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New England schools ranked among the best in the nation in a new ranking of U.S. colleges released Monday. Harvard University in Massachusetts was again second on the list of the best national universities compiled by U.S. News & World Report, trailing only Princeton University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked fourth, Connecticut’s Yale University was fourth, New Hampshire’s...

The Memphis Grizzlies on Friday hired Sonia Raman as an assistant coach. She replaces Niele Ivey, who was hired by Notre Dame in April. Raman spent the past 12 seasons as women’s basketball coach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she reached the NCAA Tournament twice. The Engineers went 91-45 over her final five seasons. She started coaching as an...

Perry Russom interviews Dr. Michael Hecht of MIT. They discuss the Moxie Project on board the Mars rover Perseverance, which Hecht is the principal investigator on. He also weighs in on when we could see humans on Mars.

A new, reusable, silicone alternative to N95 masks developed by MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital is getting attention around the world.

A new, reusable, silicone alternative to N95 masks developed by MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital is getting attention around the world.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the shortage of N95 respirator masks presented a dire situation for the healthcare and frontline workers who needed them most. Essential workers who relied on N95 masks had no choice but to wear what were meant to be disposable N95 masks for weeks at a time. Some started disinfecting the masks to be...

A federal hearing which asks for a temporary restraining order to keep Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from barring international students living in the country from being deported had been put off until Friday. Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Northeastern and Georgetown University are all a part of the lawsuit that is pushing back against...

More of the nation’s top colleges are joining forces to sue the federal government over its plan from having immigration officials force international students out of the country.

Northeastern University announced Wednesday afternoon that it would join Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in filing a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over new rules barring international students from living in the country while taking online courses. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, asks...

The only undergraduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who will be invited back to campus this fall are seniors, according to the university’s plan for the coronavirus pandemic and the upcoming semester. Other students can apply for “special consideration housing” on a case-by-case basis, including for visa issues, according to the MIT plan posted to an FAQ...

The number of both cases and deaths of the new coronavirus may actually be much higher than what’s been reported by authorities so far, according to new a study out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Researchers at MIT’s Sloan School of Management used a epidemiologist model for infectious diseases to estimate the spread of the coronavirus in 84...

A Roman Catholic chaplain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has resigned at the request of the archdiocese after sending an email suggesting that the killing of George Floyd was not an act of racism and saying that Floyd “had not lived a virtuous life.” The Archdiocese of Boston asked the Rev. Daniel Patrick Moloney to step down June 9…

The Archdiocese of Boston asked the chaplain at MIT to step down after sending an email to the school’s Catholic community with remarks about George Floyd.

William McRaven, the retired U.S. Navy admiral who directed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, told members of MIT’s graduating class Friday that they are the “real heroes” who will save the world from pandemics, war, climate change, poverty and racism. McRaven, who delivered his address online to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said he grew up idolizing...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology student Jessica Hendrickson is a master’s student in science writing. In her video diary she offers her thoughts on why she thinks the pandemic has changed the way people talk about science.

Steven Truong is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying biological engineering and creative writing. Since moving to remote learning he says one challenge he has had is helping his mother with unemployment paperwork.

So many people are trying desperately to find a vaccine for COVID-19, including a student at MIT.

The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, along with researchers at Harvard University and MIT launched a new program Friday to test residents and staff at seven nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The “surveillance testing” will allow researchers to hopefully get ahead of a possible COVID 19 outbreak.

The six-foot separation recommendation may not be sufficient in preventing the spread of coronavirus, says a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. Local and federal officials have asked residents to practice social distancing and stay six feet away from other people. But Lydia Bourouiba, an associate professor at MIT who studies the interface of fluid dynamics and epidemiology, published an article...

Harvard University on Tuesday said it would move to remote instruction and ask students not to return from spring break later this month amid the global outbreak of the new coronavirus. MIT announced a similar step hours later.