BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 22 -- Boston University School of Public Health issued the following news: * * * Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total freeze in US foreign aid funding and programming. March 21, 2025 By Jillian McKoy Over the last two months, the Trump administra  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 18 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * David Schmittlein, influential dean who brought MIT Sloan into its own, dies at 69 In his 17 years as dean, Schmittlein led the transformation of MIT Sloan into a management school uniquely positioned for the future and "the best version of its distinctive self." By Amy MacMillan Bankson | MIT Sloan School of Management David Schmittlein, an MIT professor of marketing and the MI  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 21 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processors MIT researchers developed a photon-shuttling "interconnect" that can facilitate remote entanglement, a key step toward a practical quantum computer. By Adam Zewe | MIT News Quantum computers have the potential to solve complex problems that would be impossible for the most powerful classical supercomputer to cr  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 21 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Professor Emeritus Lee Grodzins, pioneer in nuclear physics, dies at 98 An MIT faculty member for 40 years, Grodzins performed groundbreaking studies of the weak interaction, led in detection technology, and co-founded the Union of Concerned Scientists. By Sandi Miller | Department of Physics Nuclear physicist and MIT Professor Emeritus Lee Grodzins died on March 6 at his home i  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 18 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * "An AI future that honors dignity for everyone" As artificial intelligence develops, we must ask vital questions about ourselves and our society, Ben Vinson III contends in the 2025 Compton Lecture. By Peter Dizikes | MIT News Ben Vinson III, president of Howard University, made a compelling call for artificial intelligence to be "developed with wisdom," as he delivered MIT's an  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 17 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * 3D printing approach strings together dynamic objects for you "Xstrings" method enables users to produce cable-driven objects, automatically assembling bionic robots, sculptures, and dynamic fashion designs. By Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL It's difficult to build devices that replicate the fluid, precise motion of humans, but that might change if we could pull a few (literal) strings  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 21 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approaches Researchers fuse the best of two popular methods to create an image generator that uses less energy and can run locally on a laptop or smartphone. By Adam Zewe | MIT News The ability to generate high-quality images quickly is crucial for producing realistic simulated environments that can be used to t  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 21 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * At the core of problem-solving Stuart Levine '97, director of MIT's BioMicro Center, keeps departmental researchers at the forefront of systems biology. By Samantha Edelen | Department of Biology As director of the MIT BioMicro Center (BMC), Stuart Levine '97 wholeheartedly embraces the variety of challenges he tackles each day. One of over 50 core facilities providing shared re  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 21 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Drawing inspiration from ancient chemical reactions By studying cellular enzymes that perform difficult reactions, MIT chemist Dan Suess hopes to find new solutions to global energy challenges. By Anne Trafton | MIT News To help find solutions to the planet's climate crisis, MIT Associate Professor Daniel Suess is looking to Earth's ancient past. Early in the evolution of life,  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 21 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * SeaPerch: A robot with a mission Launched by MIT Sea Grant, SeaPerch and SeaPerch II have had a big impact on young learners interested in ocean science and engineering. Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering The SeaPerch underwater robot is a popular educational tool for students in grades 5 to 12. Building and piloting SeaPerch, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), in  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 21 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * A software platform streamlines emergency response First responders worldwide adopt Lincoln Laboratory's Next-Generation Incident Command System for enhanced situational awareness and coordination during emergencies. By Ariana Tantillo | MIT Lincoln Laboratory Wildfires set acres ablaze. Earthquakes decimate towns into rubble. People go missing in mountains and bodies of water.   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 21 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin A new study finds natural and invented languages elicit similar responses in the brain's language-processing network. By Anne Trafton | MIT News Within the human brain, a network of regions has evolved to process language. These regions are consistently activated whenever people listen to their native lan  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 22 -- Pegasystems, a software company empowering digital transformation, issued the following news release: * * * Pega Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend for Second Quarter of 2025 WALTHAM, Mass. - March 21, 2025 - Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), The Enterprise Transformation Company, today announced a quarterly cash dividend of $0.03 per share, maintaining the company's current dividend program. The Q2 2025 dividend will be paid on April 15, 2025, to sharehold  more

WESTON, Massachusetts, March 22 -- Regis College issued the following news: * * * Regis To Host Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Tracy Kidder Pulitzer Prize-winning author and speaker Tracy Kidder, will be the second keynote speaker of Regis College's Elliott Lecture Liberal Arts Series, the university announced. Regis will host Kidder at the Fine Arts Center on April 16, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., with a question-and-answer session and reception to follow his keynote address. An award-winning narra  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 21 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Security scheme could protect sensitive data during cloud computation MIT researchers crafted a new approach that could allow anyone to run operations on encrypted data without decrypting it first. By Adam Zewe | MIT News A hospital that wants to use a cloud computing service to perform artificial intelligence data analysis on sensitive patient records needs a guarantee those dat  more

NEEDHAM, Massachusetts, March 22 -- International Data Corp., a provider of market intelligence and advisory services, issued the following news release: * * * Worldwide Security Spending to Increase by 12.2% in 2025 as Global Cyberthreats Rise, Says IDC Milan, March 21, 2025 -- According to the latest forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Security Spending Guide, global security spending is expected to grow by 12.2% year on year in 2025. The increasing complexity a  more