CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: In the halls of MIT, a distinctive thread of compassion weaves through the fabric of education. As students adjust to a postpandemic normal, many professors have played a pivotal role by helping them navigate the realities of hybrid learning and a rapidly changing postgraduation landscape. The Committed to Caring (C2C) program at MIT is a student-driven initiative that celebrates faculty more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 24 -- Akamai Technologies, a provider of content delivery network services, issued the following news release on April 23, 2024: Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today announced that its API Security product has achieved the latest (version 4.0) Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance. As part of this process, specific requirements that pertain to APIs were added. PCI DSS  more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 25 -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued the following news on April 24, 2024: Mayor Michelle Wu today announced Shin-pei Tsay as the new Director and Marcy Ostberg as Deputy Director of the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM). Tsay and Ostberg bring experience in urban planning and city government, including in areas of sustainability, transportation, housing, and education. Tsay and Ostberg both started earlier this month and are filling previous vacancies  more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 25 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT economics doctoral student Anna Russo studies how to improve the design, function, and outcomes of public policies. * * * By Benjamin Daniel, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Anna Russo likes puzzles. They require patience, organization, and a view of the big picture. She brings an investigator's eye to big institutional and societal challenges whose more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 25 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT researchers find circadian variations in liver function play an important role in how drugs are broken down in the body. * * * By Anne Trafton, MIT News Giving drugs at different times of day could significantly affect how they are metabolized in the liver, according to a new study from MIT. Using tiny, engineered livers derived from cells from human donors, the re more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 25 -- The city of Boston issued the following news on April 24, 2024: * * * REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF FUNDS On or about May 14, 2024, the City of Boston, acting through its Mayor's Office of Housing (MOH) will submit a request to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the release of Federal funds through the HOME Investment Partnerships Program pursuant to the authority of Title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, as a more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 24 -- Draper issued the following news on April 23, 2024: Draper announced today the opening of a new engineering and operations campus in Utah to serve its aerospace and defense customers and enhance its support of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Hill Air Force Base and other Department of Defense customers in the surrounding area. Located in metro Clearfield, Utah, the campus will serve as a nexus for Draper's support for missions and business in the U more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 24 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release on April 23, 2024: This week, Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell hosted the thirteenth annual National Cyber Crime Conference, the largest conference of its kind in the country. The conference is aimed at helping equip law enforcement and prosecutors with the tools and skills to effectively detect and combat cyber crime. The conference this year focused on Artificial Intelli more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 25 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The advance offers a way to characterize a fundamental resource needed for quantum computing. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News Entanglement is a form of correlation between quantum objects, such as particles at the atomic scale. This uniquely quantum phenomenon cannot be explained by the laws of classical physics, yet it is one of the properties that explains the macroscopic more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 22 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Annual awards from the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics provide financial support to graduate students in logistics, supply chain management, and freight transportation areas. * * * By Benjy Kantor, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics The MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) has announced Erin Bahm and Steven Parks as recipients of the UP more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 25 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on April 24, 2024: * * * The former vice chancellor for undergraduate and graduate education will leverage more than 30 years of experience at the Institute to oversee MIT's research activities. * * * By Zach Winn, MIT News In a letter to the MIT community today, President Sally Kornbluth announced the appointment of Ian A. Waitz to the position of vice president for research. In the r more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 25 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: As artificial intelligence, cloud computing and the digital economy rapidly grow, data centers are increasingly critical yet challenging to implement. Real estate partner Jack Creedon told The Deal that, "the grid can't support the amount of energy that these data centers will require." He noted that key markets such as Northern Virginia, Atlanta and Dallas are facing power constraints. "The transition  more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 25 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Programming course for incarcerated people boosts digital literacy and self-efficacy, highlighting potential for reduced recidivism. * * * By Rachel Gordon, MIT CSAIL Several years ago, a team of scientists from MIT and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell designed and deployed a first-of-its-kind web programming course for incarcerated individuals across multiple  more PR

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, April 25 -- Worcester Polytechnic Institute issued the following news release: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher Neil Heffernan has been awarded a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education's (DOE) Institute of Education Sciences to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) tutor that can help middle-school students learn math while doing homework. Under a cost-sharing agreement, the DOE's Institute of Education Sciences will contribute $3,749 more PR