FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 -- 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 announces they have been awarded an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) from Warren Woods Public Schools in Warren, Michigan. The collaboration aims to improve the district's facilities by promoting sustainability,   more

BOLTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- Arsenal Capital Partners, a firm that specializes in investing in and building transformational healthcare companies, issued the following news: Bolton, MA, USA & Nuremberg, Germany -- Headwall Photonics, a pioneering force in spectral imaging solutions for remote sensing and industrial machine vision, today announced its acquisition of inno-spec GmbH of Nuremberg, Germany, a prominent manufacturer of industrial hyperspectral imaging systems used in high-volume  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- The University of Massachusetts Boston campus issued the following news: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced during her annual state of the city address earlier this month a new partnership between Boston Public Schools and UMass Boston to transform the McCormack School on Columbia Point into the city's first university-assisted community school. "Tonight, I'm also excited to announce that UMass Boston has signed an agreement with BPS to make the BCLA-McCormack  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- The city of Boston issued the following news release: The Boston Parks and Recreation Department has announced that Walsh Playground at 1005 Washington Street in Dorchester will receive $500,000 as part of $13 million in grant funding recently announced by the Healey-Driscoll Administration. The grants, administered through the state's Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs' Parkland Acquisitions and Renovations for Communities (PARC) grant progra  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- The city of Boston issued the following news release: The year 2023 marked significant changes to the Urban Forestry Division of Boston's Parks Department. These changes will have lasting impacts on achieving the City's long-term plan of growing a sustainable and equitable urban forest. Since the release of the Urban Forest Plan (https://www.boston.gov/departments/parks-and-recreation/urban-forest-plan) in September of 2022, the Division added many new employee  more

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 -- Clark University issued the following news: By Melissa Hanson Adam Tomczik '06, M.A. '07, was consumed by depression. He stopped making plans and dreaming about the future. He felt hopeless. "It was one miserable day at a time," he recalls. "Like being in a deep dark hole, unable to climb out." When protests spilled out onto city streets in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder, Tomczik was in the thick of it. He and his family lived in the Minneapolis   more

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 -- Clark University issued the following news: By Melissa Hanson During their first year at Clark, political science majors Ruthie Brian '24, Beiyna Chaparian '24, and Anna Walker '24 took a course that called for comic books rather than textbooks. In the First-Year Intensive course Comic Books and Politics with Professor Ora Szekely, students used superhero tropes as a vehicle to analyze historical and contemporary politics. The course made such an impressio  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- DataRobot, an artificial intelligence that enhance business transactions and human interactions, issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2024: DataRobot, the leader in Value-Driven AI, today announced the DataRobot Generative AI Catalyst Program, designed to address the generative AI skills gap with a holistic offering to jumpstart and accelerate the delivery of high-impact generative AI use cases. The new program provides organizations with critical tool  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: By Sara Feijo, MIT Open Learning When June Odongo interviewed early-career electrical engineer Cynthia Wacheke for a software engineering position at her company, Wacheke lacked knowledge of computer science theory but showed potential in complex problem-solving. Determined to give Wacheke a shot, Odongo turned to MIT OpenCourseWare to create a six-month "bridging course" modele  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * New Decarbonization Working Group will leverage member expertise to explore and assess existing and in-development solutions to decarbonize the MIT campus by 2050. * * * By Nicole Morell, MIT Office of Sustainability With a goal to decarbonize the MIT campus by 2050, the Institute must look at "new ideas, transformed into practical solutions, in record time," as stated   more

FITCHBURG, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 -- Fitchburg State University issued the following news: As the longtime advisor to its pre-law program, Fitchburg State University Professor Paul Weizer has seen many former students go on to successful careers in the law. He has also seen otherwise successful students struggle with the standardized test that can qualify them for law school. This year, Weizer led the effort for Fitchburg State to join a pilot program of five institutions nationwide to try an   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- Harvard University issued the following news on Jan. 23, 2024: Circumstances shift, priorities change, and money comes and goes. But in a world where even facts seem to be at war with each other, U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney said Monday that a person's values tend to be constant and ought to be heeded. "When you go into an enterprise, go into a job, if you start compromising on your values, you're going to find that maybe you'll be more successful -- I don't know   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2024: The Healey-Driscoll Administration today filed its Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) budget recommendation, a $56.1 billion plan that responsibly controls spending growth while investing in education, infrastructure and housing to make Massachusetts more affordable and improve quality of life. "Our Fiscal Year 2025 budget proposal is balanced, responsible and forward-looking. It prot  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Jan. 23, 2024: Governor Maura T. Healey and Secretary of Veterans Services Jon Santiago today issued statements on the passing of Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers, a Westfield, Massachusetts native, who died trying to rescue a teammate in the Arabian Sea. "My deepest sympathies go out to the family, friends and shipmates of Special Operator Chris Chambers, w  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Jan. 23, 2024: Today, Governor Maura Healey and Secretary of the Veterans Services Jon Santiago testified in support of H. 4172, the An Act Honoring, Empowering, and Recognizing our Servicemembers and Veterans (HERO Act), before the Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs. The HERO Act marks the first comprehensive legislative package dedicated to veterans' welfare introduced by   more

CHICOPEE, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- MassDevelopment issued the following news release: MassDevelopment has issued a $6,543,000 tax-exempt bond on behalf of Mental Health Association, Inc. (MHA), which will use proceeds to buy and renovate an approximately 78,378-square-foot building at 350 Memorial Drive in Chicopee where it will relocate its headquarters from Springfield, Mass. and house its mental health programs and residential and support services. The building originally housed the Charles  more

LOWELL, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 -- Middlesex Community College issued the following news release on Jan. 25, 2024: On Tuesday, January 16, Middlesex Community College celebrated the eighth annual National Day of Racial Healing. In partnership with Suffolk University, the virtual event was an opportunity to connect, build relationships and bridge divides. The highlight of the special event was a talk by actor, director and playwright Jacqueline Parker. "I joined the Suffolk University team, whic  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Twelve researchers selected as finalists for 2023-24 MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition to support female entrepreneurs in biotech. * * * By Mary Beth Gallagher, School of Engineering The MIT Faculty Founder Initiative has announced 12 finalists for the 2023-24 MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition. The competition, which is supported by Royalty Pharma, aims to support  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Biologists demonstrate that HIV-1 capsid acts like a Trojan horse to pass viral cargo across the nuclear pore. * * * By Lillian Eden, Department of Biology Retroviruses cannot replicate on their own -- they must insert their genetic code into the DNA of a host and exploit the host cell's resources to make more copies of themselves, furthering infection. Some retroviruses   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Using New York as a test case, the model predicts flooding at the level experienced during Hurricane Sandy will occur roughly every 30 years by the end of this century. * * * By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Coastal cities and communities will face more frequent major hurricanes with climate change in the coming years. To help prepare coastal cities against future storms, MIT sc  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: By Danielle Randall Doughty, Department of Chemistry On a blustery December afternoon, with final exams and winter break on the horizon, the 500 undergraduate students enrolled in Professor Bradley Pentelute's Course 5.111 (Principles of Chemical Science) class were treated to an afternoon at the theater -- a performance of "Blue Man Group" at Boston's Charles Playhouse -- courtesy of Pen  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 23 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: Peter Schiller, professor emeritus in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a member of the MIT faculty since 1964, died on Dec. 23, 2023. He was 92. Born in Berlin to Hungarian parents in 1931, Schiller and his family returned to Budapest in 1934, where they endured World War II; in 1947 he moved to the United States with his father and stepmother. Schiller attended   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following Q&A on Jan. 24, 2024, with Paloma Gonzalez-Rojas, co-founder of Atacama Biomaterials: * * * Atacama Biomaterials, co-founded by Paloma Gonzalez-Rojas SM '15, PhD '21, combines architecture, machine learning, and chemical engineering to create eco-friendly materials. * * * By Adelaide Zollinger, MIT Morningside Academy for Design Atacama Biomaterials is a startup combining architectur  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following Q&A on Jan. 24, 2024, with William Frank, Victor P. Starr Career Development Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences: * * * Geophysicist William Frank discusses how a recent earthquake in Japan relates to an earthquake swarm in the region. * * * By Paige Colley, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences On Jan. 1, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck t  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Researchers demonstrate rapid 3D printing with liquid metal * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News MIT researchers have developed an additive manufacturing technique that can print rapidly with liquid metal, producing large-scale parts like table legs and chair frames in a matter of minutes. Their technique, called liquid metal printing (LMP), involves depositing molten aluminum   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 23 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: By Danna Lorch, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences For a college student, senior Tatum Wilhelm wakes up painfully early -- at 5:15 a.m., to be exact. Five days per week, by 6:20 a.m. sharp, she is already rowing on the Charles River, bursting through the early morning fog. Between majoring in chemical engineering, minoring in anthropology, and working as an undergra  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The findings suggest our galaxy's core may contain less dark matter than previously estimated. * * * By Jennifer Chu, MIT News By clocking the speed of stars throughout the Milky Way galaxy, MIT physicists have found that stars further out in the galactic disk are traveling more slowly than expected compared to stars that are closer to the galaxy's center. The findings   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * PhD student Fatima Husain investigates the co-evolution of life and Earth and works to communicate science to the public. * * * By Olivia Young, Office of Graduate Education Fatima Husain grew up in the heart of the Midwest, surrounded by agriculture. "Every time you left your home, you saw fields of corn and soybeans. And it was really quite beautiful," she says. Durin  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 23 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Although artificial intelligence in health has shown great promise, pressure is mounting for regulators around the world to act, as AI tools demonstrate potentially harmful outcomes. * * * By Alex Ouyang, Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health Before a drug is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it must demonstrate both safety and   more

NEW YORK, Jan. 26 -- Morgan Lewis, a law firm, issued the following news release: Morgan Lewis acted as US counsel to BP plc and its affiliates in restructuring its offshore wind venture with Equinor Wind US. Under the terms of the agreement, BP and Equinor agreed to swap their 50% interests in the two Empire Wind offshore projects situated south of New York City Harbor and in the two Beacon Wind offshore projects situated off the Massachusetts coast. After closing BP will own 100% of the two B  more

SOUTH HADLEY, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- Mount Holyoke College issued the following news: Amanda Mayfield has been appointed as the associate vice president of finance at Mount Holyoke College. Mount Holyoke College has announced the appointment of Amanda Mayfield as associate vice president of finance. She previously served as the associate vice president of finance at Connecticut College. Mayfield brings over 20 years of experience in higher education finance and will start her position in F  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Developed by MIT engineers, the model could be a tool for designers looking to innovate in sneaker design. * * * By Jennifer Chu, MIT News A good shoe can make a huge difference for runners, from career marathoners to couch-to-5K first-timers. But every runner is unique, and a shoe that works for one might trip up another. Outside of trying on a rack of different design  more

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- Worcester Polytechnic Institute issued the following news release: Recognizing that the future of global health lies at the intersection of technology, science, and humanity, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is introducing a master of science (MS) in Global Health. The degree program will prepare students for leadership roles in this growing field by equipping them to turn technical knowledge into innovative solutions that will improve people's health a  more

DUDLEY, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- Nichols College issued the following news on Jan. 24, 2024: Nichols College received a $1 million gift from an alumnus of the school who wishes to remain anonymous. The gift will support the innovative work of Nichols faculty and students in advancing knowledge and the critical data science skills needed for today's workforce. "Nichols College has been at the forefront of preparing graduates for the digital transformation of business through our signature stu  more

SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- Springfield College issued the following news: Springfield College has been recognized as one of the best online colleges in Massachusetts for 2024 by Forbes Advisor. "We are pleased to have our undergraduate online bachelor's degree programs be recognized by Forbes Advisor. At Springfield College, we pride ourselves in the personalized attention that we provide to our students along with our excellent academic programs," said Mary Ann Coughlin, Springfie  more

LOWELL, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- Middlesex Community College issued the following news release: During the Spring 2024 semester, Middlesex Community College has a variety of options to helps teens get early exposure to college and career paths. Through MCC's Community Education & Training division, the College for Teens program allows young students to explore the health and business pathways, as well as sharpen their math and communication skills. "MCC's College for Teens programs provide a   more

SEATTLE, Washington, Jan. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Washington's School of Medicine issued the following news release: Women who had telemedicine access to a trusted primary-care provider and received a prescription for medication abortion described the experience as "easy," "safe" and "convenient," according to research published this week in the Annals of Family Medicine. The qualitative study of 14 people in a Massachusetts health system found that having access to medication abortio  more