BEDFORD, Massachusetts, April 29 [Category: BizConsulting] -- MITRE, a company that advances national security and serve the public interest as an independent adviser, posted the following news release: * * * 10th Annual MITRE eCTF Competition Cultivates Future Cybersecurity Leaders McLean, Va., and Bedford, Mass., April 29, 2025 - At an award celebration at Tufts University, MITRE honored the winners, participants, and sponsors of its 2025 Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) Competition, (link  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 29 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Always looking to home For Mingmar Sherpa, a senior research support associate in the Martin Lab in the Department of Biology, community is more than just his colleagues in the lab, where he studies how mechanical forces affect cell division timing during embryogenesis. On his long and winding path to MIT, he never left behind the people he grew up among in Nepal. Sherpa has been d  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 29 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * At the Venice Biennale, design through flexible thinking When the Venice Biennale's 19th International Architecture Exhibition launches on May 10, its guiding theme will be applying nimble, flexible intelligence to a demanding world -- an ongoing focus of its curator, MIT faculty member Carlo Ratti. The Biennale is the world's most renowned exhibition of its kind, an internationa  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 30 -- Boston University issued the following news: * * * YouTube Turns 20--How Have Its 20 Billion Videos Changed Us? BU faculty experts: the social media platform has impacted our mental health, helped small businesses, artists, and musicians, birthed a do-it-yourself generation, and exposed us to dangerous misinformation By Doug Most What started with a grainy, 19-second video from the San Diego Zoo on April 23, 2005, has transformed everyday life--in good wa  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 30 -- Circle Internet Financial, a financial technology firm, issued the following news release: * * * Circle Secures In-Principle Regulatory Approval from ADGM's FSRA Milestone positions the company to deepen its regional presence and scale its partnerships across the MEA financial ecosystem. ABU DHABI, UAE -- April 29, 2025 -- Circle Internet Group, Inc., a global financial technology company and stablecoin market leader, today announced it has received In-Prin  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 29 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Exploring new frontiers in mineral extraction The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules." Elsewhere, along active and inactive hydrothermal vents and the deep ocean's ridges, volcanic arcs, and tectonic plate boundaries, and on the flanks of seamounts, lie other types of mineral-rich deposits contain  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 30 -- Hines, a real estate investment manager, issued the following news release on April 29, 2025: * * * Hines and Healthpeak Announce a Strategic Partnership on the Cambridge Point Mixed-Use Development (BOSTON) -- Hines, a global real estate investment manager, and Healthpeak Properties, Inc. (NYSE: DOC), a leading owner, operator, and developer of real estate for healthcare discovery and delivery, announced today a long-term partnership to develop the residential com  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 29 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use Newly published results of a randomized, controlled clinical trial in Japan among more than 170 children aged 1 to 6 who underwent surgery show that by using electroencephalogram (EEG) readings of brain waves to monitor unconsciousness, an anesthesiologist can significantly reduce the amount of the anesthesia ad  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 29 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Lighting up biology's basement lab For more than 30 years, Course 7 (Biology) students have descended to the expansive, windowless basement of Building 68 to learn practical skills that are the centerpiece of undergraduate biology education at the Institute. The lines of benches and cabinets of supplies that make up the underground MIT Biology Teaching Lab could easily feel dark an  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 28 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Merging design and computer science in creative ways The speed with which new technologies hit the market is nothing compared to the speed with which talented researchers find creative ways to use them, train them, even turn them into things we can't live without. One such researcher is MIT MAD Fellow Alexander Htet Kyaw, a graduate student pursuing dual master's degrees in archite  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 30 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management issued the following news release: * * * Beyond Silicon Valley: How Tapping Into Innovation Ecosystems Drives Organizational Competitive Advantage A new book by MIT Sloan faculty highlights the crucial role of geographic innovation hubs and offers a strategic roadmap for engagement. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 29, 2025 - Leaders in large organizations face continuous pressure to innovate,  more

BEDFORD, Massachusetts, April 29 [Category: BizConsulting] -- MITRE, a company that advances national security and serve the public interest as an independent adviser, posted the following news release: * * * MITRE's Breaking Barriers Summit to Craft Roadmap for a Transformative Defense Acquisition Ecosystem McLean, Va. and Bedford, Mass., April 29, 2025 - MITRE has announced the agenda and speakers for Breaking Barriers in Defense Acquisition, a two-day summit for senior defense officials,   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 30 -- Pegasystems, a software company empowering digital transformation, issued the following news release: * * * Pega to Present at Upcoming Investor Conference WALTHAM, Mass. - April 29, 2025 - Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), The Enterprise Transformation Company, today announced that Alan Trefler, founder and CEO, and Ken Stillwell, COO and CFO, Pega, will be presenting at the following upcoming investor conference: * 53rd Annual J.P. Morgan Global Techn  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 29 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Response to infection highlights the nervous system's surprising degrees of flexibility Whether you are a person about town or a worm in a dish, life can throw all kinds of circumstances your way. What you need is a nervous system flexible enough to cope. In a new study, MIT neuroscientists show how even a simple animal can repurpose brain circuits and the chemical signals, or "neu  more

SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts, April 30 -- Springfield College issued the following news: * * * Question and Answer Segment with Filmmaker Asad Butt By Emma Bynes and Ethan Banfield On April 21 in the Fuller Arts Center, the the Springfield College Department of Literature, Writing, and Journalism; Department of Business Management; Honors Program; Division of Campus Life and Inclusion; Doggett International Center; and the International Student Organization hosted a Film Screening and Q&A with  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 29 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Will the vegetables of the future be fortified using tiny needles? When farmers apply pesticides to their crops, 30 to 50 percent of the chemicals end up in the air or soil instead of on the plants. Now, a team of researchers from MIT and Singapore has developed a much more precise way to deliver substances to plants: tiny needles made of silk. In a study published today in Natur  more