.5...
View ArticleSports Shorts for March 14, 2016: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Overall and Conference Records (as of March 14, 2016)Baseball: 0-3Men’s Fencing: 10-14 (5-5 NEFC)Women’s Fencing: 17-9 (10-2 NEFC)Men’s Lacrosse: 3-0Women’s Lacrosse: 2-2Men’s Swimming and Diving:...
View ArticleSports Shorts for March 21, 2016: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Overall and Conference Records (as of March 21, 2016)Baseball: 1-4Men’s Lacrosse: 5-0Women’s Lacrosse: 4-2Softball: 1-3Men’s Tennis- 4-3Women’s Tennis- 10-3 (8-0 NEWMAC)Men’s Volleyball: 19-6 (3-3...
View ArticleKogut wins 200-yard butterfly national title at NCAA championship
On the third night of the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championship held last week in Greensboro, North Carolina, sophomore Douglas Kogut captured the 200-yard butterfly national title with a...
View ArticleSports Shorts for April 4, 2016: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Overall and Conference Records (as of April 4, 2016)Baseball: 4-8 (2-1 NEWMAC)Men’s Lacrosse: 7-2 (1-0 NEWMAC)Women’s Lacrosse: 6-3 (1-1 NEWMAC)Softball: 13-5 (6-0 NEWMAC)Men’s Tennis: 4-3Women’s...
View ArticleSports Shorts for April 11, 2016: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Overall and Conference Records (as of April 11, 2016)Baseball: 9-8 (7-1 NEWMAC)Men’s Lacrosse: 8-3 (1-1 NEWMAC)Women’s Lacrosse: 7-3 (2-1 NEWMAC)Softball: 17-5 (10-0 NEWMAC)Men’s Tennis- 6-3 (1-0...
View ArticleAn ace on the court and in the lab
MIT senior Ava Soleimany knows the value of determination in the lab, and on the tennis court. The major in course 6-7 (Computer Science and Molecular Biology) is an award-winning researcher, as well...
View ArticleSports Shorts for April 19, 2016: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Overall and Conference Records (as of April 19, 2016)Baseball: 14-9 (11-2 NEWMAC)Men’s Lacrosse: 9-3 (2-1 NEWMAC)Women’s Lacrosse: 9-3 (4-1 NEWMAC)Softball: 23-5 (14-0 NEWMAC)Men’s Tennis- 8-4 (3-0...
View ArticleGift to MIT will endow director of sports medicine position
MIT’s Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) has received a $2.5 million gift that will be used to endow the department’s director of sports medicine position. The...
View ArticleThree student-athletes receive NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships
Seniors Sabrina Drammis, Margaret Guo, and Nicole Zeinstra were awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships following the 2016 winter season. Guo, a member of the women's swimming and diving team, and...
View ArticleMIT Softball secures a spot in NCAA College World Series
After defeating host Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in two out of three games in the NCAA Softball Championship Super Regionals this past weekend, MIT clinched a spot in the College World Series...
View ArticleMIT student-athletes receive CoSIDA Academic All-America honors in softball...
Recent graduate Tori Jensen '16 of the MIT softball team and rising seniors John Drago and David Hesslink of the MIT baseball team were voted to the College Sports Information Directors of America...
View ArticleScene at MIT: Sundown, touchdown
"One of our assistant football coaches, James Klein, took this picture out on Briggs Field during a team practice. When he showed it to another assistant coach, they immediately told him send it to me,...
View ArticleMargaret Guo '16 named NCAA Woman of the Year
On Sunday evening in Indianapolis, former MIT swimmer Margaret Guo '16 was named as the 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year award winner in a ceremony held at the Westin Hotel. One of the highest honors...
View ArticleThis is how we row
“Expect the heaviest headwind at the start,” says Chloe Thacker, the coxswain for an MIT boat competing in the 52nd Head of the Charles Regatta. Eight rowers in the lightweight women’s rowing program...
View ArticleMIT Football tackles diversity and inclusion conversations
The stands were filled with cheering fans. Music pulsed through the warm early fall breeze. On this particular Saturday, Sept. 17, everyone was ready for some football.Players from MIT and rival...
View ArticleAcademic All-Americans
Edging out the University of Notre Dame, this year MIT moved into second place in the all-time national rankings for Academic All-American student-athletes. Now with 252, MIT has had more superstar...
View ArticleMaryann Gong earns second-straight Division III Academic All-America of the...
MIT master's student and recent graduate Maryann Gong '17, a student-athlete on the MIT Women's Cross Country and MIT Women's Track and Field teams, has earned the 2016-17 CoSIDA Division III Academic...
View ArticleMaryann Gong named 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year Top 30 honoree
Former MIT All-American cross country/track standout Maryann Gong, from Livermore, California, has been named as a Top 30 honoree for the 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year Award. Gong is just the third...
View ArticleJulie Soriero named president of the Women Leaders in College Sports
MIT Director of Athletics Julie Soriero has been named the new president of the Women Leaders in College Sports, as announced at the organization’s recent convention held in Dallas, Texas.“I feel...
View ArticleJulie Soriero receives NCAA President's Pat Summitt Award
On Jan. 18 at the NCAA Convention in Indianapolis, MIT Director of Athletics Julie Soriero was presented with the 2018 NCAA President’s Pat Summitt Award by NCAA President Mark Emmert.Created in 2017,...
View ArticleMIT finishes second in 2018 Learfield Cup Final Standings
MIT has finished second overall in the final 2018 Learfield Directors’ Cup standings. This marks the highest finish in history for the Engineers, as MIT finished with a total of 1001.5 points.“I am...
View ArticleHealthy mind and body
A group of students sit in a circle, their eyes closed, and their legs crossed. Upon the instructor’s words, they breathe in, and then out in harmony.Deep breathing exercises are probably not the first...
View ArticlePilot program helps students boost wellness
MIT’s new ENGINEERyourHEALTH PLUSprogram utilizes recreation to help students find practices to enhance their emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing. The program was developed by Director of MIT...
View ArticleSenior Associate Athletic Director John Benedick to retire after 44 years at MIT
MIT Senior Associate Director of Athletics John Benedick has announced his retirement, effective at the end of the 2018-19 academic year.“It is difficult to put into a few words the experience of a...
View ArticleMIT athletes earn four NEWMAC championships
The fall season was another successful one for MIT Athletics as the Engineers achieved both athletically and academically.MIT teams claimed four New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference...
View ArticleDavid H. Koch, prominent supporter of cancer research at MIT, dies at 79
David H. Koch ’62, SM ’63, one of the most important benefactors in MIT’s modern history, has died. He was 79 years old.Koch’s willingness to back significant initiatives at the Institute was...
View ArticleG. Anthony Grant named director of athletics, DAPER department head
G. Anthony Grant has been named MIT’s new athletic director and head of the Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER).“This role is a big one, and I am excited for Dr. Grant...
View ArticleMoving forward by moving
Nine months ago, the MIT gym stood silent. Campus had gone into lockdown and the gym that had been a hub for working off stress between classes, a place where students danced their hearts out to Zumba,...
View ArticleJulie Soriero inducted into National Association of Collegiate Directors of...
Former MIT Director of Athletics and head of the MIT Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation Julie Soriero has been inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of...
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View ArticleBringing movement into the classroom and academics into the gym
It’s highly unusual for MIT students to be encouraged to throw one another to the floor, but that’s exactly what was happening during a lab that met in the Wrestling Room at the duPont Athletic Center...
View ArticleKarenna Groff ’22 Named NCAA Woman of the Year
MIT graduate studentKarenna Groff ’22 of Weston, Massachusetts, a member of the MIT women's soccer team, was named the NCAA 2022 Woman of the Year at the NCAA Convention in San Antonio, Texas.The most...
View ArticleMIT Wellness Wizard Certificate promotes health and well-being
Over the course of several years of research, surveys, and focus groups, MIT students and Physical Education and Wellness instructors and coaches in the Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and...
View ArticleMedLinks volunteers aid students in residence halls with minor medical issues
For 30 years, MIT MedLinks liaisons have volunteered to support MIT students with first-line medical care. Living in each of MIT’s residence halls and in numerous fraternities, sororities, and...
View ArticleMIT course aids social connection, better relationships, and happiness
As part of MIT Chancellor Melissa Nobles’s effort to educate the whole student, MIT’s chaplain to the Institute and associate dean Thea Keith-Lucas, along with colleagues Natalie Hill, a Methodist...
View ArticleNourishing the mind, hand, and stomach
As early as middle school, Branden Spitzer loved to watch cooking shows and experiment with recipes in his family’s kitchen. It was a clear harbinger of his interest in materials science, he says now....
View ArticleRemembering Ken Johnson Jr., MIT DAPER director of communications,...
On Feb. 12, the Division of Student Life and MIT lost a valued community member. Ken Johnson Jr., director of communications, promotions, and marketing in the Department of Athletics, Physical...
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