BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 13 -- The Berkshire Bank issued the following news release: Berkshire Bank is pleased to announce Tracy Sicbaldi has joined the bank as senior vice president, government and municipal sales officer. In this role, Sicbaldi will be responsible for managing and expanding Berkshire's government banking relationships in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont. Sicbaldi has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry with special expertise in cash m  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 13 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: The Healey-Driscoll administration is celebrating that the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) have won nearly $1 billion in federal funding for the replacement of the Cape Cod bridges. The funding is from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's Bridge Investment Program (BIP). This brings the total amount of federal funding secured for t  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 13 (TNSres) -- Boston University School of Public Health issued the following news: * * * A new study suggests that reducing systolic blood pressure below the clinically safe threshold of 120 mmHg over time may produce slight health-protective benefits against late-life dementia and help reduce racial and ethnic disparities in both hypertension and hypertension control. * * * By Jillian McKoy Hypertension is one of the most modifiable risk factors for dementia, b  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 13 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office (AGO) has joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief urging a federal court to reject a challenge to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Discriminatory Effects Rule. Under the Fair Housing Act, the rule holds insurers and other parties liable for housing practices that may appear neutral   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 13 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Members of the MIT community, supporters, and guests commemorate the opening of the new college headquarters. * * * By Terri Park, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing recently marked a significant milestone as it celebrated the completion and inauguration of its new building on Vassar Street with a dedication ceremony.   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 13 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * New CSAIL research highlights how LLMs excel in familiar scenarios but struggle in novel ones, questioning their true reasoning abilities versus reliance on memorization. * * * By Rachel Gordon, MIT CSAIL When it comes to artificial intelligence, appearances can be deceiving. The mystery surrounding the inner workings of large language models (LLMs) stems from their vast  more

WATERTOWN, Massachusetts, July 13 -- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a provider of transportation planning, engineering, design, land development and environmental services, issued the following news on July 12, 2024: BOSTON, Massachusetts -- VHB thought leaders presented at the Fourth Transportation Research Board (TRB) International Conference on Access Management from June 24-26 in Boston. This event spotlighted practitioner-ready techniques and academic work on the interaction between transpo  more