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State Tipoffs Involving Massachusetts Newsletter for Sunday May 19, 2024 ( 3 items )  

Anthony Hollenberg Named New President of Boston Medical Center
BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 18 -- Boston University issued the following news: By Rich Barlow Anthony Hollenberg, a nationally renowned endocrinologist and physician-in-chief at Boston Medical Center (BMC), as well as the chair of the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine department of medicine, has been named the new president of BMC, Boston University's primary teaching hospital and New England's largest safety net facility, serving disadvantaged patients. The appointment, effective June   more

Healey-Driscoll Administration Announces Approximately $37 Million in Grants to Support Regional Public Transportation
BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 18 -- The Massachusetts Department of Transportation posted the following news release: The Healey-Driscoll Administration is announcing approximately $37 million in grant funding to support regional public transportation. The funding from three grant programs will go to Regional Transit Authorities (RTA), Councils on Aging, and other entities for vehicles, to support fleet electrification, to enhance and expand existing transit services, expand service hours, improve  more

Macalester College: Biology Professor Part of Team Awarded $15 Million NSF Grant to Study Climate Change in the Arctic
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, May 18 (TNSres) -- Macalester College issued the following college news: Biology Professor Mary Heskel is among a group of experts from 14 institutions that received a $15 million award from the National Science Foundation. The Evolving Meta-Ecosystems (EvoME) Institute, which will be led by the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth, Massachusetts, is a new six-year project that will focus on improving scientific and public understanding of how Arctic organisms and e  more