CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Itz'at STEAM Academy, an effort between MIT and the Belize Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, and Technology, pushes the boundaries of education through innovative methodologies. * * * By Katherine Ouellette, MIT Open Learning When 14-year-old Jahzhia Moralez played a vocabulary game that involved jumping onto her friend like a backpack, she knew Itz'at STEAM Acade more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The sustainable and cost-saving structure could dissipate more than 95 percent of incoming wave energy using a small fraction of the material normally needed. * * * By Jennifer Chu, MIT News The beautiful, gnarled, nooked-and-crannied reefs that surround tropical islands serve as a marine refuge and natural buffer against stormy seas. But as the effects of climate chan more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 27 -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued the following news on March 26, 2024: Mayor Michelle Wu and the Office of Black Male Advancement today announced the awardees for the 2024 Community Empowerment Grants. These grants are a $500,000 investment aimed at supporting community-based organizations that are focused on empowering and improving outcomes for Black men and boys in Boston. These grants will help organizations scale up their work and deepen their impact throu more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 27 -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued the following news on March 26, 2024: Mayor Michelle Wu today announced six Open Streets events, adding Hyde Park as an Open Streets location and beginning the popular car-free event series earlier in the year. Similar to years past, more than a mile will be temporarily closed to vehicular traffic to create room for community and play. The half-day events will allow local businesses to expand into the street, and to safely make  more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 26 -- Boston University issued the following news on March 25, 2024: By Joel Brown and Molly Callahan Boston University Graduate Workers Union kicked off a strike on Monday with a noon rally on Marsh Plaza that featured fiery words from a number of graduate students, along with a speech from U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and a later appearance by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Members of BUGWU, which represents more than 3,000 master's, p more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 26 -- Boston University issued the following news on March 25, 2024: By Rich Barlow and Amy Laskowski Ahead of the Boston University graduate students' strike Monday, Nathan Phillips was brainstorming workarounds for the absence of his teaching assistant (TA). The professor of earth and environment in the College of Arts & Sciences says that his TA's contribution is invaluable. "The teaching fellow leads on some of the actual lecture materials. They bring in their more PR

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, March 27 (TNSres) -- Clark University issued the following news: As efforts to restore tree cover accelerate to help avoid runaway climate change, a study by Clark University researchers highlights how restoring tree cover can, in some locations, heat up the Earth rather than cool it by affecting how much sunlight the surface reflects (called "the albedo"). The study by lead author Natalia Hasler, a research scientist at the George Perkins Marsh Institute, and co-auth more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 27 -- Matter Communications, a public relation and social media firm, issued the following news on March 26, 2024: Matter Communications - a Brand Elevation Agency integrating PR, marketing and creative services - today announced the growth of its Precision group, a PR and content division of Matter that provides highly focused programs to support brands' biggest business drivers, in sustainability/Greentech and nonprofit categories. The concerted efforts of the tea more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * With help from a large language model, MIT engineers enabled robots to self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores. * * * By Jennifer Chu, MIT News From wiping up spills to serving up food, robots are being taught to carry out increasingly complicated household tasks. Many such home-bot trainees are learning through imitation; they are programmed to copy t more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 27 -- The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection issued the following news release on March 26, 2024: The Healey-Driscoll Administration today announced that more than $1.4 billion in low-interest-rate loans and grants will fund 168 projects across the Commonwealth designed to improve water quality, upgrade or replace aging drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, and promote energy efficiency measures at water treatment facilities. "This is a su more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 26 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Food and Drug Administration, et al., v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the most significant abortion rights case since this same Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. If the Supreme Court upholds the Fifth Circuit's extreme ruling, there will be severe impacts across the country, including restricting access to the medication aborti more PR

LOWELL, Massachusetts, March 27 -- Middlesex Community College issued the following news release: This summer, Middlesex Community College and Lowell Public Schools (LPS) will debut the Paraprofessional Pilot Program to assist paraprofessionals in getting a teaching license. The goal of the partnership is to diversify the teaching workforce, develop a highly qualified staff, and stabilize classroom teacher staffing. "We are eager to partner with Lowell Public Schools to create a pathway for al more PR

LOWELL, Massachusetts, March 27 -- Middlesex Community College issued the following news release: Middlesex Community College will host award-winning poet Kathleen Aguero as part of the college's Visiting Writers Series at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 4 in the Bedford Campus Cafe East. "Discussions of the value of literature often center around its role in expanding the moral imagination," Aguero said. "I am persuaded that teaching creative writing is also a means to this end. To write we nee more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 27 -- Mintz, a law firm, issued the following news release: Mintz is pleased to announce that Venture Capital & Emerging Companies Co-chair Jeremy Glaser and Members Sebastian Lucier and Pedro Suarez have been named to the San Diego Business Journal's Leaders of Influence in Technology 2024 list. The award recognizes industry leaders in technology and highlights their careers and accomplishments. Jeremy serves as Co-chair of the firm's Venture Capital & Emerging Co more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 27 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management issued the following news release: * * * New MIT Sloan research, based on Clarity AI data, finds that companies that don't receive external assurance are not actually making carbon emissions reductions despite setting targets, and furthermore, even small companies should have third party audits. * * * Before companies even think about planning to reduce their carbon emissions more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The new approach "nudges" existing climate simulations closer to future reality. * * * By Jennifer Chu, MIT News To assess a community's risk of extreme weather, policymakers rely first on global climate models that can be run decades, and even centuries, forward in time, but only at a coarse resolution. These models might be used to gauge, for instance, future climate c more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Researchers demonstrate a technique that can be used to probe a model to see what it knows about new subjects. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News Large language models, such as those that power popular artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT, are incredibly complex. Even though these models are being used as tools in many areas, such as customer support, code generation, more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following Q&A on March 25, 2024: * * * Doctoral student and recent MAD Design Fellow Jonathan Zong SM '20 discusses a proposed framework to map how individuals can say "no" to technology misuses. * * * By Adelaide Zollinger, MIT Morningside Academy for Design This month in the ACM Journal on Responsible Computing, MIT graduate student Jonathan Zong SM '20 and co-author J. Nathan Matias SM ' more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 27 -- O'Reilly issued the following news release on March 26, 2024: O'Reilly, the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, today announced its ranking as a Core Challenger for Digital Learning within the prestigious Fosway 9-Grid(TM). O'Reilly has been named a Core Challenger for Digital Learning in Fosway's independently verified analysis of solutions and providers. O'Reilly's digital platform and learning experiences were selected fo more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 27 (TNSres) -- Boston University's College of Communication issued the following news: More Americans are adopting tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, but a new opinion survey suggests scoring in their own ability to evaluate the accuracy, reliability, completeness, and biases of the text generated by artificial intelligence is cause for concern, according to a researcher who led the study. Yi Grace Ji, assistant professor at Boston University's College of Co more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 27 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: Ropes & Gray represented clients in three of the top 10 and four of the top 20 biopharmaceutical licensing deals measured by deal value, according to an analysis by DealForma. Ropes & Gray licensing partners advised clients in these top deals for an aggregate value of $14.7 billion. Among the deals Ropes & Gray was involved in were the following: * Pfizer in a strategic collaboration with Flagship Pioneer more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 27 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: Ropes & Gray represented underwriters Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in Borse Dubai Limited's secondary offering of approximately $1.8 billion of stock of Nasdaq, Inc. The announcement was made in a March 19 press release and the transaction closed on March 22. The team was led by capital markets partners Paul Tropp and Daniel Forman. * * * Original text here: https://www.ropesgray.com/en/news-and-ev more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 27 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: Ropes & Gray litigation & enforcement partner Alex Rene (Washington, D.C.) has been elected to the Coalition for Integrity's Board of Directors. Alex is a member of Ropes & Gray's governing Policy Committee and a former co-head of the firm's litigation and enforcement practice group. He previously served as the independent FCPA compliance monitor for Embraer and currently serves in that role for Glencore. more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 27 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news on March 25, 2024: Recent data shows that since the first quarter of 2022, limited partners have collectively made $198.1 billion more in contributions to their private-equity managers than they have received back in distributions. In a recent Wall Street Journal Pro article, asset management partner and co-leader of the sponsor solutions group Debra Lussier said, "You'll hear about this concept that an LP more PR

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, March 27 -- DNV, a provider of classification, technical assurance, software and independent expert advisory services, issued the following news: DNV delivers yet another set of record-breaking results, increasing revenues in 2023 by 26.2% compared with the year before. The company continues to grow within its strategic growth areas related to cyber security, aquaculture, and renewable energy. DNV also registered a solid growth in its number of employees. Hovik, Norw more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The behavior of granular materials has been difficult to visualize, but a new method reveals their internal forces in 3D detail. * * * By David L. Chandler, MIT News Granular materials, those made up of individual pieces, whether grains of sand or coffee beans or pebbles, are the most abundant form of solid matter on Earth. The way these materials move and react to ext more PR

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, March 27 -- Worcester Polytechnic Institute issued the following news release: Two notable alumni will return to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) this spring as the honored speakers for the Class of 2024 Commencement exercises, to be held May 9 and 10 at the DCU Center in downtown Worcester: * Award-winning television writer Nancy M. Pimental '87, will deliver the address at the university's Undergraduate Commencement ceremony at 2 p.m. Friday, May 10. * Entre more PR