BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 4 -- Boston University's Wheelock College of Education and Human Development issued the following news: * * * Collegial Conversations: A Student-Driven Curriculum for Adult Learners A Q&A reflecting on the importance of a learning experience that evolves to meet the student needs By Jay Halfond Adam Bush is co-founder and current president of College Unbound, a nonprofit educational institution that serves adult learners. Founded a decade ago in Providence, Rho  more

DENVER, Colorado, April 4 -- The Colorado Secretary of State issued the following news release on April 3, 2025: * * * Colorado Joins Multi-State Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration Executive Order on Elections Denver, April 3, 2025 - Today Colorado joined 18 states in challenging the Trump administration's Executive Order on elections. The lawsuit was filed this afternoon in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and names President Trump, the U.S. Election A  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 4 -- Boston University issued the following news: * * * ENG Students Mentor BU Academy and Match Charter School High Schoolers Heading to Robotics Competition Students learn STEM skills through fun competition By Patrick Kennedy Toiling nearly every day after school for two months, a team of 20 high schoolers from Boston University Academy (BUA) and Boston's Match Charter High School have been building a robot named Beluga in a workshop at BU's College of Engin  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 4 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on April 3, 2025: * * * Engineers develop a way to mass manufacture nanoparticles that deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors Scaling up nanoparticle production could help scientists test new cancer treatments. By Anne Trafton, MIT News Polymer-coated nanoparticles loaded with therapeutic drugs show significant promise for cancer treatment, including ovarian cancer. These particles can   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 3 [Category: BizEnergy] -- G.E. Vernova, an energy company, posted the following news release: * * * GE Vernova wind turbines power the start of operations for largest onshore wind farm in Japan, located in Fukushima TOKYO, Japan (April 3, 2025) \- GE Vernova's Onshore Wind business announced today that the Abukuma wind farm has begun producing power after reaching its Commercial Operation Date (COD). The 147 MW wind farm is powered by 46 3.2 MW-103m* onshore w  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 3 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Healey-Driscoll Administration Testifies in Support of Proposals to Improve Education and Transportation Across Massachusetts Boston -- The Healey-Driscoll Administration today testified in support of Governor Maura Healey's Fiscal Year 2024 Fair Share Surplus Supplemental Budget, which proposes historic investments in education and transportation. The $1.3 billion proposal would sup  more

ROLLA, Missouri, April 4 -- Missouri University of Science and Technology issued the following news: * * * Missouri Protoplex partners with Solvus Global Solvus Global, a leader in advanced manufacturing headquartered in Massachusetts, has become the first major company to partner with the Missouri Protoplex at Missouri S&T. The company signed a lease Wednesday, April 2, at the S&T campus to establish an additional facility in Rolla. The mission of the Protoplex, which is set to open in spr  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 4 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on April 3, 2025: * * * MIT Solve announces 2025 Global Challenges Leading social impact platform seeks tech innovators tackling global challenges in climate, health, learning, economic prosperity, and more. MIT Solve has launched its 2025 Global Challenges, calling on innovators worldwide to submit transformative, tech-driven solutions to some of the planet's most pressing and persistent  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 3 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on April 2, 2025: * * * MIT welcomes 2025 Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellow Jess Speedie The fellowship supports research contributing to the field of planetary science and astronomy. By Paige Colley, EAPS The MIT School of Science welcomes Jess Speedie, one of eight recipients of the 2025 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. The announcement was made March 27 by the Heising-Simons Foundat  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 3 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble SPROUT, developed by Lincoln Laboratory and University of Notre Dame researchers, is a vine robot capable of navigating under collapsed structures. By Haley Wahl, MIT Lincoln Laboratory When major disasters hit and structures collapse, people can become trapped under rubble. Extricating victims from these hazardou  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 3 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Looking under the hood at the brain's language system Associate Professor Evelina Fedorenko is working to decipher the internal structure and functions of the brain's language-processing machinery. By Anne Trafton, MIT News As a young girl growing up in the former Soviet Union, Evelina Fedorenko PhD '07 studied several languages, including English, as her mother hoped that it woul  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 3 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Researchers teach LLMs to solve complex planning challenges This new framework leverages a model's reasoning abilities to create a "smart assistant" that finds the optimal solution to multistep problems. By Adam Zewe, MIT News Imagine a coffee company trying to optimize its supply chain. The company sources beans from three suppliers, roasts them at two facilities into either dark  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 3 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Vana is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data More than 1 million people are contributing their data to Vana's decentralized network, which started as an MIT class project. By Zach Winn, MIT News In February 2024, Reddit struck a $60 million deal with Google to let the search giant use data on the platform to train its artificial intelligence models. Not  more

SOUTH HADLEY, Massachusetts, April 4 -- Mount Holyoke College issued the following news: * * * Creativity in action with Projects for Peace Mount Holyoke senior Qiao Se Ong '25 is among the 2025 cohort for Projects for Peace. Her project, based in Colombia, aims to address the impact of dam construction on local communities through creative workshops and collaborations with local artists. Qiao Se Ong '25, a double major in sociology and film studies, has always been attracted to culture in a  more

WESTON, Massachusetts, April 4 -- Regis College issued the following news: * * * Regis Extends Partnership Tuition Discounts to Displaced Federal Employees and their Families Following news that potentially thousands of federal employees' positions will be terminated, Regis College is extending an existing partnership with the federal government to provide displaced federal employees and their families with tuition discounts. Prior to this announcement, only active federal government employee  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 4 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on April 3, 2025: * * * Surprise discovery could lead to improved catalysts for industrial reactions Upending a long-held supposition, MIT researchers find a common catalyst works by cycling between two different forms. By David L. Chandler, MIT News The process of catalysis -- in which a material speeds up a chemical reaction -- is crucial to the production of many of the chemicals use  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 4 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on April 3, 2025: * * * Tabletop factory-in-a-box makes hands-on manufacturing education more accessible Inaugural cohort of Tecnologico de Monterrey undergraduates participate in immersive practicum at MIT featuring desktop fiber-extrusion devices, or FrEDs. By Stefanie Koperniak, MIT.nano For over a decade, through a collaboration managed by MIT.nano, MIT and Tecnologico de Monterrey (  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 4 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on April 3, 2025: * * * Taking the "training wheels" off clean energy At the 2025 MIT Energy Conference, energy leaders from around the world discussed how to make green technologies competitive with fossil fuels. By Calvin Hennick, MIT Energy Initiative Renewable power sources have seen unprecedented levels of investment in recent years. But with political uncertainty clouding the futu  more