BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: Ropes & Gray represented American Industrial Partners in its sale of Virtek Vision International to AMETEK (NYSE:AME), a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions. Virtek will become part of AMETEK's Electronic Instruments Group, a leader in advanced analytical, monitoring, testing, calibrating and display instrumentation. The sale was announced in an Oct. 31 press release. Financial terms w  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Exploring biodiversity, linguistic diversity, and collective AI-generated poetry, her work will be honored with a $100K prize, artist residency, and public lecture at MIT in spring 2025. * * * BY Leah Talatinian, Arts at MIT Artist and designer Es Devlin is the recipient of the 2025 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. The $100,000 prize, to be awarded at a gala in h  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Researchers in the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism are building an open data repository to advance research on racial inequity in domains like policing, housing, and health care. * * * By Scott Murray, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society At the turn of the 20th century, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote about the conditions and culture of Black people in Philadelphia,  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 -- Foley Hoag, a law firm, issued the following news: Foley Hoag LLP again filed two amicus briefs in a case brought by the United States to block Idaho's anti-abortion law, in an ongoing effort to protect human rights and public health in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. In the consolidated cases against the state of Idaho and its legislature now pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Foley Hoag filed one brief on beha  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 -- G.E. Vernova, an energy company, issued the following news release: * * * * First of this kind of FEED studies accomplished in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by GE Vernova focused on three power plants powered by GE Vernova 7E and 7F gas turbines * The FEED studies targeted up to 32 percent by volume hydrogen blending with natural gas and identified potential modifications to the power generation assets * Carbon Capture assessment suggests that the use of an   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health issued the following news release: Medicare Advantage (MA) plans receive billions of federal dollars for enrolling veterans who receive no Medicare services, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study highlights the growing prevalence of high-veteran MA plans--defined as plans where 20% or more of enrollees are veterans--and their implications for veteran ca  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Each $7,500 grant allows high schoolers to solve real-world problems with technological solutions. * * * By Brian Lombardo, Lemelson-MIT Program The Lemelson-MIT Program has announced the 2024-25 InvenTeams -- eight teams of high school students, teachers, and mentors from across the country. Each team will each receive $7,500 in grant funding and year-long support to build a techn  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 -- Mintz, a law firm, issued the following news release: Mintz represented the US Department of Energy (DoE)'s Loan Programs Office (LPO) in its conditional commitment for a loan guarantee of up to $1.44 billion Montana Renewables, LLC (Montana Renewables, or MRL). Montana Renewables is an unrestricted subsidiary of Calumet (NASDAQ: CLMT). The loan guarantee, if finalized, will help finance the expansion of a renewable fuels facility in Great Falls, Montana, that w  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The MIT Human Insight Collaborative will elevate the human-centered disciplines and unite the Institute's top scholars to help solve the world's biggest challenges. * * * By Michael Brindley, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences A new MIT initiative aims to elevate human-centered research and teaching, and bring together scholars in the humanities, arts, and soc  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Event at MIT featured an array of national and international speakers including a Nobel laureate, leaders in industry, and in entertainment. * * * By Laboratory for Nuclear Science Bridging Talents and Opportunities (BTO) held its second annual forum at the Stratton Student Center at MIT Oct. 11-12. The two-day event gathered over 500 participants, including high school students an  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Researchers show that even the best-performing large language models don't form a true model of the world and its rules, and can thus fail unexpectedly on similar tasks. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News Large language models can do impressive things, like write poetry or generate viable computer programs, even though these models are trained to predict words that come next in  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * As he invents programmable materials and self-organizing systems, Skylar Tibbits is pushing design boundaries while also solving real-world problems. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News While working as a lecturer in MIT's Department of Architecture, Skylar Tibbits SM '10 was also building art installations in galleries all over the world. Most of these installations featured com  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Nov. 4, 2024: * * * Researchers are leveraging quantum mechanical properties to overcome the limits of silicon semiconductor technology. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News Silicon transistors, which are used to amplify and switch signals, are a critical component in most electronic devices, from smartphones to automobiles. But silicon semiconductor technology is held back by a funda  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The MIT Energy Initiative and a consortium of Taiwanese companies are exploring how Taiwan can secure its energy future as the world transitions away from fossil fuels. * * * By Calvin Hennick, MIT Energy Initiative The operations of Taiwan's electronics, manufacturing, and financial firms vary widely, but their leaders all have at least one thing in common: They recognize  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following Q&A on Nov. 4, 2024: * * * MIT pK-12 at Open Learning co-created a secondary school learning architecture that's available for adoption and adaptation by educational practitioners worldwide. * * * By Katherine Ouellette, MIT Open Learning * * * As educators are challenged to balance student learning and well-being with planning authentic and relevant course materials, MIT pK-12 at Open Learni  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 -- Pegasystems, a software company empowering digital transformation, issued the following news release on Nov. 4, 2024: Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the leading enterprise AI decisioning and workflow automation platform provider, today announced that Ken Stillwell, COO and CFO, Pega, will be presenting at the following upcoming investor conference: RBC Capital Markets Technology, Internet, Media & Telecommunications Conference. The in-person Pega presenta  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: Ropes & Gray has advised CVC Capital Partners and its portfolio company System C Healthcare (System C) on the acquisition of CIS Oncology, a UK company which specialises in the creation and installation of innovative chemotherapy prescribing systems. The deal will enhance System C's medicines management capabilities and reinforce its commitment to connecting care. The Ropes & Gray team was led by private e  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: In a recent Law360 article, Ropes & Gray attorneys analyzed a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that denied rehearing en banc in an Alien Tort Statute (ATS) case, Doe v. Cisco. The case has been closely watched for its implications on the ATS. The article analyzes the original opinion, denial of rehearing, potential outcomes if the case goes to the U.S. Supreme Court, and b  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 5 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: Global law firm Ropes & Gray announced today that it has further strengthened its award-winning antitrust practice with the addition of Zak Goodwin as a partner based in the firm's Boston office. The move is a homecoming for Zak who was most recently antitrust counsel to a Fortune 500 life sciences company and previously a lawyer at Ropes & Gray. Zak returns to the firm from Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. wh  more