CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Professors Matthew Vander Heiden and Fan Wang, along with five MIT alumni, are honored for their outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. * * * The National Academy of Medicine recently announced the election of more than 90 members during its annual meeting, including MIT faculty members Matthew Vander Heiden and Fan Wang, along with five MIT alumni  more

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 -- DNV, a provider of classification, technical assurance, software and independent expert advisory services, issued the following news: DNV is performing due diligence to enable the financing of eight offshore wind projects on the United States' Atlantic Coast. The announcement follows news from DNV's Energy Transition Outlook 2024 report, which forecasts that about 10 GW of fixed offshore wind is set to be installed in the U.S. between 2040 and 2050. While t  more

NEEDHAM, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- International Data Corp., a provider of market intelligence and advisory services, issued the following news release: MILANO, October 24, 2024 -- According to a new forecast from the Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide (https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=IDC_P33198) published by International Data Corporation (IDC), European spending on artificial intelligence (AI) is projected to reach $133 billion by 2028, growing at a compound ann  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The associate director of club sports, intramural sports, and sport camps shares the important role that athletics plays in finding community. * * * Nick Jewell, associate director of club sports, intramural sports, and sport camps for MIT's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) became a recreation professional because of the impact club sport  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: Ropes & Gray is representing Flexential, a leading provider of secure and flexible data center solutions, and GI Partners in connection with a strategic investment in Flexential from Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSIP). This team included private equity partners Brandon Howald, James C. Davis, and Howard Glazer, asset management partner Warren Goodworth, tax partner Ben Rogers, executive compensa  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- G.E. Vernova, an energy company, issued the following news release: LAGOS, Nigeria, October 24, 2024 - GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) today announced that its GridOS orchestration software is deployed in the newly completed Information and Coordination Centre (ICC) in Abomey-Calavi, Benin for the West African Power Pool (WAPP), a groundbreaking initiative aimed at transforming the region's energy landscape. The recently inaugurated ICC will serve as th  more

NEEDHAM, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- International Data Corp., a provider of market intelligence and advisory services, issued the following news release: * * * Apple Returns to Top 5 Smartphone Companies * * * BEIJING and NEEDHAM, Mass. - According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker (https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=IDC_P8397), China smartphone shipments grew 3.2% year over year (YoY) to 68.8 million un  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release on Oct. 24, 2024: * * * 24 Attorneys General Call on Ninth Circuit to Allow Emergency Abortion Care in Idaho * * * Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced today that she has joined a coalition of 24 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in U.S. v. Idaho to protect access to emergency abortion care in Idaho. The brief urges the United States Court of Appeals for   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * In parallel, MIT and Universidad Del Valle de Guatemala students seek to advance local innovation by and for Guatemalan communities. * * * In a first for both universities, MIT undergraduates are engaged in research projects at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), while MIT scholars are collaborating with UVG undergraduates on in-depth field studies in Guatemala.   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Oct. 23, 2024: * * * The newly identified pathways appear to relay emotional information that helps to shape the motivation to take action. * * * Within the human brain, movement is coordinated by a brain region called the striatum, which sends instructions to motor neurons in the brain. Those instructions are conveyed by two pathways, one that initiates movement ("go") and o  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Oct. 22, 2024: * * * In a lecture at MIT, Professor Adam Berinsky surveyed one of the thorniest ongoing problems in modern politics. * * * Political misinformation is a hard problem. False statements pervade contemporary politics, sowing division and distrust, and making it harder for society to operate on the basis of fact and law. Even in matters of health and medicine, whe  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Oct. 23, 2024: * * * System observed 8,000 light-years away may be the first direct evidence of "gentle" black hole formation. * * * Many black holes detected to date appear to be part of a pair. These binary systems comprise a black hole and a secondary object -- such as a star, a much denser neutron star, or another black hole -- that spiral around each other, drawn together  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The discovery of pyrene derivatives in a distant interstellar cloud may help to reveal how our own solar system formed. * * * A team led by researchers at MIT has discovered that a distant interstellar cloud contains an abundance of pyrene, a type of large, carbon-containing molecule known as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH). The discovery of pyrene in this far-off  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Oct. 23, 2024: * * * Associate professor of architecture Brandon Clifford scrutinizes ancient stone structures, searching for ideas that can revitalize our building practices. * * * Used to be, societies would recycle building materials. In Rome, St. Peter's Basilica was made from the stones of the Colosseum. The Inca reused stones from one project to the next. Today we rarely  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Mesenchymal stromal cells are an attractive alternative to current costly, time-intensive treatments. * * * Researchers from the Critical Analytics for Manufacturing Personalized-Medicine (CAMP) interdisciplinary research group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, alongside collaborators from the Nationa  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Experts in energy systems modeling and fusion technology explore the future role of fusion at various costs and carbon constraints. * * * For many decades, fusion has been touted as the ultimate source of abundant, clean electricity. Now, as the world faces the need to reduce carbon emissions to prevent catastrophic climate change, making commercial fusion power a reality   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The late-in-life health care option reduces patient costs, even as for-profit organizations expand in the sector. * * * Hospice care aims to provide a health care alternative for people nearing the end of life by sparing them unwanted medical procedures and focusing on the patient's comfort. A new study co-authored by MIT scholars shows hospice also has a clear fiscal bene  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * As climate change accelerates sea-level rise and intensifies storms, marsh-fronted seawalls can provide an economical coastal defense, MIT engineers report. * * * Images of coastal houses being carried off into the sea due to eroding coastlines and powerful storm surges are becoming more commonplace as climate change brings a rising sea level coupled with more powerful sto  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 -- Nutter, a law firm, issued the following news release: Nutter advised Best Day Brewing, the #1 fastest-growing, non-alcoholic craft beer brands in the United States, on its latest funding round. The investment will expand the product pipeline of non-alcoholic beer and further scale distribution nationwide to meet increased demand. The Nutter team was led by Portia Keady and included Will Bernat, Ellie Myers, Tim Rennie, Nichole Shustack, and Scott Masaitis. Si  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- Pegasystems, a software company empowering digital transformation, issued the following news release on Oct. 24, 2024: Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the leading enterprise AI decisioning and workflow automation platform provider, today announced Gartner Research has recognized Pega as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms (LCAPs) (1). Gartner reviewed 13 low-code application platforms based on the evaluation  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 -- G.E. Vernova, an energy company, issued the following news release: * * * * GE Vernova provided three 9HA.02 heavy duty gas turbines for Guangdong Energy Group Co., Ltd.'s Dongguan Ningzhou power plant, one of the largest gas power plants in China * * * GUANGDONG PROVINCE, CHINA (October 24, 2024) - On the heels of GE Vernova's announcement of Chinese state-owned power utility Guandong Energy Group Co.,Ltd Huizhou power plant achieving a successful start  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) has named Ropes & Gray the winner of the 2024 Pro Bono Team of the Year award for the firm's work to help undocumented youth apply for legal status in the United States in two difficult cases. Since April 2023, a team has worked with three siblings from Guatemala to obtain special immigrant juvenile status as they wait to become eligible for permanent legal resident status. T  more