CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 12 (TNSres) -- Akamai Technologies, a provider of content delivery network services, issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, announced today that the company will hold a conference call for investors on Thursday, May 9, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. ET. The call will include the company's first quarter 2024 financial results and may include forward-looking financia  more

DARTMOUTH, Massachusetts, April 12 -- The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus issued the following news release: The civil and environmental engineering faculty member recently received her second $500K award from the Environmental Protection Agency. Assistant Professor Nefeli Bompoti joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UMass Dartmouth in the fall of 2023. Since then, she has obtained two $500K grants from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) totaling   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 12 -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued the following news on April 11, 2024: Mayor Michelle Wu today announced that applications are now being accepted for the latest round of the Returning Citizen Support (RCS) Mini Grant. This grant is one of the City's initiatives for Second Chance Month, a national initiative to support the reentry of returning citizens and providing second-chance opportunities for those with criminal records. The RCS grant is a competitive gran  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 11 -- Boston University issued the following news: By Brianne Garrett Monica Larner believes Italian grape growing is a special art. Larner, who lives in Rome, is a certified sommelier and an award-winning reviewer and writer for the Robert Parker Wine Advocate, an influential consumer publication. She has traveled all over Italy for assignments: a vineyard in Compania, where grapes are grown on trees, requiring harvesters to use special ladders for retrieval; Pant  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 12 -- Circle Internet Financial, a financial technology firm, issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: Today, Circle, a global digital financial technology firm and the issuer of USDC, announced new smart contract functionality that would allow holders of the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) to transfer their shares to Circle for USDC. This smart contract provides BUIDL investors with a near-instant, 24/7 BUIDL off-ramp that bri  more

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, April 12 -- DNV, a provider of classification, technical assurance, software and independent expert advisory services, issued the following news on April 11, 2024: DNV, the independent energy expert and assurance provider, today issued a set of recommendations and a timeline to build a fully functional offshore HVDC transmission network to support U.S. offshore wind power goals. As the first phase of a joint industry project (JIP) exploring the feasibility of incorpor  more

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, April 12 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: WORCESTER/SHREWSBURY - The Healey-Driscoll administration is celebrating a $3.7 million award from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the Route 20 and Grafton Street Interchange Project. The project will provide critical relief for areas of Worcester and Shrewsbury that have long been impacted by severe flooding. The grant was awarded under the Promoting Resilient Operations for T  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 12 -- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: Learning technology company HMH today announced that three of its solutions have been honored in EdTech Digest's 2024 EdTech Cool Tool Awards. HMH Read 180 was named the winner in the literacy/reading category. HMH was also named a finalist for two of its integrated solutions - English 3D and HMH Math 180. Presented by EdTech Digest, the EdTech Awards recognize people for outstandin  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 11 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Immunai's founders were researchers at MIT when they launched their company to help predict how patients will respond to new treatments. * * * By Zach Winn, MIT News The human immune system is a network made up of trillions of cells that are constantly circulating throughout the body. The cellular network orchestrates interactions with every organ and tissue to carry out  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 12 -- Liberty Mutual Insurance Group issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: Liberty Mutual Insurance has appointed Amit Khanna Chief Claims & Service Officer, US Retail Markets (USRM), effective March 25. Khanna will oversee the strategic and operational direction of Liberty Mutual's personal lines and small commercial claims, and customer and agent service organizations. In 2023, these teams of more than 10,000 employees processed more than 1.4 millio  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 12 (TNSres) -- Liberty Mutual Insurance Group issued the following news release: Liberty Mutual Insurance today released its 2023 Purpose & Impact Report, outlining the company's progress in advancing customer resilience, enabling sustainable growth, and supporting people and communities. The report, which is an evolution of previously separate Giving and Sustainability Reports, details how Liberty Mutual is acting on its purpose to help people and organizations emb  more

WOBURN, Massachusetts, April 12 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: Today, Governor Maura T. Healey continued her Mass Leads Road Show with a stop at Boston Metal to promote the key climatetech investments included in the bill. Boston Metal is a clean tech innovation company focused on "green steel production" or decarbonizing steel production by using electricity rather than coal. This visit is part of the Governor's Mass Leads Act Road   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 11 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * For two decades, MIT-Mexico has funded student internships and teaching, as well as faculty research collaborations. * * * By Lisa Capone, Office of the Vice Provost for International Activities, MIT Center for International Studies Favianna Colon Irizarry spent last summer at Tecnologico de Monterrey, working alongside Mexican biotechnology researchers to develop a biod  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 11 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * By providing plausible label maps for one medical image, the Tyche machine-learning model could help clinicians and researchers capture crucial information. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News In biomedicine, segmentation involves annotating pixels from an important structure in a medical image, like an organ or cell. Artificial intelligence models can help clinicians by highli  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 11 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * In MIT's 2024 Killian Lecture, chemical engineer Paula Hammond described her groundbreaking work on nanoparticles designed to attack tumor cells. * * * By Anne Trafton, MIT News When Paula Hammond first arrived on MIT's campus as a first-year student in the early 1980s, she wasn't sure if she belonged. In fact, as she told an MIT audience yesterday, she felt like "an imp  more