BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 8 -- Nixon Peabody, a law firm, issued the following news release: Nixon Peabody LLP is proud to share that Thomson Reuters has recognized 13 of the firm's attorneys as "Stand-out Lawyers." Honorees have been independently nominated by clients for their exemplary service. Stand-out Lawyers are nominated as part of Thomson Reuters' annual Sharplegal survey of more than 2,000 senior in-house legal counsel globally. Lawyers are recognized for the impact they have on c  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 8 -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued the following news on March 7, 2024: The Mayor's Office of Black Male Advancement (BMA) hosted the inaugural Empowerment Summit 2024 last Friday at Northeastern University's John D. O'Bryant African American Institute. The summit provided space for discussions aimed at fostering empowerment and solutions within the community. "It's an honor to be in this space, with this group, with this community, and thank you to Frank Farrow   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 8 (TNSres) -- Boston University issued the following news: By Joel Brown Boston University researchers have found significant evidence that Lewiston, Maine, mass shooter Robert R. Card II had traumatic brain injuries when he killed 18 people and himself last October. The brain analysis results were released by the Concussion Legacy Foundation with the permission of Card's family, "in an effort to prevent future tragedies." "While I cannot say with certainty that   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 8 -- Boston University School of Public Health issued the following news: Jaimie Gradus, professor of epidemiology, and Patricia Janulewicz Lloyd, associate professor of environmental health, will help assess the potential relationship between exposure to toxic substances experienced during military service and variety of mental health and other conditions. Two SPH faculty have been appointed to serve on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 8 (TNSres) -- Boston University School of Public Health issued the following news: David Felson (SPH'84) and Tuhina Neogi (SPH'09), professors of epidemiology and SPH alums, as well as professors of medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, have received a $46 million award from the National Institute on Aging. The five-year grant will support their work on The Multicenter Osteoarthritis (MOST) Study, which they aim to better understand  more

NORTH BILLERICA, Massachusetts, March 7 -- Curriculum Associates issued the following news release: Curriculum Associates' i-Ready Classroom Mathematics 2024 for Grades K-8 has received a perfect score from EdReports, an independent nonprofit that conducts evidence-based reviews of instructional materials. This designation sets i-Ready Classroom Mathematics 2024 apart as the first Grades K-8 mathematics program to receive a perfect score. EdReports conducts extensive third-party reviews to inc  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 6 -- Goodwin, a law firm, issued the following news release: The Technology team advised Range Energy in the closing of its $23.5 million Series A Preferred Stock financing initial closing. The round was led by Trousdale Labs, with participation from UP.Partners, R7 and Yamaha Motor Ventures. Based in Mountain View, Range Energy accelerates the electrification of commercial transportation with powered trailers for the heavy-duty truck market. The Goodwin team cons  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 6 -- Goodwin, a law firm, issued the following news release: The Private Equity team advised TA Associates (TA) on their significant growth investment in AGA Benefit Solutions (AGA). TA has partnered with AGA's management team who will remain in place and continue to be major shareholders of AGA. Private equity firm Novacap which invested in the business in 2020 out of its inaugural financial services fund, will transition its ownership position as part of the trans  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 8 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on March 7, 2024: Today the Healey-Driscoll administration is launching a new partnership with eight resettlement agencies to expand efforts to connect families living in Emergency Assistance shelters with stable housing and jobs. The funding for this new initiative was included in the supplemental budget passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Maura Healey in December 2023. Resettl  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 8 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT neuroscientists have discovered a circuit that controls vocalization and makes sure that breathing is prioritized over speaking. * * * By Anne Trafton, MIT News MIT researchers have discovered a brain circuit that drives vocalization and ensures that you talk only when you breathe out, and stop talking when you breathe in. The newly discovered circuit controls two a  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 8 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has led a multistate coalition of 18 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the Colorado Supreme Court in support of a transgender woman who was denied service by a Colorado cakeshop after she informed the business that a pink and blue cake that she ordered was expressive of her gender identity. In the amicus brief, filed in the ca  more

HOPKINTON, Massachusetts, March 8 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on March 7, 2024: Today, Governor Maura T. Healey launched her Mass Leads Road Show, during which she will travel to communities across the state to highlight the ways in which her Mass Leads Act will grow the Massachusetts economy, support businesses and attract talent to the state. She visited life sciences companies in Worcester and Hopkinton to focus on her proposed $1 billion, 10-yea  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 8 -- The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection issued the following news release: The Massachusetts Clean Water Trust's (the Trust) Board of Trustees approved $78,249,638 in new low-interest loans and grants at its meeting on March 6, 2024. Below is information on the grants and loans approved at the meeting. The Trust, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), helps communities build or replace water i  more

WELLESLEY HILLS, Massachusetts, March 7 -- Massachusetts Bay Community College issued the following news release: The Healey-Driscoll Administration has awarded MassBay Community College $2,453 in grant funding to purchase Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) for emergency response vehicles. MassBay was one of 80 Massachusetts municipalities, public colleges and universities, and nonprofit organizations to receive this funding to help increase access to this lifesaving equipment during medic  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 8 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management issued the following news release: The MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program announced today that two new organizations -- Northrop Grumman and Stanley Black & Decker -- have become their newest members of its industry partnerships. These additions bring the partner company total to 24, 19 of which are either Fortune 500 or Fortune Global 500. MIT LGO collaborates with the MIT  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 7 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Study shows metal-organic particles can both deliver vaccines and act as an adjuvant to generate a strong immune response at a lower dose. * * * By Anne Trafton, MIT News Many vaccines, including vaccines for hepatitis B and whooping cough, consist of fragments of viral or bacterial proteins. These vaccines often include other molecules called adjuvants, which help to bo  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 8 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management issued the following news release: The MIT Sloan School of Management is launching a new center aimed at providing evidence-based climate policy research to help inform and support local, state, national, and international policymakers. Jump-started by a $25 million investment by MIT Sloan as part of an emerging MIT-wide effort, the MIT Climate Policy Center will engage on a broad set of   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 7 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Stimulating gamma brain waves may protect cancer patients from memory impairment and other cognitive effects of chemotherapy. * * * By Anne Trafton, MIT News Patients undergoing chemotherapy often experience cognitive effects such as memory impairment and difficulty concentrating -- a condition commonly known as "chemo brain." MIT researchers have now shown that a noninv  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 7 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Professor Ernest Fraenkel has decoded fundamental aspects of Huntington's disease and glioblastoma, and is now using computation to better understand amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. * * * By Michaela Jarvis, School of Engineering At a time in which scientific research is increasingly cross-disciplinary, Ernest Fraenkel, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences an  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 8 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Study finds stimulating a key brain rhythm with light and sound increases peptide release from interneurons, driving clearance of an Alzheimer's protein. * * * By David Orenstein, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Studies at MIT and elsewhere are producing mounting evidence that light flickering and sound clicking at the gamma brain rhythm frequency of 40 he  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 8 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Developed by the Self-Assembly Lab, the 4D Knit Dress uses several technologies to create a custom design and a custom fit, while addressing sustainability concerns. * * * By Maria Iacobo and Olivia Mintz, School of Architecture and Planning Until recently, bespoke tailoring -- clothing made to a customer's individual specifications -- was the only way to have garments   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 7 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Faster and more accurate than some alternatives, this approach could be useful for robots that interact with humans or work in tight spaces. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News Before a robot can grab dishes off a shelf to set the table, it must ensure its gripper and arm won't crash into anything and potentially shatter the fine china. As part of its motion planning process,   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 8 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * By enabling models to see the world more like humans do, the work could help improve driver safety and shed light on human behavior. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News Peripheral vision enables humans to see shapes that aren't directly in our line of sight, albeit with less detail. This ability expands our field of vision and can be helpful in many situations, such as detecti  more

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, March 7 -- National Grid, an electricity and natural gas delivery company, issued the following news release: National Grid is once again the regional presenting sponsor for the American Red Cross' Sound the Alarm campaign, which helps save lives by installing free smoke alarms in homes that don't have them, and by educating people about home fire safety. At a March 5 media event officials from National Grid joined those from American Red Cross Western New York region,   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 7 -- Pegasystems, a software company empowering digital transformation, issued the following news release: Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the leading enterprise AI decisioning and workflow automation platform provider, today announced Forrester Research has named Pega a Leader in The Forrester Wave(TM): Customer Service Solutions, Q1 2024 (1). Across all solutions evaluated, Pega earned the top score in the 'current offering' category. In the report, under the  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 8 -- Akamai Technologies, a provider of content delivery network services, issued the following news release on March 7, 2024: Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today announced a partnership with Scaleflex, the first visual experience platform to join the Akamai Qualified Computing Partner Program. Scaleflex and Akamai work together to help provide online brands with an end-to-end digital asset mana  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 8 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Marcos Berrios '06, Christina Birch PhD '15, and Christopher Williams PhD '12, now eligible for spaceflight assignments, encourage MIT students to apply for the next astronaut class. * * * By Sandi Miller, Department of Physics "It's been a wild ride," says Christopher Williams PhD '12, moments after he received his astronaut pin, signifying graduation into the NASA astr  more