BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 10 -- Boston University issued the following news: By Amy Laskowski For the last 12 weeks, during the lull between the lunch and dinner shifts at Warren Towers, BU Dining Services employee Kerrine Tang has been working hard to improve her English. Tang, a native Cantonese speaker from Hong Kong and a 16-year Dining Services employee, enrolled in the relatively new BU Center for English Language & Orientation Programs (CELOP) course English for Dining Services. The p  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 11 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on May 10, 2024: Today, Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll and Housing and Livable Communities Secretary Ed Augustus joined Boston Housing Authority Executive Director Kenzie Bok, Beacon Communities and Winn Companies to tour two South Boston public housing properties that showcase the before-and-after impact of public housing rehabilitation. Public housing developments at Mary Ellen McCormack   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 11 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell's Office has distributed $1.1 million to 12 organizations as part of the Office's Residential Energy Assistance Grant (REAG) program. REAG is funded through settlement agreements the AGO reached with National Grid and the Berkshire Gas Company. Over the last year, Massachusetts residents have faced record high utility bills. Approximately   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 10 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT has been a world leader in supply chain management education and research for more than five decades. * * * By Benjy Kantor, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics MIT's Supply Chain Management (SCM) Master's Program, housed within the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) at the Institute's School of Engineering, has been named top master's program f  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 10 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * A new algorithm learns to squish, bend, or stretch a robot's entire body to accomplish diverse tasks like avoiding obstacles or retrieving items. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News Imagine a slime-like robot that can seamlessly change its shape to squeeze through narrow spaces, which could be deployed inside the human body to remove an unwanted item. While such a robot does n  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 10 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: By Danna Lorch, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Senior Grace McMillan grew up in western New York state in an all-woman intergenerational home. In the 1980s, her grandmother and mother defected from the USSR and came to the United States as refugees. They were the only Ukrainian family in their semi-rural town. "My mom would tell me stories about how tough things were whe  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 10 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Ashutosh Kumar, a materials science and engineering PhD student and MathWorks Fellow, applies his eclectic skills to studying the relationship between bacteria and cancer. * * * By Michaela Jarvis, School of Engineering Ashutosh Kumar is a classically trained materials engineer. Having grown up with a passion for making things, he has explored steel design and studied str  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 10 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * A microneedle patch that delivers immune-regulating molecules can teach T cells not to attack hair follicles, helping hair to regrow. * * * By Anne Trafton, MIT News Researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School have developed a potential new treatment for alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder that causes hair loss and affects people of a  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 10 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The results suggest that climate may influence seismic activity. * * * By Jennifer Chu, MIT News When scientists look for an earthquake's cause, their search often starts underground. As centuries of seismic studies have made clear, it's the collision of tectonic plates and the movement of subsurface faults and fissures that primarily trigger a temblor. But MIT scientis  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 10 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The new technique could enable detailed studies of how brain cells develop and communicate with each other. * * * By Anne Trafton, MIT News Scientists often label cells with proteins that glow, allowing them to track the growth of a tumor, or measure changes in gene expression that occur as cells differentiate. While this technique works well in cells and some tissues of  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 10 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Remembering the research contributions of a nuclear engineering expert and passionate teacher. * * * By Taylor Tracy, Nuclear Reactor Lab David Lanning, MIT professor emeritus of nuclear science and engineering and a key contributor to the MIT Reactor project, passed away on April 26 at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts, at the age of 96. Born in Baker, Oreg  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 11 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: Ropes & Gray represented Novavax Inc., in a co-exclusive licensing agreement with French pharmaceutical company Sanofi to sell Novavax COVID-19 vaccine and collaboration to create a combined global COVID-19 and influenza shot. Sanofi is also taking an equity stake of less than five percent in Novavax. The transaction was announced on May 10. Under the agreement, Novavax will receive an upfront payment of $5  more

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, May 11 -- Worcester Polytechnic Institute issued the following news release: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) celebrated the achievements of the Class of 2024, including 1,169 undergraduates, 788 master's degrees, and 69 doctoral degrees. Commencement ceremonies were held May 9 and 10 at the DCU Center, and on Wednesday, WPI hosted the Commissioning Ceremony for the Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts' Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). Und  more