FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 -- Ameresco, a cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, issued the following news release: Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE: AMRC), a leading cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, today announced it has received a Silver Award for Energy, Cleantech, and Environment Company of the Year in the 2024 Globee(R) Awards for American Business. The Globee Awards, which is part of the American Best in Busi  more

LONGMEADOW, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 -- Bay Path University issued the following news release: Bay Path University (BPU) is pleased to announce that Natalia F. Blank, PhD, has been elected to serve as the vice president for academic affairs (VPAA), effective January 2, 2024. Dr. Blank will serve on the executive leadership team and work across all divisions at the University. As VPAA, she will articulate a clear and compelling vision for the academic enterprise that builds on BPU's innovative appr  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Five multimedia projects communicating climate futures selected for 2023 WORLDING program, online and at MIT. * * * Virtual story worlds and game engines aren't just for video games anymore. They are now tools for scientists and storytellers to digitally twin existing physical spaces and then turn them into vessels to dream up speculative climate stories and build collecti  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 -- Flagship Pioneering, a bioplatform innovation company, issued the following news release on Jan. 8, 2024: Flagship Pioneering, the bioplatform innovation company, and Samsung today announced a collaboration aimed at fostering cutting-edge biopharmaceutical innovation poised to transform the world of healthcare through groundbreaking advancements in translational science and medicine. Through this collaboration, Samsung will work alongside Flagship-founded co  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 -- Flagship Pioneering, a bioplatform innovation company, issued the following news release on Jan. 8, 2024: Today Flagship Pioneering announced the promotions of four new Origination Partners responsible for leading the origination and growth of new pioneering platform companies: Kyle Chiang, Molly Gibson, Armen Mkrtchyan, and Jacob Rubens. Flagship Founder and CEO Noubar Afeyan shared the following remarks. Kyle Chiang "Kyle has consistently demonstrated a p  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 -- Flagship Pioneering, a bioplatform innovation company, issued the following news release on Jan. 8, 2024: Flagship Pioneering, the bioplatform innovation company, today announced the formation of a new strategic initiative to foster enabling technologies for the life sciences and biotech sectors. The initiative will work with partners and across Flagship and its ecosystem of companies to accelerate the development of new therapeutic modalities by enabling and  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 8 -- Foley Hoag, a law firm, issued the following news: Foley Hoag LLP announced Brooke Yates has been named Partner in Charge of the firm's Denver office. In this role Yates will oversee daily operation of that office in close collaboration with Managing Partners Jim Bucking and Jeff Collins. In particular, Yates will work with firm leadership to grow the Denver office; champion and support its lawyers and business services professionals; and act to uplift the loca  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release on Jan. 8, 2024: Today, Governor Maura Healey, Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and State Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg jointly appointed Ryan Dominguez to the Cannabis Social Equity Advisory Board. Dominguez is the founder and executive director of the Massachusetts Cannabis Coalition and Mass CultivatED, and in this role, will help advise efforts regarding the development   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Jan. 8, 2024: Today, Governor Maura Healey, Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and State Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg jointly appointed Ryan Dominguez to the Cannabis Social Equity Advisory Board. Dominguez is the founder and executive director of the Massachusetts Cannabis Coalition and Mass CultivatED, and in this role, will help advise efforts regarding the development of regulations,  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * New paper shows how policymakers could encourage the nascent clean hydrogen industry without indirectly increasing its carbon emissions. * * * By Zach Winn, MIT News Hydrogen is an integral component for the manufacture of steel, fertilizer, and a number of chemicals. Producing hydrogen using renewable electricity offers a way to clean up these and many other hard-to-deca  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * A multimodal system uses models trained on language, vision, and action data to help robots develop and execute plans for household, construction, and manufacturing tasks. * * * By Alex Shipps, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Your daily to-do list is likely pretty straightforward: wash the dishes, buy groceries, and other minutiae. It's unlikely   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Study finds chiral structures, with mirror-image configurations, can emerge from nonchiral systems, suggesting new ways to engineer these materials. * * * By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Hold your hands out in front of you, and no matter how you rotate them, it's impossible to superimpose one over the other. Our hands are a perfect example of chirality -- a geometric configura  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 -- Nutter, a law firm, issued the following news release: Mark Tarallo, a partner in Nutter's Corporate Department, was a featured guest on the Radio Entrepreneurs podcast. In the segment, "What to Expect in M&A in 2024", Mark weighed in on the state of the mergers and acquisitions market going into the new year. Mark said that potential sellers should start the process well in advance and due some self-diligence to ensure that their numbers stand up to scrutiny.  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 9 -- Rhode Island School of Design issued the following news release: Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) is pleased to announce the appointment of Amanda Clark MacMullan as vice president for Institutional Advancement, effective February 1, 2024. Clark MacMullan, who currently serves as senior vice president of programs & external affairs at the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS), brings more than 20 years of extensive fundraising experience in higher educat  more

LONGMEADOW, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 -- Bay Path University issued the following news release: Bay Path University is proud to announce that real estate legend, investor, best-selling author, entrepreneur, producer, and Shark Tank shark Barbara Corcoran will be the keynote speaker at the 27th Women's Leadership Conference (WLC), taking place in Springfield on Thursday, April 4, 2024. "Our conference theme this year is "Break Through," and Barbara Corcoran embodies this powerful concept of diggin  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT researchers propose "PEDS" method for developing models of complex physical systems in mechanics, optics, thermal transport, fluid dynamics, physical chemistry, climate, and more. * * * By Sandi Miller, Department of Mathematics In fields such as physics and engineering, partial differential equations (PDEs) are used to model complex physical processes to generate ins  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 -- The University of Massachusetts Boston campus issued the following news: UMass Boston's College of Management and their partner EM Normandie successfully co-hosted the 3rd Annual International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility. The conference, held October 10-11, 2023, brought together thought leaders, researchers, and industry experts from around the world to explore innovative research and approaches to corporate sustainability. The focus in 2023   more