BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued the following news on March 28, 2024: Mayor Michelle Wu announced she will file a home rule petition that would protect residential property owners from a potentially dramatic increase in their property taxes due to declining commercial property values. The proposal would allow the City to lessen increases in residential property tax bills caused by declining commercial values by temporarily shifting more of the property tax lev  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 28 (TNSres) -- Boston University issued the following news: By Andrew Thurston The clear, swirling lines give some hint at the supermassive black hole's power: a spiraling magnetic field helping haul in just about anything that sits nearby. It's the first time scientists have captured an image of the magnetic fields coiling around Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, a giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way with a mass four million times that of the sun. The image  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 28 -- Boston University issued the following Q&A on March 27, 2024, with Douglas Holmes, associate vice president and executive editor: * * * When you teach a college course that's a mechanical engineering advanced elective called ME309-Structural Mechanics, the shocking collapse of a 47-year-old bridge makes for some pretty interesting classroom discussion. That was the case this week for Douglas Holmes, a College of Engineering associate professor of mechanics a  more

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Clark University issued the following news: Clark University is again home to one of the world's top-ranked game design programs, according to The Princeton Review. Clark's undergraduate program, offered through the Becker School of Design & Technology, is ranked No. 3 in Princeton Review's Top 50 Schools for Game Design nationwide and beyond, while the master of fine arts program was No. 7 on the list of Top 25 Graduate Schools for Game Design. Both the   more

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Clark University issued the following news: By Meredith Woodward King Clark University's School of Professional Studies (SPS) has launched a two-year, low-residency master of fine arts (MFA) in visual arts, providing artists with the opportunity to study on its Worcester campus and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), the largest contemporary museum in the United States. The program begins this June on Clark's campus in Worcester.   more

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Clark University issued the following news on March 28, 2024: President David Fithian announced Wednesday that Clark University will receive a $10 million gift from University Trustee and philanthropist Vickie Riccardo and her two daughters, Jocelyn Spencer and Alyssa Spencer '17, to begin the process of establishing the School of Climate, Environment, and Society, first by recruiting a dean to lead it. The School of Climate, Environment, and Society is ex  more

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Clark University issued the following news: By Jim Keogh The disturbing history of antisemitism, its troubling contemporary manifestations, and how lessons of the past can inform strategies for the future were all brought into focus at a March 25 panel convened by the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons. Moderated by Thomas Kuhne, director of the Strassler Center and Strassler Chair in the Study of Hol  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 29 (TNSres) -- Foley Hoag, a law firm, issued the following news: Foley Hoag LLP partner Creighton Page has been elected as a Fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel (ACCC). The ACCC is a national organization comprised of over 400 preeminent lawyers involved in coverage and extracontractual matters, with Fellows representing both policyholders and insurers and Honorary members from academia. The College is focused on the creative, ethical, and efficie  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 29 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of today a coalition of 19 attorneys general, today filed an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts supporting a motion to vacate a 2020 federal rule that strips nondiscrimination protections from the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In the brief (https://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/News-Room/Current-News/  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 29 -- The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority issued the following news on March 28, 2024: Building upon the Healey-Driscoll Administration's FY24 budget that includes $5 million for the MBTA to develop a low-income fares program, the MBTA today announced that the MBTA Board of Directors has unanimously approved the MBTA's plan to implement a reduced fares program for riders with low-income. This program, which has been a topic of research and planning by the  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 29 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: The Healey-Driscoll Administration today moved to address air quality issues in or near environmental justice areas by announcing amendments to state air pollution regulations. The changes require certain facilities seeking air emissions permits in or near communities with environmental justice populations to conduct a cumulative impact analys  more

LOWELL, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: Governor Maura T. Healey today announced a major milestone in a transformative project that will bring new housing, economic development, technology jobs and workforce development to downtown Lowell. The research non-profit, Draper Laboratory (Draper) will become an anchor tenant in the Lowell Innovation Network Corridor (LINC), a transformative public-private partnership   more

LOWELL, Massachusetts, March 29 -- 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

WESTON, Massachusetts, March 28 (TNSres) -- Regis College issued the following news: Obesity continues to endure as a public health threat. Corrine Chomixzewski, PA-C MSHI, physician assistant, Newton-Wellesley Hospital Center for Weight Loss Surgery, shared that obesity is a major health problem that affects 25% of the industrial world. She went on to share the statistic that "74% of Americans are overweight, 42% of Americans are obese, almost 20% of American children are obese from ages two t  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news on March 28, 2024: Ropes & Gray represented Xilio Therapeutics, Inc., in an exclusive global license agreement with Gilead Sciences to develop and commercialize Xilio's tumor-activated IL-12 program, XTX301. The transaction was announced on March 28. Xilio Therapeutics is using its proprietary tumor-activation platform to build a pipeline of novel, tumor-activated molecules, including antibodies, cytokines  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: Health care litigation partner Stephanie Webster was spotlighted in the National Women's Law Center Leadership Advisory Committee (LAC) March Newsletter. "The LAC allows me to leverage my legal expertise in areas I am deeply passionate about. I am currently working on a pro bono project with NWLC and proud to include my colleagues in the opportunity," said Stephanie. Stephanie recently worked with NWLC a  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: Many investors are eyeing fiber and broadband assets and Ropes & Gray private equity partners expect digital infrastructure M&A activity to pick up in the next year. In a recent Fierce Telecom article, infrastructure partners Taylor Hart and Brandon Howald shared their outlook. "To some extent, the deal environment in this space has been much better than the broader M&A market in the last couple of years   more