Engineer and MBA student Nagela Nukuna has always felt the pull of both technology and policy. One question drives her work: How do you use tech to scale social good? Now she hopes to use it to ensure fair elections.

A new study finds most loan money handed out through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) helped business owners and shareholders. Fast Company reports that “between 23% and 34% of PPP dollars went to workers who would’ve otherwise lost their jobs.”

Whether drops of liquid bead up or spread out on a surface is a crucial factor in many industrial technologies, from boilers to heat pipes. Engineers’ new surface-treatment method controls the wettability of virtually any liquid-surface pair.

What do we now know about Covid-19 reinfection? MIT Medical provides the latest on the chances of reinfection with the Omicron variant, as well as scientists’ current understanding of immunity from earlier variants.

Via @mitarchitecture on Twitter: “‘I’ve never been interested in institutions per se,’ @ACTMIT's Renée Green explains to @Artforum of her new exhibit in Berlin. ‘Always more so in the dreaming, in the fictional aspects that open up possibilities of how someone can live.’”

Melissa Wu ’05 is CEO of Seeding Labs, an NGO providing the resources needed to fight global diseases, feed a growing population, and protect the planet.