CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 18 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on March 17, 2025: * * * Three economists with MIT ties win BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award Professor Emeritus Olivier Blanchard PhD '77, Jordi Gali PhD '89, and Michael Woodford PhD '83 are honored for work on macroeconomic analysis and policy. Olivier Blanchard PhD '77, the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics Emeritus, has been named a winner of the 2025 BBVA Foundation  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 17 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: * * * AG Campbell Urges Trump Administration To Oppose Changes To New Passport Application Rule Harming Transgender Individuals BOSTON -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell today co-led a coalition of 12 attorneys general in submitting a comment letter to the U.S. Department of State opposing proposed changes to the passport application process that would pr  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 17 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Governor Healey Visits Boston Children's Hospital, Highlights Harm Caused by Cuts to NIH Funding, Medicaid Boston -- Today, Governor Maura Healey and First Lady Joanna Lydgate visited Boston Children's Hospital, a world leader in pediatric health care, to highlight how the Trump Administration's cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and Congressional Republicans' propo  more

FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts, March 18 -- Ameresco, a cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, issued the following news release: * * * HSGS-Ameresco LLC Celebrates Completion of $10.9M Water Resiliency Microgrid Project at White Sands Missile Range Hannah Solar Government Services and Ameresco Completed Innovative Microgrid System Through Joint Venture FRAMINGHAM, MA - March 17, 2025 - Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE: AMRC), a leading energy solutions provider special  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 17 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * In Law360, Tom Danielski Discusses 2025 Biotechnology IPO Outlook In a Law360 article, capital markets partner Tom Danielski discussed the outlook for biotechnology initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2025. Tom expects biotech IPOs to be slower as a result of market uncertainty and that companies are in a "wait-and-see mode" for the next few months. He anticipates that by   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 17 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Goodwin, a law firm, issued the following news release: * * * Maxion Therapeutics Raises $72 million in Series A Round The London & Cambridge Life Sciences team advised Maxion Therapeutics on their $72 million Series A round. The round was led by General Catalyst with additional investment from new investors, British Patient Capital, Solasta Ventures and Eli Lilly and Company and supported by existing investors LifeArc Ventures, Mono  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 18 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on March 17, 2025: * * * Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots MIT engineers developed a way to grow artificial tissues that look and act like their natural counterparts. By Jennifer Chu, MIT News We move thanks to coordination among many skeletal muscle fibers, all twitching and pulling in sync. While some muscles align in one direction  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 18 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on March 17, 2025: * * * Dive into the "almost magical" potential of photonic crystals In MIT's 2025 Killian Lecture, physicist John Joannopoulos recounts highlights from a career at the vanguard of photonics research and innovation. By Jennifer Chu, MIT News When you're challenging a century-old assumption, you're bound to meet a bit of resistance. That's exactly what John Joannopoulo  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 18 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * New platform lets anyone rapidly prototype large, sturdy interactive structures The system uses reconfigurable electromechanical building blocks to create structural electronics. By Adam Zewe, MIT News Prototyping large structures with integrated electronics, like a chair that can monitor someone's sitting posture, is typically a laborious and wasteful process. One might need to  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 18 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management issued the following news release: * * * New MIT Sloan research suggests that AI is more likely to complement, not replace, human workers CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 17, 2025 -- While much public discourse centers on concerns of advanced technologies substituting for and displacing human workers, new research from the MIT Sloan School of Management presents a different perspective -- moving b  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 18 -- Pegasystems, a software company empowering digital transformation, issued the following news release: * * * Rabobank, Unilever, and Verizon to Keynote at PegaWorld 2025 Industry leaders to share how they leverage Pega's AI technology to transform legacy systems and become more autonomous enterprises WALTHAM, Mass. - March 17, 2025 - Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), The Enterprise Transformation Company, today announced keynote speakers for PegaWorld, Pe  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 17 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Ropes & Gray Represents Sanofi Ventures in Investment in Curevo's $110 Million Series B Financing Ropes & Gray represented Sanofi Ventures in its investment in Curevo Vaccine's $110 million Series B financing. Curevo is a privately-held clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing varicella zoster virus (VZV) vaccines The Ropes & Gray team included venture  more